Three Security Guards Stand and Watch Several Teens Knock a Girl Unconcious
From Good Old Komo News, with video.
Luckily she wasn't seriously injured.SEATTLE (AP) - A 15-year-old girl who was badly beaten and robbed in a Seattle bus tunnel as three unarmed security guards looked on told investigators that she thought the men would protect her.
The statements were revealed in court papers filed Wednesday against the teen girl accused of attacking her and the three young men accused of stealing her purse, phone and iPod. The four were all charged with first-degree robbery.
The victim told a King County sheriff's detective that the group followed her from a nearby department store into the bus tunnel at Westlake Station on Jan. 28, and she deliberately stood next to the three guards.
The guards didn't intervene, though. They have standing orders to "observe and report," so they called police but did nothing else as another 15-year-old girl punched and repeatedly kicked the victim in the head.
This quote really aggravates me, though:
Apparently now it is 'police action' to stop a group of people from attacking another person, and not simply being a decent person. And of course 'civilians' just can't handle it.King County Sheriff's Sgt. John Urquhart said the guards were right to follow their training.
"If you're a bank teller and you do something other than give them the money, you're going to get fired," Urquhart said. "We don't expect civilians to take police action. In this case, it was a violent fight, and they were outnumbered by this pack of people 3-to-1."
At least some officials have sense;
What a pathetic excuse for 'security guards', and what stupid managers who drew up that security contract.Metro Transit General Manager Kevin Desmond and other King County officials were less forgiving.
"We are very disappointed in what people see in that video," Desmond said. "It was absolutely unacceptable. I know the Olympic Security folks were also disappointed in the response, but again, the employees were following the letter of the agreement."
Metro Transit contracts with the King County Sheriff's Office for 68 police officers, and supplements that force with 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.
So I guess what I'm asking is; what do you guys think the 'guards' should have done, and how should all people react to stuff like this?
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