Best Buy Security Guard Fired after Tackling Suspect Who Fled from Deputies in Roseville

fox40.com ^ | Updated at 09:35PM, January 26, 2019 | by Charmaine Nero

[Red Badger]

Timothy Trujillo, 35, faces a host of charges, including burglary (in Nevada, Placer County and Sacramento) possession of methamphetamine and assaulting and resisting a peace officer.

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Charmaine Nero @CNeroTV

#NEW: A security guard at Best Buy is seen in surveillance - tackling a suspect who punched a deputy while resisting arrest at this Roseville shopping center. The man was later arrested - but the security guard was fired for violating company policy. @FOX40 45 10:35 PM - Jan 26, 2019 · Rocklin, CA

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[SkyDancer]

Then what is the purpose of having a security guard?

[PGR88]

My nephew worked at a Dicks Sporting Goods. They told their staff they were in NO WAY allowed to approach or interfere with shoplifters. Identify the perp, stand back, and call the security or mall police.

He said that if the local feral youth were at all organized or intelligent, they could clean out a Dicks in 3 minutes

[Lurkinanloomin]

“He started running past me and I thought I was doing the right thing by stopping him,” Tyler added.
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You were doing the right thing.
The company you worked for didn’t.

[Moonman62]

Timothy Trujillo, 35, faces a host of charges,

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Lucky for him, he’s in a sanctuary state.

[thefactor]

CYA by employers. I’m fine with it. This is usually focused on thieves. The cost of the stolen goods costs way less than getting sued. This guy should go to college and never look back. Get a LEO job.

[Moonman62]

With lawsuits the way they are, I don’t think they have much of a choice.

[lepton]

The store policy clearly doesn’t cover this, unless there is some sort of addendum beyond the normal stated one.

[Obadiah]

I understand the strong human urge to confront injustice (theft), but if the employer has advised you not to pursue anyone, and they don’t care, I sure as shootin’ ain’t going to risk my life pursuing some undocumented Democrat.

[Bigtigermike]

What a bunch of idiots Best Buy is! I can understand liability but the criminal was engaging in violent behavior and could have harmed more innocent people in the parking lot. If a customer in parking lot got killed and the family found out that Best Buy wants it’s employees to stand there and do nothing for risk of losing their job then that’s a lawsuit coming.

[thefactor]

To discourage SOME shoplifters. And when shoplifters do strike, the guard’s job is to observe and report only.

[albie]

Stop! Or I’ll yell stop again!!

[ImpBill]

The ex-employee was also an Army Veteran. While understanding the the company’s policy in this litigious culture, I can’t agree with the management in not allowing an exception. Especially in that Tyler had been immersed in the training which emphasized “duty, honor, country”. I believe his action was pretty instinctive.

I wish Tyler well in obtaining his college degree and for a great and full life to come.

Thanks for your service, brother!

[SkyDancer]

Then what is the purpose of having a security guard?

[billorites]

"Then what is the purpose of having a security guard?"

To prevent you from leaving without buying an extended warrantee.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The store I work at has the same policy.
Although when one of our employees assisted law enforcement with a particularly uncooperative individual he did not get fired.

[trebb]

Reminds me of the commercials where a bank security guard says he’s just there to notify folks there’s a bank robbery - oh, by the way, there’s a bank robbery happening....

[KTM rider]

I know a guy who (in 1986) confronted two men who cut through the fence at a skunkworks connected defense contractor Marquardt and were stealing computers and classified software....He got beat up bad but delayed their escape until LAPD arrived.

he got some short term disability to recover but Marquardt fired him for "confronting". He said he wouldnt have tried to stop them but he knew they had sensitive software involving military aircraft, not just any loot

immediately after recovering Hughes Aircraft rocket engine plant hired him in at the rank of Seargent

[Hulka]

Thought experiment: The bad guy killed the deputy and running away. The security guard stops the bad guy from escaping.

Should he be fired or not?

[Doogle]

What was Tyler doing outside....was he on his way to work?...or leaving it?...sounds to me he was off the clock...