But what about the "secure" part? Isn't a security service supposed to, I don't know...secure something? I'm curious to see the definition of "secure" in Olympic Security Service's contract with their employees. If you haven't heard of or seen the video leaking all over youtube, Facebook, and news websites...well, I'm glad you've emerged from underneath your rock. The Feb. 10th Seattle bus tunnel security camera shows footage of a brutal fight between two 15 year-old girls. I know, I know- kids are kicking each other's asses all the time. Aside from the huge and underestimated storm of youth bullying, -which we'll get into later- here's the kick of this video: three Olympic security officers stand there watching, or in their language, "observing and reporting", the fight. No effort is made to separate these two kids while one girl kicks and stomps on the other girl's head about seven times, after continuous blows to the face, all of this rendering her unconscious. The dirt on the street (rather what was reported from the victim and witnesses) was that she knew she was going to be "jumped" and stayed around security guards assuming they would mediate the situation to some degree. But after the attack and apparent robbery from the assailant's crew, Olympic security defended their employees by saying their job is to observe and report, and that's what they did. As they are an unarmed security force, it would be safer for them to stay out of it. Good thing Seattle is looking out for the safety of grown-ass men rather than the local children.
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Granted, I cannot possibly imagine how these security workers could stand idly by and do nothing to help this girl. It should be against their nature as feeling humans. But I do think that they should not be the principal targets of the blame. I believe that the Olympic Security Services is really at the heart of the problem. I would equate it to false advertising… this girl feared for her safety and sought the aid of “Security Guards”… actually seems like a very intelligent thing to do. They should, by definition, be able to help her. But clearly they have not been given the training, the resources, or even the “permission” to help. It seems like they just hired some random people who needed some extra cash to wear a uniform and stand in a certain location… like Security Guard actors. Crazy stuff.
ReplyDeleteRight. I think the actual contract between the security service, the City of Seattle, and the transportation authority is to blame. It states that observing and reporting is all their job requires, with, like you said, the little training they do have. I partly blame 3 men standing there doing nothing when it's clear the victim is surrounding herself with them for help. But it's their job and their employee contract that ties them down from touching any citizen for safety reasons. That, I think, is where the outrage is stemming from and where the argument is directed at. For that reason, the City of Seattle is now reviewing and probably restating security guard contracts in response to this story...as they should.
ReplyDeleteSuper! Commas go inside quotation marks. Keep it up!
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