Some months back, Razor Ray reported a similar incident at City Hall. Ray, however, insisted the SCPD be called, and the cop advised the First Alarm guard that no law was being violated. He also documents a continuing pattern of First Alarm harassment in San Lorenzo Park (“What $160,000 dollars a year buys in contracts to ‘First Alarm’” at https://www.indybay.org/
Photojournalist and former Santa Cruz Eleven defendant Alex Darocy has also documented escalating harassment by First Alarm Security thugs in San Lorenzo Park: See “First Alarm Security Guards Profile and Stalk San Lorenzo Park Users” at https://www.indybay.org/
Please post any videos, photos, or other accounts of such darkening police state behavior on line at you-rube as well as at www.indybay.org/santacruz .
An incident such as is described below is a likely prospect in Santa Cruz. We’ve already experienced Officer Vasquez’s “Sidewalk Smash” of Richard Hardy (see http://www.santacruzsentinel.
The increasing demonization of homeless people is encouraged by by neo-fascistic groups like the Public Hysteria Citizens Task Farce (which calls itself the Public Security Citizens Task Force) set up to legitimize “an unwelcoming attitude towards the homeless.”
This situation will grow worse on July 11th when a new anti-homeless “Public Safety” ordinance goes into effect. (See “Anti-Homeless Laws at Santa Cruz City Council” at https://www.indybay.org/
The First Alarm Security Thugs are reported covered under MC 13.08.090(a) which reads ” Any person who willfully harasses or interferes with a City of Santa Cruz employee in the performance of his or her duties in a City park or beach, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” This, of course, turns around the kind of security thug “move along or be intimidated” harassment that is increasingly reported by homeless-looking folks in the parks.
The resulting ritual humiliation and harassment by First Alarm, boardwalk security, Panther Protective Services, and other would-be stormtroopers is almost certain at some point to spark verbal or physical resistance and violence. Which, in turn, will lead to lawsuits–if adequately documented.
Severely beaten L.A. man awarded $58M
House painter’s skull was crushed by security guard during bar fight.
(Photo: Nick Ut, AP)
A California jury has awarded nearly $58 million to a 43-year-old house painter left brain damaged and deformed after a security guard crushed his skull during a beating outside a Los Angeles-area bar.
“His skull is like a pie with 25% cut out of it,” attorney Federico Sayre said at a news conference Monday.
Doctors had to removed part of Antonio Lopez Chaj’s brain and skull after the April 2010 beating at La Barra Latina in Torrance. He can no longer speak, needs help walking and requires 24-hour care.
Sayre said an unlicensed, untrained security guard with DGSP Security and Patrol Service beat Chaj with a baton or metal bar, kicked him in the head eight times and bashed his skull on the pavement four times. Chaj was attacked after he tried to intervene in a fight between one of his two nephews and the bar manager.
The guard was never charged; police said they lacked independent witnesses. He and the bartender who started the fight disappeared before the civil trial.
The damage award against the security firm — $35 million for past pain and suffering, $11.5 million for future medical expenses and $11 million for future pain and suffering — is one of the largest ever given to an individual in California.
Chaj’s lawyers, including the oldest son of the late farm workers’ leader Cesar Chavez, expect the security firm to ask the judge to reduce the judgment.
“I have explained to him that he now is going to be taken care of the rest of his long life,” Sayre said he told
Chaj, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Great Info! Security guards are given training previously to handle difficult situations which may bring panic among the general public. These guards have been trained in various self-defense and public defense techniques.