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Posted on 11/23/2014 9:39:53 AM PST by blam
Claire Ward, VICE News
November 22, 2014
Business owners in the St. Louis, Missouri area have hired private military contractors to transport guns and gold, fearing their shops will be targeted by looters if a grand jury does not indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in the St. Louis County suburb of Ferguson.
"There's a lot of people that brought in a lot of money to have people secure their assets," said Stephen King, owner of Metro Shooting Supplies gun shop, a 15-minute drive from Ferguson. "Some of those people spent $10 an hour on security guards and some people have $1,000 a day private contractors."
King confirmed that gun shops in the area are hiring private military contractors to escort the transport of their guns to secure locations. A private military contractor who spoke to VICE News on condition of anonymity said that more than 300 private military contractors, or PMCs, have been contracted for work in direct response to Ferguson security concerns.
Jared Ogden, director of operations for Asymmetric Solutions, a private military contractor staffed by former special operations forces told VICE News his company was hired by businesses to transport "St. Louis-based company assets."
"We've got our hands in a bunch things" related to security in the Ferguson area, said Ogden, a former Navy SEAL who was featured on the National Geographic reality program, Survival Alaska.
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Me too.
Won't stop the post announcement looting.
now that police mostly target assets for enforcement, it makes sense that the market needs non police to actually *protect* assets.
And in the end, if all costs of security, destruction of property, and wasted time were added up, it would be enough to put all the black kids of Ferguson through decent schools.
If they wanted to go.
On the other side, you have...the thugs.
Caught in the middle are the various innocent parties who would all probably be a whole lot better off if both groups of thugs managed to wipe each other out in the course of this little dispute hence my inability to find a side to root for.
Oh look, those adorable children took the rings off their middle fingers to be used to fix their teeth! Poor kids!
Security Guard Salary (United States)
The average wage for a Security Guard is $10.26 per hour.
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Security_Guard/Hourly_Rate
They should hire illegals and um pay 8.50. That way they can save about 2 bucks.
A win win.
Maybe, but I doubt there was much of anything in that place to be worth risking a major heist, even before the looting started-and today, you probably couldn’t even find enough food for a week, never mind anything worth fencing-by now the place has been burned and looted into oblivion...
FWIW, last week there was a list of locations all over the country where protests were planned the day of or the day after the decision. One of them was an area near St Louis that was not in the ‘hood. There were others in target-rich areas for looters.
That, in my opinion is pretty dumb-planning “protests” outside the area where this started, and using those protests provide cover for looting or any other theft is not going to go unnoticed by any law enforcement officials with a brain-they’ll have the area watched/guarded to prevent just such a thing-to not do so would be very poor risk management, affect the bottom lines of local businesses and produce lawsuits...
I find it odd as well that this is happening now. Anyone who had gold or a gun shop surely made plans and took action months ago.
Several Freepers took exception to that belief, stating that all it did was hurt the businesses. But here they are, doing something similar. It's a bad situation regardless for local businesses.
may => made (I wish FR had an edit function that allowed a post to modified within a short time of being posted)
This is the sort of thing people do in 3rd world countries.
Please tell me you are joking.
LOL — well, there’s that too...
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