UPDATE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlcwhkUgbXc
UPDATE 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDKPATgrlDg
UPDATE 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXEV4QGebe4
Three unarmed security guards were following orders last month when they stood by without intervening as a 15-year-old girl was badly beaten in a downtown Seattle bus tunnel. Now the company they work for and government officials say those-orders should be revised.
The guards’ actions during the brutal attack – captured on surveillance video – prompted an outcry from Metro Transit and King County authorities, who said they wished the guards had broken up the fight even though they’re not supposed to.
“We are very disappointed in what people see in that video,” said Metro Transit General Manager Kevin Desmond. “It was absolutely unacceptable.”
Police arrived minutes after the attack, and after the group had fled. Investigators tracked down four, including the alleged attacker, and arrested them on Friday and Saturday. The four were all charged with first-degree robbery.
In court papers filed Wednesday against the teen girl accused of attacking the 15-year-old and the three young men accused of stealing her purse, phone and iPod, the victim told authorities she thought the security guards would protect her.
When a group of teens and young adults approaches the girl, she appears to seek refuge by moving around to the other side of the guards.
Another 15-year-old girl shoves the victim and begins punching her. The two crash into a wall and then onto the floor. The assailant gets up and kicks and stomps on the girl’s head. Others grab her purse, iPod and cell phone.
The guards, who have standing orders to “observe and report,” called police.
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.
At the department store, two Seattle police officers noticed the escalating situation and kicked the group out of the Macy’s, then brought the girl and her friend to another exit, the victim said. She reported that she asked the officers for an escort to the bus tunnel, just below the department store, but the officers refused.
“Had these officers known what was to transpire, they probably would have paid for a cab for this victim to be taken safely to her home, but they didn’t know. They broke up a couple of disturbances and provided the victim an opportunity to leave the area via bus,” said Sgt. Sean Whitcomb, a Seattle police spokesman.
One of the defendants, 18-year-old Dominique Whitaker, told detectives that earlier in the evening the victim had pepper-sprayed another person in the group.
The 15-year-old, who reported that she lost consciousness during the attack, was not hospitalized but did see a doctor.
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.”
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.
Olympic Security President Mark Vinson did not immediately return calls seeking comment Wednesday. Desmond said he has been in close contact with the company, and its executives were disappointed in the response of the guards.
OlympicSecurity is working up a proposed contract revision that could include additional training and new guidelines on how and when guards should intervene, Desmond said.
“They are highly motivated to make changes very quickly,” Desmond said. “I am motivating them, and they have a reputation to keep.”
“If I was there on the platform I don’t know that I would have stood there,” he said. “It’s their job to be down there. The people at Olympic Security had the same human response: ‘Why didn’t we step in to protect the girl on the ground?’”
The girl charged with being the primary attacker faces up to 2½ years in juvenile detention if convicted. Whitaker and Latroy D. Hayman, 20, each face a sentence of 31 to 41 months in prison if convicted, and the third adult defendant, Tyrone J. Watson, 18, could face a sentence of 36 to 48 months in prison.
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If the gaurd …
If the gaurd interviened they would have been put in prison for 7 years because of some crummy law
‘Amazingly, she’s …
‘Amazingly, she’s going to be okay.’
lol, that goofy braud on the offensive couldn’t fight to save her life.
Green skirt says security was supposed to intervene. She’d've stood back and watched like the hypocrite she is. What a laugh.
that poor girl.
that poor girl.
all of you are …
all of you are dumbass….Why would you want to help you are stupid if you jump in to help…plus the gards are not allowed to touch the girls its a company policey they are only allowed to observe and report !!!! Plus why would you want to help a couple of thug girls who go around stealing…plus both of the girls had beef with each other for years. the girl who got the beat up. Has a criminal record for beating up a women and sercurity gaurd. Both of them could have killed for all i care!
why are the guards …
why are the guards just standing there
Why didn’t anybody …
Why didn’t anybody help her! These idiots only watched. Those security guards are huge, they could have at least restrained that crazy nutcase. Wow, just look at how caring people are these days.
YOur right about …
YOur right about the ACLU. I hope someday someone bombs the F out of the ACLU
Metro …
Metro decision-makers should be ashamed of themselves. They are 100% responsible for this easily avoidable incident and have left themselves wide open for a monsterous civil lawsuit. Metro General Manager Kevin Desmon and his cronies were obviously much more interested in low bid, rather than the reasonable safety of their patrons, when the decided to contract with a worthless, “observe and report”, “warm body” guard service. Get your act together Metro!!!
i know white people …
i know white people give them their freedom and they still act like ghetto trash.
These guards should …
These guards should at least had pepper spray.
These guards are …
These guards are usless. Why pay them. Anybody can call 911. These guards should be like cops. They should have nightsticks,handcuffs, power to arrest , taser guns and guns. whats the point of having guards if they do NOTHING.
Way for black …
Way for black people to be a credit to their race. It is no mystery why people are racist if you continue to act like fookin monkeys in the forest.
It’s like watching …
It’s like watching a pack of chimps, oh that’s right they are chimps.
Live and act like a …
Live and act like a scumbag, expect to be treated like one.
The “victim” is …
The “victim” is herself a criminal. She’s charged in a case of robbery and assault. What goes around comes around.
im not like that …
im not like that and im black
its just ghetto blacks. although i wish i could others out of my race lol.
btw that girl deserves it she jumped a guard at a mall and robbed a lady. plus she pepper sprayed the people beating her before this.
They are clearly …
They are clearly non evolving primates. I have no idea why we are even wasting time and energy on them. This scenario is playing out in every city wherever there are blacks. Just stop denying it.
If you are a …
If you are a security guard….by name….you guard (defend) the security of people or places. What makes these “security guards” much different from a “security camera” if all they can do is observe and report? People of Seattle….where is your tax money going?
OH YES PLZZZZZ LET …
OH YES PLZZZZZ LET SOME CHICKEN HEAD TRY TO ATTEMPT TP DO THT PLZZZ!
@ SupakidAKAmartian WAT THE %#&^( IS WRNG WITH YUH WHY WOULD YUH PROMOTE YURSELF WHEN THIS VID IS ABOUT A GIRL GETTING BEAT TO DEATH…..SMH
N E WAYSSSS……I CANT BELIEVE THEY JUS SAT THERE…THEY NEED TO GET THEY BUT BEAT…..WOW SMH..I WANA FIGHT NOW
DAMN that got …
that got rocked
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hey im gabe aka …
hey im gabe aka Supakid. I am a young artist that just started my youtube account to showcase and present my music. please check out my videos and my music. I need your feedback and subscribe for more vids of my music
Thanks for your time and support!
P.S im real lol so i DO REPLY and TALK! haha im not a busy kid
Its a typical black …
Its a typical black guy behavior. after you beat someone up, you rob them. LOL
This is rediculous! …
This is rediculous! If 3 security guards are not allowed to stop someone on the ground from getting their head kicked in, then why even pay them to be there? If all they can do is report crimes, then fire all of them and have only 1 person in a booth monitoring security cameras and have that person call the police. Seems like wasted tax payer money having useless security guards there to me.
haha they r …
haha they r observing the probz caz they wanna report them lmaos