3 Seattle bus tunnel guards watch brutal beating

[azurnoir]

A 15-year-old girl who was badly beaten and robbed in a Seattle bus tunnel as three unarmed security guards looked on told investigators that she thought the men would protect her.

The victim told a King County sheriff's detective that the group followed her from a nearby department store into the bus tunnel at Westlake Station on Jan. 28, and she deliberately stood next to the three guards.

The guards didn't intervene, though. They have standing orders to "observe and report," so they called police but did nothing else as another 15-year-old girl punched and repeatedly kicked the victim in the head.

"I went to the security and told them that these kids were trying to jump me," the girl said. "I know that I am about to get jumped and I am hanging around the guards to try and get protection. ... I thought the security guards would defend me."

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[TexasObserver]

1. This is what happens when government subs out functions to low bidders.

[east texas lib]

2. Well it's not as if the "guards" had anything else to do, evidently.

Just another day.

[cloudbase]

3. Had the guards acted

they'd probably be fired for violation of some policy or another. Screwy world we live in.

[grytpype]

4. self delete