What to Know
- Officer Ericson Harrell was placed on administrative duty with pay pending and internal review, North Miami Beach Police officials confirmed
- he move was made following multiple Facebook posts under an account with his name that questioned the narrative of the Feb. 14 shooting
A North Miami Beach Police officer has been reassigned after posts on Facebook appeared to question whether the Parkland school shooting was a hoax.
Officer Ericson Harrell was placed on administrative duty with pay pending and internal review, North Miami Beach Police officials confirmed Monday.
The move was made following multiple Facebook posts under an account with his name that questioned the narrative of the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that claimed 17 lives.
"ALL PAID ACTORS / ACTRESSES!! #2NDAMENDMENT #SHALLNOTBEINFRINGED #ARMOURTEACHERS" read a March 22 post that accompanied a NBC News story about some of the shooting survivors on the Cover of Time magazine.
"What proof do you have? What evidence do you have, that anyone was killed other than #MSM accounts, alleged witnesses and a couple of funeral processions? #StonemanDouglas #SandyHook" read another post from March 29.
On Sunday, the Facebook account seemed to confirm that Harrell was facing discipline.
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"Well, if you haven't heard already, I'll be standing in front of the man because of my Questioning the the Parkland narrative!!" the post read.
The father of Cameron Kasky, one of the students who was on the Time cover, said he was friends Harrell when Harrell was the leader in his police academy class in 1998.
"I am disappointed that my old friend has fallen into this conspiracy theory subculture,” Jeff Kasky told the Sun Sentinel. "He is smarter than that, and he knows how to reach me if he wants to talk to confirm that my child is indeed a real person and not a paid actor."
