BY BRIAN ROKOS / STAFF WRITER
Published: June 5, 2015 Updated: 9:01 p.m.
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A clerk and a security guard were injured in a melee with a tagger and his family at a Dollar Tree in Riverside on Thursday, June 4, the Police Department said.
About 3:30 p.m. at the store at 4721 La Sierra Ave., an employee caught a boy vandalizing the bathroom with graffiti, Officer Javier Cabrera said. As the employee escorted the boy out of the store, the boy’s mother intervened, throwing the female employee to the floor and kicking her in the head.
When a security guard tried to help, the mother and her adult son attacked the guard, Cabrera said. During the fight, someone — it’s unclear who — stabbed the security guard.
The mother and the adult son were arrested, but the boy got away, Cabrera said. Police expect to arrest him soon.
The guard was treated at a hospital for injuries that Cabrera described as not life threatening.
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Concert security guard punching handcuffed man
SACRAMENTO – A security guard escorting a disruptive concertgoer in handcuffs from a radio station-sponsored concert was caught on camera punching the man twice in the head.
A man in attendance at a concert in Sacramento’s Discovery Park on Sunday recorded security personnel punching a disruptive concertgoer as they led him away. News10/KXTV
The man being taken away from the Sunday 102.5 Live event at Discovery Park had thrown the first punch after exchanging words with security guards near the stage.
The man was subdued and handcuffed and being led away behind a backstage fence about 90 seconds after the initial altercation when the guard who had been the target of first punch responded with a blow to the man’s face with his left hand and to the back of his head with his right.
The video was provided to News10 by an employee of the company that staged the concert who said he was troubled by the security guard’s attack.
Darryl Liner, the owner of the firm that provided security for the event, congratulated the team on his Facebook page for the overall concert security, but declined to comment when sent a link to the video of the backstage incident.
Veteran criminal defense attorney Mark Reichel said private security guards have no more police power than an average citizen and generally receive far less training than a sworn peace officer.
“This is excessive,” Reichel said after reviewing the video. “If he was law enforcement, there’s a chance he might be charged with a crime.”
The name of the disruptive concertgoer was unavailable and News10 could find no evidence that he was even arrested.
Reichel said both the security guard and his employer could be held liable if the man decides to sue.
“I would hope the security company fires this individual to make a statement,” he said.
An employee of a concert promoter captured video of a security guard punching a disruptive concertgoer while leading him away during a concert at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Sunday.News10/KXTV
5th-grader takes security guard’s gun at school, officials say
ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. —A fifth-grade student was somehow able to get the gun of a security guard Monday at his elementary school, according to school officials..
Anderson District 5 public information officer Kyle Newton said that the student took the gun from the holster of the private security guard who was working at Varennes Elementary.
Newton said the security guard was sitting down with students sitting on either side of him as he talked to them both.
The guard said when he turned his head to talk to the student on the left, the student on the right removed the gun from his holster.
The guard said the student only had the gun for a matter of seconds.
The gun was not fired and no one was injured, officials said.
The guard worked for Defender Services. He no longer works at the school, Newton said.
The student has been disciplined for taking the gun, Newton said.
A recorded message about the incident went out to parents Wednesday afternoon, two days after the incident and hours after WYFF News4 reported
“I’ve talked to couple of parents, and they’re irate that they weren’t notified either,” said Teresa Trice, who picked up her daughter after hearing about the incident on WYFF News4. “I told them, I said, ‘I want my daughter. I want to get my daughter out because of the incident.’ And the secretary said, ‘That happened two days ago.’ I said, ‘Well, that makes it even worse.’ The principal was standing next to her and never said a word, never said a word.”
Newton said District 5 uses the security guards in rotation with school resource officers at the elementary schools because it’s the only affordable way to have security at all the schools all day, every day.
Newton said the district started using Defender Services this year and hasn’t had any issues with the company.
Newton told WYFF News4’s Mike McCormick that most of the security guards are former law enforcement officers or have served in the military.
Defender Services would not comment on the incident.
CA. Security Officer Shoots-Kills Armed Man
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S/O Critically Injured During Shoot-Out
MARCH 9 2015
LOS ANGELES CA
A security officer at a Hyde Park marijuana dispensary was involved in a gun battle with three robbery suspects Sunday and was critically injured.
Multiple gunshots were fired at about 7:20 p.m. at the dispensary at 54th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard according to police.
The armed men entered the business and engaged the security guard in a shootout that left him with three bullet wounds. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
The three suspects fled the scene and remained at large. No description was immediately available.
Los Angeles police said the shooting may be gang related. They did not report what if anything was taken.
Police said that they are not sure that the business was properly licensed.
An investigation was ongoing.
Report from Private Officer International
California Security officer shoots , kills burglary suspect
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Man sentenced in stabbing of Salinas store security guard
Man sentenced in stabbing of Salinas store security guard.
Posted: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 5:35 pm
Richard Gutierrez was sentenced to 26 years to life today for stabbing a security guard to death last August in Salinas.
On August 2, 2013, 22-year-old Gutierrez walked into the 99 Cent Store at 102 E. Lauren Dr. and attacked the store’s security guard Victor Sosa, 57, with a knife. Shoppers threw canned goods at Gutierrez in an attempt to get him away from the guard.
Sosa died a short time later at Natividad Medical Center where Gutierrez also was taken for his injuries. Gutierrez was then taken to the Monterey County Jail and booked on charges of attempted robbery and homicide.
According to witnesses at the scene, Gutierrez had entered and left the store multiple times before the attack. The final time he entered, he stood near a cash register, then grabbed the guard and attacked him.
Monterey County Deputy District Attorney Rolando Mazariegos says Gutierrez pleaded to first-degree murder with use of a knife. At the time of the arrest, Mazariegos says Gutierrez was also charged with attempted robbery, but that charge was dropped.
“It seemed like a robbery, but the scene was disorganized and senseless, so it was hard to know if he was there for a robbery,” says Mazariegos. “He was arrested minutes after leaving the store and he was covered in blood.”
Mazariegos says Monterey County Superior Judge Pamela Butler sentenced Gutierrez and he did not say anything when the punishment given. Sosa’s widow spoke.
“She was in tears and visibly distraught. It seemed very difficult for her to express all the pain she was feeling as a result of losing her husband,” says Mazariegos. “I think she touched everyone in the courtroom.”
According to Mazariegos, Gutierrez had his head down and did not react to her statements.
Homeless Man Arrested At McDonald’s After Attacking Security Guard | Santa Monica Mirror
Homeless Man Arrested At McDonald’s After Attacking Security GuardPOSTED OCT. 6, 2014, 9:05 AMTIM BROUGHTON / MIRROR CONTRIBUTORSanta Monica police arrested a 35-year-old homeless man inside the McDonald’s near the pier on Friday, Sept. 24 after attacking a security guard.Officers of the Santa Monica Police Department rushed to McDonald’s at 1540 Second Street at 9:40 pm on this day in order to investigate a report of a fight in progress.Upon arrival the officers spoke with two witnesses who told them they had seen a pair of what they described as “intoxicated males.”The witnesses added these men had been drinking from beer cans, and laughing and making a commotion in the restaurant, and that when a security guard had requested that the men leave the restaurant the pair became “belligerent.”These men had then allegedly advanced towards the security guard in a threatening manner which prompted the guard to use his pepper spray on them.A fight had quickly ensued before two citizens had assisted the security guard.One of the suspects had fled, according to the witnesses, but the security guard detained the other until police arrived.The officers, under the protocol afforded to them by a request for a citizen’s arrest by the security guard, arrested this suspect and he was charged with assault and battery.Bail for this 35-year-old homeless man was set at $20,000.Editor’s Note: These reports are part of a regular police coverage series entitled “Alert Police Blotter” APB, which injects some minor editorial into certain police activities in Santa Monica. Not all of The Mirror’s coverage of incidents involving police are portrayed in this manner. More serious crimes and police-related activities are regularly reported without editorial in the pages of the Santa Monica Mirror and its website, smmirror.com.
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Standard Security Guard in hot water?
Just last week, “Django Unchained” actress Danielle Watts was allegedly mistaken for a prostitute after she was seen kissing her white boyfriend. The story made headlines and raised awareness about the ever-present racial profiling that continues to permeate our society. Unfortunately, though, Watt’s story was just a precursor to another similar situation involving a group of women and a security guard at the Standard Hotel in New York City.
Kantaki Washington, the executive director of Sol Afrik, and her two friends were invited to the downstairs bar at the swanky West Village hotel by a group of men they met in the lobby. An African American man walked up to their table to talk to the women but was quickly escorted out by a security guard, which the women thought was “odd.”
However, before the security guard walked away, he looked at the three women and said, “Come on, ladies, you can buy drinks here, but you cannot solicit.”
Washington and her friends were confused and questioned the guard.
“We were like, ‘What are you saying?’ So he was like, ‘Come on, ladies, you know what you’re doing. There’s no soliciting here,'” she told HuffPost Live’s Alyona Minkovski.
And then the women realized what was going on — they were the only African American women at the hotel at the time, and they were being accused of prostitution.
“That’s when I stood up and explained, ‘Look, I have a legal background, I went to law school, what are you saying? These women are educators. There’s no way that we are here soliciting, nor do we have any reason to solicit.’ And he was like, ‘I don’t really care who you are,'” Washington said.
Washington and her friends wanted an apology and asked the manager how to get in touch with guest services, but they were given a “hesitant” reaction. It wasn’t until a reporter later found out about their story that the Standard started giving them more attention.
“When a reporter got the story and reached out to [the Standard], all of a sudden they were ready, willing and able to have conversations with us,” Washington said.
The hotel subsequently emailed Washington, offering to sponsor a dinner for her and her friends that she said would have amounted to about $400 and a bottle of champagne. However, the women found the offer offensive.
“For us, it was kind of an insult to be given a dinner. We felt like we’re professional women, we can kind of afford that,” she said. “We think there should be more of a greater action taken on behalf of the hotel. They need to make sure that patrons feel comfortable, that they have a good image and also to rectify the situation. We were the only African American women in there.”
Since the story has become more public, Washington is considering the role that racial-profiling may have played in the security guard’s highly offensive behavior.
“I’m not saying maybe race was an issue, but I can say we were the only African American women in there and they targeted us for prostitution immediately,” she said. “No questions asked, and there was no apology given on the spot.”
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