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BSO Deputy Fired After Parkland Shooting Will Get His Job Back

WLRN 91.3 FM | By Devoun Cetoute

Published May 14, 2020 at 6:18 AM EDT

Jess Shanahan, 17, puts her arm around her friend, Lauryn Augustyne, 19, as they visit a makeshift memorial outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday, February 14, 2020 during the two year anniversary of the Parkland shooting.

The Broward Sheriff’s Office sergeant who was the first supervisor to respond to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and lost his job after it was found he hid behind his car as the first shots rang out, will be reinstated, awarded full back pay and get back his seniority, the BSO Deputies Association said Wednesday.

Sgt. Brian Miller was one of the four deputies who were terminated because of a “neglect of duty” in the Feb. 14, 2018, Parkland shooting, which killed 17 students and faculty members and injured another 17.

Miller, 57, was paid $138,410.25 in 2017, according to the Sun-Sentinel. The BSO veteran had challenged the decision with union backing. An arbitration ruling found “BSO violated Sgt. Brian Miller’s constitutional due process rights and improperly terminated him,” the union said.

Read more at our news partner the Miami Herald.