Officers Will Carry Rifles in Florida School District to ‘Meet Violence With Violence’

This still image shows a Brevard County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) resource deputy wearing new tactical gear. Courtesy of BCSO

A Florida sheriff is equipping school resource deputies with large rifles and “new style” tactical uniforms on school campuses in Brevard County following a school year that ended with the Uvalde mass shooting.

“You are not coming into my schools and killing our children,” Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said in an Aug. 9 video. “I firmly believe that if you do not meet violence with violence, you will be violently killed.”