Three weeks ago the media released a video of a 15 year old girl in Seattle, Washington being jumped by two other girls. As the story goes, the girl was in a Seattle subway station and was being approached by two girls. She walked over to three security station guards to seemingly get away from the two girls who were pursuing her. The guards provided her no refuge and she was attacked anyway while the security station guards were standing right there. She fell to the ground, was kicked to in the head and her purse, iPod, and cell phone were are stolen–again, as the three security station guards stood by and did….absolutely nothing.
This latest incident seems like a page out of my book, “Retaliation” or even a testimony from my documentary film, “Can She Be Saved?” The youth that I interact with continue to tell me that fights jump off with adults standing there doing absolutely nothing. I continue to hear that between youth, you cannot get a fair one –a one on one if you will. There has to be 2 or more people against 1. That’s just how it goes down. Growing up I always thought it was punkish for a group of people to jump one person. I thought it punkish because if you could really handle yours why do you need a crew to fight somebody?
My girls from Syracuse who are featured in my film, Can She Be Saved? really hipped me to the adults who stand by and encourage fights or do nothing. In this case in Seattle, I can’t understand how “security” is in a person’s title and when they saw that this 15 year old girl was being attacked and robbed, they felt that the subway station was still SECURE???? I don’t get it.
In doing research on the Seattle Subway station security policies, I come across some information which says that they are not supposed to break up fights…. Yeah, I can’t quote it, yet, but that’s the policy information that I’ve come across. What’s the point of calling them security guards if they can’t make sure that the subway station is secure. If all they are going to do is stand around, let’s call them Subway station Statues. I think that’s way more applicable.
What should have happened in Seattle? Those three guards should have prevented the girl from getting robbed and if the fight was started, they should have broken it up. If there is any policy that prevents a security guard from breaking a fight, the policy needs to be rewritten. Furthermore, the parents of the 15 year old should be suing the Seattle Metro Station because the girl could not be safe while waiting for a train. As far as public safety goes, we do have a reasonably belief that we are not going to be attacked when we are standing next to three security guards who work for the subway. I smell lawsuit. A big one.
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