Posted on 09/04/2020 11:38:14 AM PDT by lowbridge
Private security guards hired to watch over a Seattle park overtaken by protesters left during their first shift after they were threatened and harassed.
The two armed guards from Jaguar Security Firm and owner Ricky McGhee were confronted Tuesday night by a group of protesters in Cal Anderson Park, some armed with “poles and sticks,” McGhee told Fox News.
“As soon as we entered that park, they started verbally attacking us … calling us all kinds of names like ‘sellouts’ and [telling us] what they would do to us,” McGhee said.
The security team had been hired by the city to keep people out of the park from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. after it had been occupied by protesters throughout August.
The mob shined bright lights at McGhee and his employees, making it hard for them to make out their identities, he said.
McGhee said his armed guards were “seasoned” but “not trying to go to jail” — so he called police to intervene.
“These people that are doing that stuff, they’re putting themselves in danger,” he said. “We could have engaged right when they put those lights in our eyes and they had those weapons in their hands.”
Rachel Schulkin, a spokeswoman for Seattle Parks and Recreation, said the city is working with Jaguar on a “night-by-night” basis and assesses the need for security at the park each day.
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Hire the Hells Angels.
Recall Durkan.
Why would a city hire security guards to do this while they have police officers getting paid?
Who thought it was a good idea to hire private security to protect Seattle parks? If the peaceful rioters won’t listen to the police, they sure as heck won’t listen to private security guards.
Those security guys are lucky they were able to get out of there without getting hurt, or having to use their sidearms.
Today’s Hell’s Angels aren’t like Sonny Barger’s Hell’s Angels............
Poke a fork into Seattle; it’s done.
Maybe we need an enforcement arm with a “00” license to kill designation. A group of calm professionals who know how to restrain themselves in difficult situations — but, if you deserve it, they’ll just shoot you.
Because Seattle cops are quitting their jobs.
Kyle would know how to deal with this problem...
How so? I'm not being argumentative, just truly interested.
If the mayor and city council of Seattle were serious about policing parks they’d hire the Teletubbies to walk around wishing everyone well.
Today’s Hell’s Angels are more educated, even an MBA, more likely to have a family and a full time job and be more peaceful and brand conscious. Even their logo is trade marked!
It might have been the thought in city hall that, ok, long-haired SGs are not so much a trigger, let's use them to keep the park clear. But standing on the corner protecting a liquor store and high-fiving the wierdos is a bit different than standing guard over a park and park kitchen house that the vagrants have claimed ownership of. (they broke into the kitchen building a few weeks ago because it has electricity, running water and a stove and set up an encampment around it).
Seattle has sent social workers into the previous and current camp numerous times with offers to put these folks up in a hotel for a week while they find suitable housing for them and enroll them in drug diversion programs, health and mental care, etc. The campers flat-out reject these offers of aid. As determined as the city is to remove them, they are equally determined to maintain their encampment. They are also demanding free cigarettes, free food, free drugs and needle exchanges and an on-call medic for overdoses. Call it Chop2 except without a cause.
I say the safest approach is to borrow some darts from the local zoo and tuck the lot safely into a high security mental facility before they wake up. Sort them out from there. Otherwise, the removals will be neverending and it's going to be a violent sh..show each time that's not going to help anyone. I doubt anyone has gone to a judge about the idea, tho. For a town that cries for the police to be replaced by mental health workers, they are reticent to actually make that happen with a group that desperately needs immediate intervention.
The job of a security guard is to observe and report. They're not supposed to do hands-on intervention.
Turn the sprinklers on from dusk until dawn.
social workers wouldn’t have lasted the first five minutes ...
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