Father confronts former watchman

Dad of slain Parkland student heckles former school security monitor

“I’m not through with you yet!” Andrew Pollack, the father of a slain high school student, used those words to taunt a former school watchman involved in the mass killing last February at Stoneman Douglas High School.

Pollack showed up Wednesday at a ballfield at Pine Trails Park in Parkland and heckled former school security monitor Andrew Medina, who had failed to confront a scrawny teen trudging onto the Stoneman Douglas campus carrying a rifle bag.

Pollack is suing Medina for negligence for his role in the 2018 massacre, which killed 17 people, including Pollack’s daughter, Meadow. She was a senior.

Medina recognized gunman Nikolas Cruz as a former student known as “Crazy Boy,” but did not stop Cruz or call for the lockdown of the school. The school district fired Medina and he now works as a coach for a Florida youth baseball team.

According to a complaint filed in Broward Circuit Court, Pollack came to the field and “harassed and threatened” Medina.

“Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am? I’m not through with you yet,” Pollack yelled, according to a motion filed in the civil case. Medina is pursuing a restraining order and is asking a judge to bar Pollack from sitting in on a deposition scheduled for later this month.

Pollack also allegedly called out to parents watching the practice: “How can you have this piece of s--- out here?” But told the South Florida Sun Sentinel he remained calm and wasn’t hostile.

“I had to see with my own eyes,

I can’t believe it, that parents would let that person be a role model to their kids. It’s just mindboggling,” Pollack said.

He said he was on another side of a fence and called Medina’s name. When he had Medina’s attention, Pollack said he said this: “I’ll see you. We’re not done.”

Pollack said he was referring to the upcoming deposition.

Someone summoned police to the ball field — an irony not lost on Pollack.

Medina files “a protection order on me,” Pollack said, “but for a kid with a rifle bag he doesn’t call police.”

Medina released a statement Thursday about the ballfield confrontation, saying: “I was extremely petrified, not only for myself but for the children and parents as well.”

He said he was “too fearful” after the ball practice to return home.

In the complaint, Medina’s lawyer wrote that Pollack has made other menacing statements toward Medina on Twitter and in the media and has been seen walking his dog near Medina’s house. He raised the possibility that Pollack could be committing a crime by harassing Medina, given that he’s a witness in Cruz’s murder trial.

“Mr. Medina is fearful of Mr. Pollack, and Mr. Pollack has been unable to control himself when it comes to Mr. Medina,” the lawyer wrote.

Pollack’s wife sent an email to the parents of the youth league baseball players late Wednesday, notifying them of Medina’s background. She included a 2017 school board report that found reason to believe Medina sexually harassed girls at the school.

Medina received a three-day suspension in that matter.