“It wasn’t a “gang fight” it was a beat down of a victim, with the attackers pals standing lookout.”
It was fifteen thugz who may or may not have been seriously armed. The “guards” weren’t cops and I’m sure if they had weighed in - which would have meant busting heads and probably escalating the fight - they would have gotten fired and sued by the underage (?) punks’ parents.
You forget what the mentality of some of those people is. They’d have your name and address and work schedule before the end of the day and be waiting outside your home.
Except maybe in Texas the deck is stacked against anyone who would jump into a fight that didn’t involve them.
That’s a nice list of excuses.
A MAN would stop the head-stomping attack, or die trying. Even a man in a wheelchair.
Wouldn't have to -- they could have simply positioned themselves between the girl and her attacker. And then at worst they too would have been beaten up, or beaten in place of the girl.
Years back I was at a restaurant with my family and parents, and a very large muscular man came in, grabbed a waitress, and carried her out the door, slamming her into a wall.
I'm 5'5, fat, out of shape, untrained and unarmed. But I jumped up and ran out the door after him -- no way I'm the bystander who lets a guy beat the crap out of a girl. The guy could have snapped me like a twig.
One other guy ran out after me -- the manager of the restaurant. After a little while, a bunch of others came out.
The manager stood and talked to the guy to keep him from driving off in his van (he threw the girl in the van), I stood right there quietly. Then the attacker punched the manager, who went down, and started kicking him.
And I stepped in between the attacker and the manager, with my back to the attacker, shouting "stop". And the guy did stop. He could have punched me in the back, could have had a knife, but again, I'm not the guy who is going to stand there and watch a man get kicked in the face, and I figured my legs could take a kick more than a head. I think it helped that by that time, half the restaurant was standing and watching, but it would have been nice for a couple more of the men to step in. Eventually the police showed up.
So I KNOW what I would do if I saw someone being attacked, and knowing how ill-equipped I am, I have no patience at all for trained security guards who would not put their own lives in danger for another person.