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Obviously overshot charges but damn this isn't gonna end well. Hopefully someone filmed the thing or security cameras caught something so they can know what lead to the assault. But using your board to hit someone in the head is unacceptable in any situation unless the other person is seriously threatening a life. Full kook move fuck that guy
Fully agree but has it been established that this is what happened here?
Nope, people are just jumping to conclusions that a skater saw a security guard and out of nowhere just decided to attack him. Are people forgetting about the countless times authorities overstep their power? It seems unnecessary to remind people that cops and security guards get away with assaulting and murdering innocent people.
I've met Jesse a few times in the streets. He's always been kind, calm and if I remember correctly doesn't even drink (memory is iffy on this one). We have no idea what really went down that day which led to this altercation. Yes, it sucks for everyone involved, but there are still so many details left out.
I don't want to say you're wrong but I think you are over glorifying security guards as authoritarian figures. I wholeheartedly agree with you that cops often overstep their power especially dealing with POC who are being profiled/targeted. Sure some security guards act like assholes too but skateboarders willingly put themselves into these situations. So I can sometimes empathize with the frustration of being a security guard. Imagine being paid jackshit in one of the most expensive cities in the US to which you were priced out of. Then having to commute an hour or hour and a half to a low paying job just to kick out skateboarders off of private property. That would suck. I'm sure security could care less about skateboarding but the possibility of being reprimanded for not doing so, could put them at risk for losing their job.
So a skateboarder who feels entitled to skate on the premises refuses to leave and makes a low-wage earning security guard's job more frustrating? Seems lame to me.
Don't get me wrong. There was a time in my life where I would run around a security guard or beg just to get another try. Now I just have to let that shit go. Yes, to us skateboarders it is "just skateboarding" it isn't a big deal so we expect other people to not get worked up over it. But can't the same saying go both ways? It is after all "just skateboarding" and it shouldn't be taken seriously. If someone asks you to split, well then, on to the next spot, go grab a coffee, go to the park, go home and cry about it, go anywhere but there. Shit come back another day even. It's not worth stressing out someone who is literally just scraping by a measly living.
Sure I'll still take a stab at a spot that say's "No Skateboarding" or one that has a security guard but if someone comes out and asks me to leave, I'll always politely say "yes" and go. No if's and or buts. That isn't because I feel obligated to treat them as an authority but because I understand they are doing a thankless, shitty, job.
I'm sure if you had an asshole come into your work and refuse to quite being an asshole you'd get up in arms about it too.
For posterity's sake, I hope that Jesse was acting in self-defense
Go ahead kook me for this but I'm sure a lot of older heads feel me on this.