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Is "a guard from the google security team maced me" an easy win? What kind of evidence would be necessary to secure a win?

• dogma1138 11y ago
  Hence the suggestion to go out and film this. If this is indeed such a common occurrence it wouldn't be hard to gather evidence.
  • DanBC 11y ago
    Imagine the submitted article had video. Do you think we wouldn't have people saying things like "there seems to be something off about this. We still only have one video, and it doesn't show what happened before the guard maced the homeless person. Maybe they were being aggressive?" We see similar comments in every thread where someone alleges injustice. (Often for good reasons - we don't want an uninformed pile on based on one person's account.)
    • tptacek 11y ago
      No, I think if you had video of a security guard macing a woman or a dude with both hands full of water jugs on a public sidewalk, you'd have plaintiff's lawyers coming out of the woodwork. Again: if it were police doing this, different story (ironically): it is much harder to sue a municipality, and there is an unfortunate presumption that police use of nonlethal force is almost invariably justified. But none of that is the case with private security.