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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
Fri Sep 4, 2015, 10:51 PM Sep 2015

Black Man Brutalized by Security Guard at Whole Foods for Trying to Buy Food

A black man was beaten to a bloody pulp by a security guard at an Oakland Whole Foods Thursday night after an attempt to purchase groceries led to an argument.

An eye witness to the attack, Zoe Marks, on visit from Edinburgh, Scotland where she lectures at the University of Edinburgh, gave an eyewitness account of the assault on her Facebook, posting graphic images of the victim. She told the Oakland Tribune that she saw the argument between the cashier and the victim as he was trying to use an EBT card (a food stamp card that works like a debit card), but said that the victim wasn’t “shouting,” nor was her “violent or disruptive.” In fact, Marks said the man wasn’t a threat to anyone and that she felt “safe” until the armed security guard came and “attacked him.”

In a Facebook status Marks described the “violent assault,” saying the guard “slammed” the victim against “concrete pillars.” He also allegedly put the man in a chokehold and “suffocated” him before throwing him on the ground unconscious. Then the guard reportedly locked the man out of the store despite the fact that he was unconscious.

She said none of the employees called the paramedics, instead they called for backup.

the security guard has been "permanently removed from Whole Foods Market."

http://news.yahoo.com/black-man-brutalized-security-guard-225842280.html

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Black Man Brutalized by Security Guard at Whole Foods for Trying to Buy Food (Original Post) damnedifIknow Sep 2015 OP
Zoe Marks FaceBook page Downwinder Sep 2015 #1
I don't even know what to say. Suich Sep 2015 #2
A reliable witness damnedifIknow Sep 2015 #7
WTH! that guard should be arrested KT2000 Sep 2015 #3
Some people honestly believe it's the JOB of cops to keep blacks in their place.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2015 #4
Calling for backupwhile man could be dying. Milliesmom Sep 2015 #5
Whole Foods beats you too? SHRED Sep 2015 #6
Whole Foods for Affluent White People MineralMan Sep 2015 #8
The security guard just walked over and started beating the shit out of him for having EBT linuxman Sep 2015 #9

Suich

(10,642 posts)
2. I don't even know what to say.
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 12:02 AM
Sep 2015

Hopefully the victim can sue Whole Foods and the security (?) guard for his medical bills and pain and suffering.

With all the cell phones around, there's no excuse for not calling the paramedics.

So glad there was a very reliable witness!

damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
7. A reliable witness
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 09:33 AM
Sep 2015

who will have a story to tell when she returns to Scotland and not a very flattering story.

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
3. WTH! that guard should be arrested
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 12:16 AM
Sep 2015

Whole Foods thinks it is enough to fire him? That young man can file charges against him and I hope he sues the shit out of Whole Foods and their Ayn Loving CEO.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
4. Some people honestly believe it's the JOB of cops to keep blacks in their place....
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 12:32 AM
Sep 2015

Obviously, some of them become security guards.

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
8. Whole Foods for Affluent White People
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 09:47 AM
Sep 2015

Maybe they should change their name so everyone will know who's welcome and who's not.

 

linuxman

(2,337 posts)
9. The security guard just walked over and started beating the shit out of him for having EBT
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 11:23 AM
Sep 2015

And being black? In Oakland?

I doubt that very much.

Comments by others stating they were there at the time state that there was a physical altercation initiated over being unable to buy certain item with the card, leading to the victim spitting into the guards face. A fight began, and the guard went way overboard (and should probably lose his job).

Or the guard just decided to commit felony assault, because hey, it's friday!

I'll wait for the other shoe to drop. Right now it looks like a case of "when assholes collide".

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