I'd actually like to hear the guards side before I jump to conclusions. And actually walking is exactly what you might want to do if you just stole something. Why? Because the guards are looking for the guys running away when the alarm goes off.
However, when actually singled out and confronted, most shoplifters either cut and run at that point, or stop and deny everything. This is why I'm saying the guard should have
got in front of them and challenged them. Which I highly doubt he did.
As of right now we actually have no idea what happened before the video starts and the guy is ALREADY on the ground.
Actually, we do have an idea. The guy who posted the video says the guard jumped the guy and tackled him before he started filming.
But everyone wants to jump to conclusions and shout out, "boo! Bad cops! Let the deaf guys go!"
No, not everyone. I don't think my first post implied that at all. I actually accept that there was a degree of misunderstanding and bad luck that inflamed the whole incident. The point I was trying to make was that the guard could have handled the situation better, which would in turn have avoided 1) The deaf guy getting traumatised and 2) a video of the guard winding up all over youtube, which I'm sure he's not thrilled about... or the store he was working for, either.
He may have confronted him. I would, in fact, assume that they called out to them numerous times in an attempt to get them to stop. (Again, back to the walking, that's right when a would be thief might whisper to his buddy, "just ignore him and keep walking!") He may have actually gotten in front of them and said, "hold up," to which the deaf guy may have looked at him funny and walked right on by.
A lot of maybes here. Regarding the last bit in particular, I am presuming the security guard would have to be carrying some sort of ID which he would show the guy. If he had done this, I seriously doubt the guy would have just kept walking, knowing the guy was a security guard.
Right now we don't know but EVERYONE wants to jump on the security guards when, in everything I can see from the video, they appear to be doing their jobs. It may suck. Yeah, the guys may be deaf. The guy on the bottom was freaked out, I understand that. The guards where much bigger than the itty bitty shoppers, so sorry. But he didn't knee the guy in the head to "put him down." He didn't put the guy to sleep. He didn't hit him. He held him...tightly. Everyone wants to say, "ooo, he was brutal with that! He should hold him more gently!" Well, you can't. Because then you're not doing an effective job of restraining him. Then he cuffed him and walked him off. He didn't smack him around while he had him cuffed. He didn't cuff him and then face plant him on the bricks and put a knee in his back.
Again, I have to say, no, it's not EVERYONE at all. You're jumping to as many conclusions as you're accusing everyone else of. Not everyone is jumping up and down screaming "fuck the cops!" at all. But lots of people have concerns about what the guard did, and I think those concerns are justified. I agree he didn't actually brutalize the guy or do him serious damage, but what happened was extremely traumatic, and more so because the guy was deaf (and as another poster said, it would have been extra terrifying because he would have had no idea what was going on, and no way of communicating once he was taken down).
I have no idea what the rights of the guard (or the shopper) were in that situation, so I can't really comment on that: hopefully someone can come in and clarify. But if it turns out that that guard wasn't actually allowed to physically grab the guy, then he is in a world of shit.
Where's Roger Huerta when you need him? Notice how no one does anything. This is pretty disgusting.
