Dad Of Parkland Shooting Victim Supports Trump At RNC

After the Democratic National Convention featured Parkland dad Fred Guttenberg, the Republican National Convention also featured a father of one of the victims of the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Andrew Pollack gave a speech at the RNC slamming Democrats.

Pollack recalled how his daughter Meadow was a senior and had a bright future until the shooter killed 14 students and three school employees. “After she was shot and on the floor, she crawled over to another student, a freshman girl, to protect her. She draped her body over her. And then the scumbag gunman shot Meadow five more times, killing Meadow and the girl she was shielding,” Pollack noted.

He then went on to say that the school shooter had given clear warning signs, but Pollack blamed the liberal school policies for letting the killer follow through on his repeated threats.

“After my daughter's murder, the media didn't seem interested in the facts. So I found them myself. I learned that gun control laws didn't fail my daughter. People did. The gunman had threatened to kill his classmates before; he had threatened to rape them; he had threatened to shoot up the school,” Pollack said. “Every red flag you can imagine. But the school didn’t just miss these red flags — they knowingly ignored them.

“Far-left Democrats in our school district made this shooting possible because they implemented something they called ‘restorative justice,’” he continued.

According to the Associated Press, “restorative” discipline was meant to keep kids in the classroom. The 2014 policy advised that should only suspend, expel or report students to police as a last resort. The recommendation was intended to address racial disparities in discipline rates for students of color, who were three times more likely to be disciplined than their white peers.

The Trump Administration dropped the policy in December 2018.

“I was just fine with the old approach to discipline and safety — it was called discipline and safety. But the Obama-Biden administration took Parkland’s bad policies and forced them into schools across America,” Pollack said.

While Pollack supports Trump, even meeting with him in the Oval Office after the shooting, many of the survivors themselves do not.

David Hogg, a survivor and March For Our Lives founder, didn’t directly address Pollack’s speech. However, he tweeted, “Donald Trump never even came to Parkland.”

Hogg added a retweet that stated Trump spent half an hour at a nearby hospital and then left for a party at Mar-A-Lago.