{"id":1153,"date":"2013-07-04T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2013-07-12T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T20:25:00","slug":"security-santa-cruz-security-guard-thuggery-receives-go-ahead-on-july-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/security-santa-cruz-security-guard-thuggery-receives-go-ahead-on-july-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Santa Cruz Security Guard Thuggery Receives Go-Ahead on July 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOTE BY NORSE:\u00a0 Reports in Santa Cruz of intimidation and inappropriate behavior by Security Guards around the library, city hall, and San Lorenzo Park continue to come in on a regular basis–and from homeless people who have no past history of such complaints.\u00a0 Yesterday, Gary at the Drum Circle denounced a First Alarm Security Guard (who, he said, was named “Dane”) for picking him out, towering over him, and then demanding he surrender the brown liquid in a glass jar (coffee) for examination, apparently insisting there were “no such liquids allowed in the park.”\u00a0\u00a0 Earlier, Gary reports, the same First Alarm guard bullied him at City Hall by false claiming his bike had to be placed in a special area to be “legal”.<\/p>\n

Some months back, Razor Ray reported a similar incident at City Hall.\u00a0 Ray, however,\u00a0 insisted the SCPD be called, and the cop advised the First Alarm guard that no law was being violated. \u00a0 He also documents a continuing pattern of First Alarm harassment in San Lorenzo Park (“What $160,000 dollars a year buys in contracts to \u2018First Alarm\u2019<\/strong>”\u00a0 at https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2013\/05\/07\/18736461.php?show_comments=1#18736533<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a> ).<\/p>\n

Photojournalist and former Santa Cruz Eleven defendant Alex Darocy has also documented escalating harassment by First Alarm Security thugs in San Lorenzo Park:\u00a0 See “First Alarm Security Guards Profile and Stalk San Lorenzo Park Users”<\/strong>\u00a0 at https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2013\/06\/24\/18738888.php<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a> .<\/p>\n

An incident such as is described below is a likely prospect in Santa Cruz.\u00a0 We’ve already experienced Officer Vasquez’s “Sidewalk Smash” of Richard Hardy\u00a0 (see http:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/localnews\/ci_23092865\/homeless-man-injured-during-arrest<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a> ).\u00a0 SCPD uniformed officers reportedly have “better training” than the private security heavies hired by the City to appease the Take Back Santa Cruz\/Lynn Robinson\/Pamela Comstock mob.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

This situation will grow worse on July 11th when a new anti-homeless “Public Safety” ordinance goes into effect. \u00a0 (See “Anti-Homeless Laws at Santa Cruz City Council” at https:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2013\/05\/26\/18737433.php<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0 This new ordinance (MC 13.08.090(b)) reads\u00a0 ” Any person who by his or her conduct, or by threatening or abusive, or profane language willfully molests or unreasonably interferes with the use of a City park or beach by any other person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”\u00a0 This sets up “fuck you, leave me alone!” responses for a year in jail and $1000 fine as well as a pre-conviction 24-hour banishment order from the park in question.<\/p>\n

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.”\u00a0\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Which, in turn, will lead to lawsuits–if adequately documented.<\/p>\n

Severely beaten L.A. man awarded $58M<\/h1>\n
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Michael Winter, USA TODAY 9:09 p.m. EDT July 2, 2013<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

House painter’s skull was crushed by security guard during bar fight.<\/h2>\n
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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.<\/p>\n

“His skull is like a pie with 25% cut out of it,” attorney Federico Sayre said at a news conference Monday.
\nDoctors 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The guard was never charged; police said they lacked independent witnesses. He and the bartender who started the fight disappeared before the civil trial.<\/p>\n

The damage award against the security firm \u2014 $35 million for past pain and suffering, $11.5 million for future medical expenses and $11 million for future pain and suffering \u2014 is one of the largest ever given to an individual in California.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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<\/p>\n

Chaj, the Los Angeles Times <\/em>reported<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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