Vaccination passports are as dystopian as it gets? I’ll give you dystopian.
Here’s your dystopian.
The security guard inside closed the door from inside instead of going to help her. I saw someone say that’s their job, to secure the building, their job isn’t to monitor what’s happening outside. I say the hell with that, it’s not about “the job,” it’s about interrupting an attack. The attacker kicked the woman in the head three times – if the guard had rushed out the second and third wouldn’t have happened.
This is your dystopia – street violence and bystanders closing the door while it happens.
This one is even worse to watch, because it goes on for a long time after the attacker walks off, and no one helps the woman.
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Disgusting. There appear to be three guards (at least) on site. None of them even appears to be calling the police or checking if the victim is ok, even after the assailant starts walking away.
It’s horrible. And in that second video…it goes on for minutes and none of them comes out to ask if she’s ok.
Bad Samaritans, all. I wonder if they all attend church on Sundays. It wouldn’t surprise me.
Jeezis H. Keerist…! Those security guards were probably too timid to intervene. I hope the cops inform the building manageent to that effect and manage to find the grub who did it. He deserves a long stretch of porridge.
Omar, I can only share your response but. . .
Maybe it’s been made clear to them (denialably, of course) that they stand to lose their minimum wage jobs if they get involved in anything that happens off premises. Given the size the men in the video I suspect they were a lot less afraid of getting punched than their managers are of being sued. If you look, you’ll probably find ass-covering all the way to the top.
Francis: Noted.
I cannot image the street thug on camera would have much of a chance in court if he took legal action, though he could possibly find a lawyer who would take his case pro bono for ~ 100% any payout. And if the building management played it right, and had the ear of a friendly journalist or two, they could get the message out pretty smartly to the petty crims: “don’t try anything where we might be watching,” enhancing their own reputations and security in the process.
But then again, the thug might have good connections to the local Mafia godfather, the Chief of Police, or both.
The problem goes back a bit. Security guards historically have been employed for their muscles not their interpersonal skills. Which means they earned (maybe unjustly) a reputation for being thugs. So after some high profile lawsuits management drums into them a “you’re not paid to think, just follow the rules and if it’s not in the rules ignore it” mentality. There a ways around it like ensuring that each team has one member employed specifically for their people skills, but the paradigm is still big men in black.
Can’t say I’d necessarily do anything myself, but that’s due to cowardice, so…
Building management policy? I recall some years back a fast-food worker was fired for calling 911 to aid a customer in a medical crisis.