That’s ridiculous. He should also be charged with the deaths. If you can’t do the job you are paid for, you should quit. So what if he was called racist. Many lives could have been saved. If he wasn’t trouble, he’d be criticized but big deal.
At least he was doing part of his job. Had he seen a suspicious white man, he'd have intervened.
I think it is easy to criticize, but I think that when your life would be made over because you made a mistake, with the best of intentions, most of us would be hesitant as well.
Ate you so pure hearted that you are willing spend the rest of your life in prison for being suspicious of a non white person, but were wrong?
I doubt that, like most people, they would do anything if it means criminal charges for making a mistake.
Charging him with the deaths is ridiculous.
“So what, big deal” says anonymous guy on couch.
“If you can’t do the job you are paid for, you should quit. “
No one takes “mall cops” seriously. They’re not decoration, exactly, but more like hall monitors in grade school. If something happens, they call the real cops. If you see an older man as a security cop, he isn’t usually that much more proficient than your typical 18-year-old. He’s somebody who couldn’t get a better job.
I worked for Honeywell at a defense plant of over a million square feet. We had, I want to say, Guard’s Mark for Security. Snappy uniform. Typically, in their twenties. About three o’clock in the morning a husband showed up in the lobby with a pump 12 Guage. His wife was at that moment bumping uglies with a coworker in a van outside. He racked a round into the gun and said to the guard, “Where’s Lola?” The guard said, “Beam 32 J.” He didn’t even lie. My takeaway from this is a security guard without a gun is only good for giving directions. (He hotfooted it to another plant and called the sheriff and deputies arrested the cockled husband. The company fired both wife and coworker, a first for that timeframe. Normally, they would only fire the woman.)