More security in line for Seattle bus tunnel

gritz said on February 17, 2010 at 8:43 PM

In these times of budget cuts and scaling back our budgets. Why dont we just use the video surveillance cameras as the security? The men down there are just as effective, we dont have to pay for health care pensions or wages for three people who accomplish nothing.

baybee said on February 17, 2010 at 1:21 PM

I DONT CARE IF THEY ARE OUT NUMBERED, YOU DONT STAND AROUND AND WATCH SOMETHING LIKE THIS, YOU DO WHAT YOU CAN TO HELP. ALL THEY DID WAS MOVE OUT OF THE WAY TO ALLOW IT EVEN MORE, AND ONE OF THEM WALKED AWAY, THEY ARE COWARDS AND THERE COMPANY REALLY SHOULD BE ASHAMED, HAVING THEM IN THE TUNNEL IS POINTLESS, MY NEIGHBOR IS A SECURITY GUARD FOR THE SAME COMPANY AND NOW THE ARE BEING ASSULTED, PEOPLE ARE SPITTING ON THEM AND EVERYTHING, THATS NOT OK EITHER. I JUST DONT LIKE THE FACT THAT NOW THEY ARE JOKES, PEOPLE ARE DOING WHAT THEY WANT BECAUSE THEY KNOW YOU CANT DO NOTHING ABOUT IT...

lyoto_karate said on February 17, 2010 at 11:47 AM

baybee said, "THIS STORY IS NOT ABOUT TEENAGERS FIGHTING, ITS ABOUT THE ADULTS THAT STOOD AND DID NOTHING." But as you can see the adults are outnumbered. Unless they're martial arts trained like me, they will get their @$$ kicked once they step in.

truthdector said on February 17, 2010 at 11:38 AM

I was in the tunnel a few years ago taking the bus, and some black female was across on the other side flipping me the middle finger holding it up for like 10 minutes and nobody thought that was out of the ordinary..... If I would have done that to her, then it would have been all over the Seattle news as RACIAL Hate Crime, and such intolerance, but they can kick and stomp on each or on whitey (say Tuba Man, for instance) and it's written on by diminished whites as a common assault.

think said on February 17, 2010 at 11:18 AM

Big-Brother can't protect you all of the time. Call it bad-luck, or fate, but some of us will fall victim to crime one-way-or-the-other. There's no enough tax-payer dollars to hire 24 hour bodyguards for every person, or place. It's unrealistic, period. We live in a society where, when a person finds themselves a victim of crime, they play the 'blame-game', looking to put the blame for their unfortunate circumstance on someone, or something (government agency) else. Of course the big 'hope' is for a ridiculously huge monetary settlement. We need to put more emphasis on personal responsibility for the circumstances of our lives.

baybee said on February 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM

YOU ALL SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES, THIS STORY IS NOT ABOUT TEENAGERS FIGHTING, ITS ABOUT THE ADULTS THAT STOOD AND DID NOTHING, I UNDERSTAND MAYBE AIESHA WAS A TROUBLE MAKER BUT LET ME ASK YOU THIS WHERE ARE THE VIDEO TAPES OF HER ATTACKING PEOPLE, BOTTOM LINE THIS WAS CAUGHT ON TAPE AND IT SHOWS WHAT IT SHOWS, AND THAT IS ADULTS STANDING AROUND WHILE A CHILD IS GETTING BEAT AT THEIR FEET. I DONT CARE WHAT HAPPENED WEEKS OR EVEN MINUTES BEFORE THIS, THE ADULTS INVOLVED IN THE SITUATION SHOULD HAVE HELPED HER, AS FAR AS THE ATTACKER IN THE VIDEO, ITS SAD THAT THIS GIRL IS SITTING IN JAIL RIGHT NOW BUT SHE DIDNT HANDLE THE SITUATION THE WAY SHE SHOULD HAVE. AIESHA IS NOT ON TRIAL FOR HER PAST, JUST BECAUSE SHE DID WRONG THEN DOES NOT GIVE PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO DO WHAT THEY DID TO HER, SHE DESERVES TO BE PROTECTED LIKE ANY ONE ELSE, IF SHE WAS SUCH A TROUBLE MAKER GET MAD AT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT STILL HAS HER WALKING THE STREETS. LETS FOCUS ON THE RIGHT THING AND THAT IS THE ADULTS

theperfectweapon said on February 17, 2010 at 10:34 AM

She was asking for a beating, and she finally got one. End of the story.

gablestout said on February 17, 2010 at 10:22 AM

The issue is not who did what to whom, it is the placement of the O/R security guards and the rules governing their employment. It reminds me of 7-11's policy (not sure if it is STILL policy) to terminate employees who resist robbery attempts, regardless of outcome. My first question is why the apparent redundancy of cameras and uniformed guards who's sole job is O/R? I liken it to fake security cameras: they're only effective until someone knows they're fake. Unarmed security guards are, by most policies (if not all) not to intervene for similar liability reasons as 7-11's policy, BUT that is only one class of security guards. Trained guards with non-lethal weapons and guards with lethal weapons are an available option that can be hired (hint: they cost more). I cannot bring myself to vilify Olympic Security at all for following their contract. The onus should be on Metro, who should have placed guards with the authority, capacity, and responsibility to intervene, in the first place.

206bruce said on February 17, 2010 at 9:51 AM

She's been feuding with her attacker and brought her problems to the streets of Seattle, Macy's, Nordstrom's, and then finally the bus tunnel and now she's passing blame? It definitely "could have been a situation that didn't have to happen" but had the guards intervened, it only would have been postponed.

trucker45 said on February 17, 2010 at 9:08 AM

So Aiesha is mad at what happened to her. The police should have stopped it shouldn't they? She has not been in court yet but little angel Aiesha is charged in Snohomish county with pushing a woman down and hitting her with closed fists before stealing her purse along with one of her friends. This happened back on May 23rd 2009. It seem that it is only bad if she is the one on the receiving end.

bazwest said on February 17, 2010 at 8:53 AM

"Observe and Report". Another fine example of a waste of taxpayer money. The list goes on and on and on....