[yorkiekist]

Originally Posted by BamaFan121s

Although I completely agree with the agenda of the those who were protesting in the video, I can also completely understand the action of the security. I think there are probably too many unknowns in the scenario to be able to declare with any amount of certainty what exactly happened. You can only hear what was being picked up on the camera (which was 2 stories up). For all we know, the security guards could have been asking the guy to leave before resorting to the actions they did. They could have been doing the same with the pom-pom girls. Heck, for all we know the guy could have told the guard he had a bomb and was going to blow everyone up. Who knows!

As far as the guy not removing the cheerleaders...how well would that have gone over? A grown man using physical force against a female...think about that. Furthermore, he was a tad bit outnumbered by them---4 to 1. I would suspect he was waiting for other guards to arrive. (You see him using his radio and other guards arriving shortly.) What would have been the approved way for him to handle the situation with the females?

Bottom line, the mall is private property and although their reasons may be noble, their antics were likely distrubing businesses and mall patrons. IMO, the security guards were within their right to remove him / them from the premisis by whatever means the situation deemed neccessary.

Very well stated!