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Trump blasts deputy who fails to face school mass murderer Diabetes heart disease danger

- BY CHRISTOPHE­R BUCKTIN US Editor in Parkland, Florida chris.bucktin@mirror.co.uk

Scot Peterson failed to act DONALD Trump branded an armed policeman who failed to confront the Florida school shooter a “coward”.

Scot Peterson, 54, has quit his role as deputy sheriff rather than be suspended for failing to act.

President Trump said: “When it came time to get in there to do something, he didn’t have the courage or something happened. Somebody is outside, they’re trained, they didn’t Donald Trump react properly under pressure, or they were a coward.”

Video shows school resource officer Peterson outside during the attack by Nikolas Cruz, 19, who killed 17 on February 14 at DEVELOPING type 2 diabetes early in life increases your risk of death linked to heart disease by 60 per cent.

Type 2 was once considered a condition of the elderly but the obesity epidemic has led to a surge in cases in young adults and even children.

Research on 744,000 sufferers over 15 years to 2011 found the average diagnosis age was 59 and there were 115,363 deaths during the period. The risk of an early Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida.

Peterson lingered there for at least four minutes, said Sheriff Scott Israel.

Asked what he should have done, he replied: “Went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer.”

Two other deputies are on restricted duty pending probes. death from any cause surged 30 per cent for those diagnosed 10 years earlier and there was a 60 per cent higher risk of death linked to cardiovasc­ular disease.

The Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia, led the study. They wrote: “However, those with an early diagnosis were less likely to die from cancer. The team put this down to “more frequent contact with the health system” helping early diagnosis.

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