“Three paid uniformed security guards moving in between the victim and the attacker is not butting in and starting a general fight.”
Oh, this conversation has gone way beyond that. The subject was one person, alone, intervening in this fight with 15 gangbangers ready to jump in.
And as Shore Patrol, it was your job and duty to get involved. You would at least know *you* were on the right side.
People have been jumping on me because I said I wasn’t prepared to get killed in a fight that I didn’t even have a scorecard for.
Specking as a Security guard I’ll tell you this. Most Security out there is very limited in what they are and are not aloud to do, as far as what there companies, clients, City and or Sate allow them to do! They are not cops and most often have fewer rights to help people then a privet citizen while on duty. Less they want to spend jail and or law suit time on there hands. It seems they were doing the job as they were allowed to do it. I bet if they were not not afraid of legal problems and given the tools (Mace, Baton and maybe a Gun) to defend them self’s they would have and helped a young lady out. But sadly most security officers out there are only able to OBSERVAT and REOPRT thanks to the law suits of the self righteous out there. I am an armed commissioned security officer in the sate of TEXAS and would have had the tools and training to stop what had happened. Sadly even in my Sate there are far less Commissioned security officers then there is the type of security officers that had to stand there and watch what happened that day. If you want to talk big talk and walk big walk that’s fine but you better learn the laws of your sate and if you need help and see a security officer that does not have a gun on his or her hip yell help and keep running because he or she can not help you.