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From the article: “civilian guards provided by Olympic Security Services Inc. of Tukwila, Wash. All three of the guards involved are Olympic employees.

The guards’ duties include helping customers and reporting suspicious objects, disruptive behavior and equipment problems.”

I bring this up because I wouldn’t have expected the ‘guards’ to do anything. I remember seeing ads for these jobs and, as above, they are there mostly to help passengers get on the right bus, as a visual deterrent to yutes, and calling HQ if something goes wrong with the equipment. I lived in Seattle for 5 years and took public transit all the time; I saw these people ignore all kinds of things. There’s really nothing much that they are empowered to do.

I don’t blame an unarmed, untrained person from failing to get involved in an altercation. You don’t know if someone is going to start on you or pull a weapon.

That said, it is too bad, since there was a group of them, they didn’t do something to assist this girl. That would have been the right thing to do, to hell with the job description. Where was their basic human decency?

Maybe protecting the citizenry at transit stations would be a good job for police recruits and not some shlub with no sense of morality or duty.