Three Seattle bus guards watched brutal beating

[Liberal_in_LA]

Video here: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/02/15-year-old_girl_beaten_while.php

As the kid in the backwards baseball cap on the lower half of the screen plays lookout, another girl approaches. Despite the presence of the three grown men in clearly-marked security garb, the attacker launches herself at the victim, eventually wrestling her to the ground where she punches, kicks and stomps her face repeatedly.

The violent attack occurred on January 28th, and has led Metro Transit to review its policies regarding outsourced security guards. Which is probably a good idea, considering Transit General Manager Kevin Desmond told The Seattle Times that the hired help followed "the letter of the policy" while watching a kid get beat unconscious.

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Three Seattle bus guards watched brutal beating

SEATTLE (AP) — Three security guards watched a group of teens punch, kick and rob a 15-year-old girl in the downtown Seattle Metro bus tunnel without intervening.

Security video shows the guards call for help on their radios, but they don't go to the aid of the girl even as she is being kicked in the head.

A dispute involving a group of 10 teens apparently started inside a department store the evening of Jan. 28 and moved to the bus tunnel at Westlake Station, where the girl was attacked.

The King County sheriff's office tells KING-TV four suspects, ages 15 to 20, have been arrested in the investigation.

Metro Transit General Manager says it's revising its policy that guards only "observe and report" problems.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-02-10-guards-watch-beating_N.htm?csp=24&RM_Exclude=Juno

[ret5hd]

1. If they don't change the policy, they could at least stop calling them "guards".

[Winterblues]

2. Security Guards

Wonder what those words mean? :shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Meh.

:shrug:

[TwilightGardener]

4. Grown men (assuming they were) serving in a protective capacity who refused

to help a young girl being attacked--now that is the very meaning of "fucking useless".

[Echo In Light]

5. Sad

[virgogal]

6. If it was 10 to 3 maybe they were just trying to save their own skin,a fairly human reaction.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Three uniformed men against an unorganized group of teens -

there's no reason to think they would not have the upper hand. There is an intimidation factor when an unorganized group faces a smaller uniformed organized group.

They were, simply put, cowards.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Little appreciated fact- uniforms don't actually improve fighting ability.

Not that 10 against 3 is really a fight.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. Except that of that 10 there were likely 1 or 2 instigators, with the rest

just getting their licks in on an easy target. Three men standing against them and suddenly that 10 becomes 1 or 2 - the rest will back down. They go into it looking at a helpless girl, and find themselves confronted by 3 grown men instead. They will back down.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

12. Uh huh.

Maybe in the movies.

[Xithras]

7. Observe and Report is pretty standard for security guards.

I did a brief stint as a security guard as fill work during a brief period of unemployment about 15 years ago. Worst. Job. Ever.

They were really big on the whole "Observe & Report" thing, down to the point of making us sign waivers stating that the company wasn't responsible for compensating us for ANY injuries sustained by our intervention in ANY crime. We also had to sign an agreement stating that we would be fired for doing so. Our job was strictly to notify law enforcement and to act as a witness. No controntation, no intervention. If we saw someone breaking into the side of a building, we weren't even supposed to shine our flashlights at them.

[Blue_Tires]

8. they are just rental cops...what do you expect them to do?

actually exert themselves??

[virgogal]

14. Why should they get involved? They are getting shit pay and

shit benefits,if any, and zero respect for just going out and trying to earn a living.

They did what they are required to do----notify law enforcement.

[mzteris]

13. what about all the guards

who do GOOD THINGS?

Why doesn't anyone ever post about them, huh? Why? Because DU'ers HATE "bus guards" THAT's WHY! Hmmmph!



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