Atlanta Security Guard At it Again!

[jim49er]

Is this guy going over the top now or just keeping the peace?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=779_1363713508

[kcchiefs6465]

Is this guy going over the top now or just keeping the peace?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=779_1363713508

Power tripping fool. Takes his job way too seriously. I don't know how he hasn't been fired yet with him constantly trying to fight customers.

[Fivezeroes]

Okay... that was interesting.

[Fivezeroes]

Power tripping fool. Takes his job way too seriously. I don't know how he hasn't been fired yet with him constantly trying to fight customers.


He is the half owner of the place, that's why.

[phill4paul]

I believe in private property rights. If he wishes someone to leave his property then they should.

[kcchiefs6465]

He is the half owner of the place, that's why.
Huh I didn't know that. Are you sure? He didn't mention that in his interview.

He still has some problems. A lot of the people are just told to leave when they had nothing to do with the particular person he is harrassing at the moment. I really don't know what his problem is.

[kcchiefs6465]

I believe in private property rights. If he wishes someone to leave his property then they should.
True. I thought he was just contracted through a security company. I saw his interview and that is what he implied.

[Fivezeroes]

Huh I didn't know that. Are you sure? He didn't mention that in his interview.

He still has some problems. A lot of the people are just old to leave when they have nothing to do with the particular person he is harrassing at the moment. I really don't know what his problem is.


Yea, apparently he owns half the mall or something, I dunno.

[kcchiefs6465]

Yea, apparently he owns half the mall or something, I dunno.
Where did you read that at? I can't remember the guy's name off hand but I watched an Atlanta local news station interview with him and he didn't mention that. You should see him though. I'll try to find a picture.

[Fivezeroes]

Where did you read that at? I can't remember the guy's name off hand but I watched an Atlanta local news station interview with him and he didn't mention that. You should see him though. I'll try to find a picture.


Someone in the comments on the live leak mentioned how he is part owner.

[kcchiefs6465]

http://i.imgur.com/yGsLcOO.jpg?1

He's ready for combat, that's for sure.

[jim49er]

The problem I may have with this guy in this vid is that he seems to be pushing innocent people.

[kcchiefs6465]

Someone in the comments on the live leak mentioned how he is part owner.
He's not, at least as far as I'm aware. I'll try to find the interview where he mentions the company he is contracted from. He has got a uniform on in the picture I posted.

[Fivezeroes]

http://i.imgur.com/yGsLcOO.jpg?1

He's ready for combat, that's for sure.


He has an obvious death wish...

[Fivezeroes]

He's not, at least as far as I'm aware. I'll try to find the interview where he mentions the company he is contracted from. He has got a uniform on in the picture I posted.



Ahh, then I'm surprised hes still employed.

[kcchiefs6465]

The problem I may have with this guy in this vid is that he seems to be pushing innocent people.
Some of his videos are a lot worse. He literally tries to fight anyone in sight in a few of them. When someone takes him up on his offer he pulls out two batons, his taser, or gun and threatens to shoot them. I really don't know what his problem is.

[Fivezeroes]

Some of his videos are a lot worse. He literally tries to fight anyone in sight in a few of them. When someone takes him up on his offer he pulls out two batons, his taser, or gun and threatens to shoot them. I really don't know what his problem is.


I can tell ya what his problem is, he's mental... that and he thinks that he's an actual police officer.

[phill4paul]

The problem I may have with this guy in this vid is that he seems to be pushing innocent people.

Well, that is always a game changer. At that point it becomes assault and the individual being assault has the right to negate the threat. And, as has been ponited out, if he is not the owner then it looks like the owner ( and the security company ) is in for a serious law suit one of these days.

[phill4paul]

I can tell ya what his problem is, he's mental... that and he thinks that he's an actual police officer.

From comparable videos I could just as soon speculate that he is just moonlighting in off duty hours.

[jim49er]

I can tell ya what his problem is, he's mental... that and he thinks that he's an actual police officer.

I think this guy had the right idea to start with but then went too far like alot of cops do.

[emazur]

He is the half owner of the place, that's why.

According to Yahoo he's the property manager: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/funds-raised-mall-cop-whose-video-makes-him-172155028--finance.html

Long, who has been the property manager for a year, told local Atlanta news station WSB-TV, “I feel like the Taser and the camera are the two most effective tools that I have. Do what you're supposed to do, or you get what's coming to you.”

I think it's more likely that he's not just picking fights w/ customers for shits and giggles - as has been mentioned before, he goes after people dealing drugs on the premises (the immorality of the drug war aside, not a single person here would want people dealing drugs around their business) and I'll bet he's come across tons of thieves and has told tons of people not to come back to the mall but they do it anyway. So then he has to confront them and some people get the idea that's he's some kind of power tripper. That's my theory anyway

[Ranger29860]

considering he seems to know these people (calls them by name) I would say there might be more to this confrontation. Like others have suggested those people may have been told to keep out before. Then there attitude only escalated his response. God knows in Atlanta anyone in their could be carrying so I could see him being super paranoid. Also the fact he told them to leave multiple times and all they did was mouth of and get confrontational did not help anything.

All I saw there was a bunch of punks with ghetto attitudes trying to tell a security guard (and possibly a owner) of this place that they would not only not leave but are hellbent on causing a ruckus. That woman half way through is a perfect example.

If he is a part owner then his response is perfectly responsible.

[AFPVet]

I can tell ya what his problem is, he's mental... that and he thinks that he's an actual police officer.

... just like some of those TSA 'screeners' lol.

[kcchiefs6465]

Watch his other videos. He has a few out.

[kcchiefs6465]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKpVRalJaZE

[Ranger29860]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9mjVLXwzFs

[WM_in_MO]

Private property, fair game lol.

[deadfish]

Good shit, lol.

[itshappening]

why does that mall attract so much trouble?

[emazur]

why does that mall attract so much trouble?

You're gonna open up a can of worms with that question

[jim49er]

I can tell ya what his problem is, he's mental... that and he thinks that he's an actual police officer.

You need to back up.

[WM_in_MO]

You're gonna open up a can of worms with that question

Cause it's a shithole? Maybe with a few more guys like him it would be cleaned up. This is your free market at work, business owner gets sick of crime, takes legal steps to remedy.

I know here in my county the first thing they teach people when they get licensed to work security is this "You are not the police, you work for a private employer on private property"

[VoluntaryAmerican]

You need to back up.

Get the #$@#% out of my door way man.

[QuickZ06]

Why is he so mad about the drugz dealz? He should be mad at the drug laws and what they have caused, as he can see. Gas station right down the road, does he get mad at them for there dealz?

I don't see this guy doing what he is doing much longer with the types he is messing with.

[QuickZ06]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9mjVLXwzFs

So he is trying to clean up the store so that he can get more "higher end" stores in there and attract outsiders. Not going to happen chief.

[J_White]

if he is so gung-ho, let him join the army and go fight some terrorists !
bullying unarmed people is easy.

[XTreat]

I dig him, but I fear he is not going to be around much longer.

[XTreat]

According to this news report, these people have been previously trespassed and they receive charges based on video evidence.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CjGlhhI_SYM

[dancjm]

I know this guy was the property owner, and not law enforcement, but in general I think tazers are disguising, makes me feel sick every time I see one being used.

I recall them being introduced in my country as a "less lethal" alternative to a firearm, which I think is fine. But then the measure for using one needs to be that the use of a firearm would otherwise have been appropriate. Almost every time I see a tazer used, a firearm would not have been appropriate.

Today they seem to be used as a device for threatening electrocution in order to gain compliance. Basically the threat of torture.

Granted this guy was apparently trying to exercise his property rights, but I still think the tazer, like the drone, has so much scope to be abused it seems to me to be an almost entirely negative instrument. Makes me shudder.

[NCGOPer_for_Paul]

Why is he so mad about the drugz dealz? He should be mad at the drug laws and what they have caused, as he can see. Gas station right down the road, does he get mad at them for there dealz?

I don't see this guy doing what he is doing much longer with the types he is messing with.

So, you'd let people deal drugs on your property?

Regardless of my opinion on whether people should be allowed to put whatever they want in their bodies, I also have a right to keep that shit off my property.

[XTreat]

I know this guy was the property owner, and not law enforcement, but in general I think tazers are disguising, makes me feel sick every time I see one being used.

I recall them being introduced in my country as a "less lethal" alternative to a firearm, which I think is fine. But then the measure for using one needs to be that the use of a firearm would otherwise have been appropriate. Almost every time I see a tazer used, a firearm would not have been appropriate.

Today they seem to be used as a device for threatening electrocution in order to gain compliance. Basically the threat of torture.

Granted this guy was apparently trying to exercise his property rights, but I still think the tazer, like the drone, has so much scope to be abused it seems to me to be an almost entirely negative instrument. Makes me shudder.


I am not gonna say you are wrong, but I have to wonder if hitting the lady with the baton would have been better.

[WM_in_MO]

So, you'd let people deal drugs on your property?

Regardless of my opinion on whether people should be allowed to put whatever they want in their bodies, I also have a right to keep that shit off my property.

If nothing else they are conducting business without paying rent to do so.

Wanna sell weed in my mall? Sure, $500 a month rent due the first.

[Wooden Indian]

I can tell ya what his problem is, he's mental... that and he thinks that he's an actual police officer.



No, fivezeros, he doesn't think he's a "an actual police officer". If he did, the perps would have been shot dead instead of being escorted off the private property.

Nothing wrong with what this man is doing. In fact, armed individuals, defending themselves and their property is very Libertarian, and very much what this board is all about.

[Fivezeroes]

No, fivezeros, he doesn't think he's a "an actual police officer". If he did, the perps would have been shot dead instead of being escorted off the private property.

Nothing wrong with what this man is doing. In fact, armed individuals, defending themselves and their property is very Libertarian, and very much what this board is all about.


I'm a cop and I have not shot anyone that wouldn't leave someones property, I don't know of any cop that has EVER shot someone dead for not leaving private property.

[Wooden Indian]

I'm a cop and I have not shot anyone that wouldn't leave someones property, I don't know of any cop that has EVER shot someone dead for not leaving private property.

Mostly dogs, then?

I think you missed my point, Officer. I was illustrating the restraint he shows over that of what we see on a daily basis from our "real police officers". Those scuffles often end in dead teens when so-called real cops are involved.

My second point was simply... He has a right to defend his property.. he does not need your blessing or your badge to do it. However, your original comment is exactly what I would expect from a big man in blue.

[Fivezeroes]

Mostly dogs, then?

I think you missed my point, Officer. I was illustrating the restraint he shows over that of what we see on a daily basis from our "real police officers". Those scuffles often end in dead teens when so-called real cops are involved.

My second point was simply... He has a right to defend his property.. he does not need your blessing or your badge to do it. However, your original comment is exactly what I would expect from a big man in blue.


If you call just up and pulling a loaded gun on someone restraint, then why the hell do you get so pissed when an actual cop does the same thing?

[kcchiefs6465]

I know this guy was the property owner, and not law enforcement, but in general I think tazers are disguising, makes me feel sick every time I see one being used.

I recall them being introduced in my country as a "less lethal" alternative to a firearm, which I think is fine. But then the measure for using one needs to be that the use of a firearm would otherwise have been appropriate. Almost every time I see a tazer used, a firearm would not have been appropriate.

Today they seem to be used as a device for threatening electrocution in order to gain compliance. Basically the threat of torture.

Granted this guy was apparently trying to exercise his property rights, but I still think the tazer, like the drone, has so much scope to be abused it seems to me to be an almost entirely negative instrument. Makes me shudder.
He is not the property owner. He is a security guard. ("property manager") I'd imagine someone wants him to be there and thinks that he is doing a good job. I'd also imagaine that there was probably a crime problem but he takes it a little far. Watch his other videos. He assaults people who had nothing to do with who he was telling to leave, for no reason.

[fr33]

I do enjoy his videos. It like playing Duke Nukem or something with the multiple weapons to choose from.

[jim49er]

He got fired over the videos.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/darien-long-fired-kick-ass-mall-cop_n_2917123.html

[kcchiefs6465]

He got fired over the videos.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/20/darien-long-fired-kick-ass-mall-cop_n_2917123.html
Probably because of the last one he put out. He tried to fight like 20 people.


ETA: That was before I read the article.

Here's a section from the article.


"The last video I saw [the] dude went way too far. He was instigating the arguments and fights, putting his hands on people, pushing them when there was no reason for it. He tazed the one guy for no reason," user "philhouse64" wrote. "Just goes to show what a little power and fame can do to a person. He was security guard, not a cop."

I would agree with that.

[QuickZ06]

Probably because of the last one he put out. He tried to fight like 20 people.


ETA: That was before I read the article.

Here's a section from the article.



I would agree with that.

What goes around comes around.

[kcchiefs6465]

What goes around comes around.
I'd say so. He was arrested today for tackling a man and fighting him. He was charged with battery. I would definitely not want to be him in a county jail.

[juleswin]

Turns out the expletive spewing, customer harasser, police wannabe in Darion Long at the ATL mall has been arrested for battery and along with the arrest the mall announced that his services will no longer be needed due to "budget cuts", read: he was cutting into their profits by chasing away potential customers. I always thought he would end up joining the police force but instead the police came with force and took him out.


http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhSocw25a3s663XZdt

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhSocw25a3s663XZdt

[jim49er]

I want to see the video of that fight.

[QuickZ06]

I'd say so. He was arrested today for tackling a man and fighting him. He was charged with battery. I would definitely not want to be him in a county jail.

It will be a rough stay for him. He better post bail fast.