‘Empire’ star Bryshere “Yazz” Gray tried pulling the celebrity card big time Saturday night but one security guard just wasn’t having it. We’re told Yazz, who plays Hakeem Lyon, was trying to get into Memphis’ famous Beale Street … the only problem?
He didn’t want to stand in line. A witness says there were about 35 people waiting when the actor came out of nowhere and tried going through the street’s exit, completely ignoring the line. Yazz got into it with asecurity guard before his bodyguard …
However, the 21 year old was blocked by a security guard, who confronted him about skipping the line, prompting the actor to try and use his celebrity to win the bouncer over. When the security official refused to budge, Gray launched into a furious …
Fresh off his “You’re So Beautiful” performance at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards, Bryshere Gray became a serious case of art imitating life. The Empire star must have still been in character as Hakeem Lyon, the son of a hip-hop mogul, when he tried to …
A video on TMZ shows a burly security guard getting in a small physical altercation with Yazz where he pushes him backwards and away from the club’s entrance. The actor was pretty quick to acquiesce, so luckily the confrontation didn’t escalate …
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New Orleans LA Aug 15 2015 A group of offenders incarcerated at Bridge City Center for Youth attacked and overpowered a guard last week, allowing eight teens to bolt from their secured dorm, including two who managed to escape the property entirely, according to authorities.
While Riynell Nixon, 15, and Rashad Seals, 16, went on the lam Friday (Aug. 7), prompting a search by local law enforcement. The other six offenders never made it off-property, said Elizabeth Touchet-Morgan, spokeswoman for the Louisiana Office of Juvenile Justice.
Investigators Tuesday arrested Sanders Johnson, Juan Tapia, Armani Mouton and Martez Doucet, all 17, and Eric Curry, 19, and booked them with simple escape, according to arrest records. Juvenile Justice investigators also arrested and booked a 16-year-old boy accused of taking part in the escape, Touchet-Morgan said.
The attack occurred about 1:25 a.m. Friday in the boys’ Harmony dormitory at the facility, located at 3225 River Road, Bridge City. Tapia, Mouton, Curry and the unnamed 16-year-old grabbed a guard – referred to as a juvenile justice specialist by officials at the youth center – as he was standing near the door, according to arrest reports.
“They rushed him,” Touchet-Morgan said.
The four teens held the guard down as Seals tried to grab his keys. During the struggle, someone bit the guard’s hand, Touchet-Morgan said.
Seals managed to get the keys away from the guard and unlocked a back door. The teens also stole the guard’s portable radio and the dorm telephone, preventing him from contacting other staffers, the arrest reports said.
The guard finally alerted officials by waving frantically in front of security cameras installed in the dorm. The responding officers spotted the teens on the grounds and began chasing them around the facility, the arrest report said.
They eventually rounded up six of the offenders, but Nixon and Seals escaped through a hole in the perimeter fence, authorities said.
In addition to the simple escape charge, Tapia, Mouton, Curry and the 16-year-old were booked with battery of a correctional center employee while in custody.
Nixon’s relatives surrendered him to authorities on Saturday. Authorities arrested Seals in Baton Rouge on Sunday.
The escape was the second to occur at the youth center in a three-day period. Wilnor Chaney Jr., 18, escaped in a similar fashion by overpowering a guard to access keys during the early morning hours of Aug. 5, Touchet-Morgan said. He was recaptured and booked with simple escape and battery of a correctional center employee while in custody.
The Youth Center has come under scrutiny in the past for issues concerning understaffing and violence against employees. Following the escape, state officials are reviewing the policies and procedures at the facility as part of its investigation, Touchet-Morgan said.
“We look at our staffing to see if there is something we could do to make adjustments for employees,” she said.
That could include reviewing staff-to-youth ratios at the facility. All of the dorm-based employees are supported by other staffers, including shift supervisors and roaming specialist and staff in the control center, according to Touchet-Morgan.
“There are a lot of variables to look at and we’re looking at all of them,” she said. “It’s a facility and processes break down. We want to make sure that we keep that from happening, again.”
Los Angeles CA Aug 15 2015 A recent attack on security guards by youths staying at a transitional center for older foster children with nowhere else to go prompted a call Friday for beefed up security at the facility.
The Youth Welcome Center, housed on the campus of Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, is a last-resort place for foster children ages 12 and older who have nowhere else to go. Many of the youths are older teens who have been thrown out of multiple foster homes or are difficult to place. The facility is supposed to house the children for 24 hours, but many end up staying considerably longer.
In February, the Times reported on issues at the facility, including youths being recruited for prostitution. Four months later, a special committee appointed by the county Board of Supervisors recommended that they shut the center down.
On Saturday, three youths at the center attacked two security guards, said Amara Suarez, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. She said it was unclear what sparked the assault, but it “may have been related to the youths not following instructions as they were being processed into the center.”
A staffer captured a portion of the melee on video and it was later shared with the Times.
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Suarez said the youths remained at the center after the incident, but on Tuesday got into another fight with a guard, and one youth was arrested.
She said a sheriff’s deputy is now on duty at the center around the clock.
County Supervisor Hilda Solis, who represents the area, said in statement that she had directed Department of Children and Family Services Director Philip Browning to take further measures to improve safety and security at the center and to “help find alternative placement for the most at-risk minors” and provide mental health services to those who need them. LA Times
Riverside CA Aug 15 2015 A man who police believe knocked out and then beat a security guard while he was unconscious has been arrested.
Anthony James Pearce, 27, was arrested at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, and booked into the Southwest Detention Center on suspicion of battery causing serious injury, assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm and committing a crime while in a post-release community supervision program, jail logs show.
He is being held in jail without bail, the logs show.
The security guard, José Sigaran, had a broken nose and damage to his eyes that left him blind for several days, he said in an interview Friday, Aug. 14.
He had no injuries to the rest of his body, he said.
“I think he really just wanted to destroy my face,” Sigaran said.
The beating was sparked by a run-in he had with the suspect while working guard duty at the downtown bus terminal on University Avenue near Market Street Tuesday morning, Aug. 11, Riverside police officials said in a news release.
The guard saw Pearce, who loiters around the terminal regularly, smoking marijuana, Sigaran said.
When he ordered the suspect to leave, Pearce complied, but he made threats against the guard’s life as he left, Sigaran said.
About an hour later — about noon — the victim was walking to a nearby grocery store when Pearce ambushed him in front of Jersey Burger in the 3900 block of University Avenue, Sigaran said.
What happened next was a blur to the guard, he said, but he thinks the suspect hit him with his skateboard, knocking him out.
But that didn’t stop the suspect, police said.
Pearce stood over Sigaran’s unconscious body and punched him repeatedly in the face, Riverside police Officer Cheryl Hayes said.
Paramedics took the man to a hospital where he got stitches and was referred to specialists to get surgery on his nose and eye sockets, he said.
After the attack, officers got surveillance video from a local business and saw the suspect. He was recognizable by his distinctive shoes, socks and skateboard, the release said.
The next day about 4:20 p.m., an officer spotted Pearce near Mission Inn Avenue and Orange Street. He resembled the man in the video, so the officer took him into custody, police said.
At a police station, Pearce admitted to being involved in the fight, the release said.
Sigaran is a kind man and a great husband and father of five, said Danielle Cott, an Irvine resident and long-time friend.
“He’s a calm, good guy,” she said. “There’s nothing he would have done to provoke this.”
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Dallas ISD police believe this surveillance photo shows the car involved in a drive-by shooting at the Hood Middle School campus. (Photo: Dallas ISD).Security
DALLAS — Surveillance cameras outside Hood Middle School in Dallas captured images of a car in a drive-by shooting early Wednesday morning.
Their target was an armed security guard hired to protect construction equipment at the school in Southeast Dallas.
Dallas Independent School District Police Chief Craig Miller said there were two men in the vehicle. “We know that one of the Hispanic males steps out of the car and says, ‘F the police,’ and at that point, he fires multiple rounds at the officer,” Miller said.
WASHINGTON — A D.C. man has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and theft after he allegedly stabbing a Macy’s security guard in downtown D.C. Tuesday afternoon. Metropolitan Police Department detectives arrested 26-year-old …
Detectives said the security guard followed the suspect to the store’s underground entrance. The suspect eventually turned around and stabbed the employee in the shoulder and wrist. Police searched for the suspect, but was able to flee the area …
A suspected shoplifter at the Macy’s store in downtown D.C. stabbed a security guard Tuesday afternoon, Metro Transit Police say. The guard was attacked at 1201 G St. NW — close to the Metro Center Metro station — D.C. police said. Officials arrived …
After a bit of muckraking, CBS determined that the guard, a man named Glenn Hearn, has been working nights as the liquor store’s security …
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THE LAW SAYS YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO JOIN A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS SECURITY UNION
The Law: The National Labor Relations Act forbids employers from interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of rights relating to organizing, forming, joining or assisting a labor organization for collective bargaining purposes, or from working together to improve terms and conditions of employment, or refraining from any such activity. Similarly, labor organizations may not restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of these rights.
Examples of employer conduct that violates the law:
Threatening employees with loss of jobs or benefits if they join or vote for a union or engage in protected concerted activity.
Threatening to close the plant if employees select a union to represent them. Questioning employees about their union sympathies or activities in circumstances that tend to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of their rights under the Act.
Promising benefits to employees to discourage their union support. Transferring, laying off, terminating, assigning employees more difficult work tasks, or otherwise punishing employees because they engaged in union or protected concerted activity.
Transferring, laying off, terminating, assigning employees more difficult work tasks, or otherwise punishing employees because they filed unfair labor practice charges or participated in an investigation conducted by NLRB.
Rights of Employees
Sec. 7. [§ 157.] Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment as authorized in section 8(a)(3) [section 158(a)(3) of this title]. What rules govern collective bargaining for a contract? After employees choose a union as a bargaining representative, the employer and union are required to meet at reasonable times to bargain in good faith about wages, hours, vacation time, insurance, safety practices and other mandatory subjects. Some managerial decisions such as subcontracting, relocation, and other operational changes may not be mandatory subjects of bargaining, but the employer must bargain about the decision’s effects on unit employees.
It is an unfair labor practice for either party to refuse to bargain collectively with the other, but parties are not compelled to reach agreement or make concessions.
IT’S ALWAYSwise to take full advantage ofYOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.
WITH A UNION, the employer must bargain and pay the wages negotiated.
WITH A UNION, your rights on the job are spelled out and must be respected.
WITH A UNION, you can stop abuses on the job. The union can prevent unjust and unfair treatment by giving you representation on the job and the right to file grievances if you are treated unfairly.
WITH A UNION, you can negotiate for better holiday pay, vacations, health and welfare benefits, and job conditions.
WITH A UNION, you have greater security on your job. Company management cannot fire you without good reason and they must respect your length of service if there are layoffs.
WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS?
It is unlawful for your employer or supervisor to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees seeking to organize or join a union.
What employers and supervisors can NOT do:
1) They CANNOT tell employees that the Employer will fire or punish them if they engage in union activity.
2) They CANNOTlay off or discharge any employee for union activity
3) They CANNOT grant employees wage increases or special concessions in order to keep the union out.
4) They CANNOT bar employee union representatives from talking with members during non-working hours.
5) They CANNOT ask employees about confidential union matters, meetings, etc.
6) They CANNOT ask employees about the union or about union representatives.
7) They CANNOT ask employees how they intend to vote.
8) They CANNOT ask employees whether or not they belong to a union or have signed up for a union.
9) They CANNOT by the nature of the work assignment, create conditions intended to get rid of an employee because of his or her union activity.
10) They CANNOT threaten workers or coerce them in an attempt to influence their vote.
11) They CANNOT tell employees that existing benefits will be discontinued if the institution is unionized. )
12) They CANNOT say unionization will force the employer to lay off workers.
13) They CANNOT say unionization will take away vacations or other benefits and privileges presently in effect.
14) They CANNOT promise employees promotions, raise or other benefits if they get out of the union or refrain from joining it.
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As he ran from the mall to a getaway car, a security guard was right on his heels and as the teen jumped into the car, a struggle ensued and the security guard fired when he thought he saw the man going for a gun. People have mixed views on the guard’s …
The man walked into RK & Co. Jewelers and asked to see the ring. Police say he put it on his finger, then ran off. A store security guard chased the man, who got into a waiting car. Police say the guard saw the man reaching out of sight, possibly for a …
A private security guard at the Mondawmin Mall discharged a weapon on the property. Police said the incident occurred at 4:42 p.m. Sunday. The security guard chased a robber fleeing RK Jewelers outside and caught up the suspect at a vehicle. Related.
The store security guard chased the man into the parking lot, where the man climbed into a waiting getaway car, police said. The security guard grabbed the door of the car, then saw the man reaching out of sight, possibly for a weapon, and fired at the …
RUTLAND – A 20-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly strangling a security guard and rendering the guard unconscious at the College of Saint Joseph, Rutland City Police said Sunday. Justin Stevens of West Rutland has been arrested on suspicion …
A 20-year-old Vermont man has been taken into custody on charges that he choked a college security guard until he was unconscious. Authorities say Justin Stevens was arrested Sunday and charged with suspicion of aggravated assault and disorderly …
Rutland City Police said they responded at 12:20 a.m. to a report that a vehicle had tried to run over a security guard. Police said Justin Stevens chased down the unnamed public safety officer, placed him in a chokehold, and knocked him out. Police …
The republic’s police said in a statement that the private security guard called in to report that “from 4 to 5 in the morning, around 20 unidentified …
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Omaha Police say on Friday night around 11:15 p.m., 44-year-old Troy Travis was traveling southbound on 24th St. near the Seward Street intersection when his motorcycle struck a car turning onto Seward St. Police say witnesses tell them Travis was …
“He loved people, he’d help anybody,” said mom Estella. “Give them the shirt off his back.” Travis was a security guard for 12 years at his alma mater, Benson High School. His family told WOWT 6 News he did much more than protect students. He’d give …
Travis worked as a security guard at Benson High School for 12 years. He graduated from the school in 1989, according to Omaha Public School officials. “We all are in the same place,” said Anita Harkins, principal of Benson High School. “We just can’t …
Alonzo and Estella Guliford find comfort with the memory of how their son lived his life. “He loved people, he’d help anybody,” said mom Estella. “Give them the shirt off his back.” Travis was a security guard for 12 years at his alma mater, Benson …
PORTLAND, Maine —An overnight security guard at One City Center in Portland was not hurt after being shot at early Friday morning. Portland security guard describes altercation with man… A security guard at Portland’s One City Center was shot at …
PORTLAND (WGME) — A man fired four shots from a high powered pellet gun at Mike Conicelli, an overnight security guard at One City Center in Portland. Police say they have the shooter Anjay Narayanan in custody after the guard chased him down.
PORTLAND, Maine — Police say a transient is in custody after firing several shots from a high-powered pellet gun at a security guard outside a downtown building in Maine’s largest city. The unarmed security guard, Mike Conicelli, said he got into an …
PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Portland Police arrested Ajay Narayanan early Friday morning after an altercation in front of One City Center involving a security guard. Police say the suspect shot a pellet gun at the guard. Overnight security guard …
Ajay Narayan, whose address is not listed, was apparently asked by a security guard to move at about 5:30 a.m. because he was blocking the entry to Dunkin’ Donuts in the ground floor of One City Center. Narayan produced a pellet gun, and then fled in …
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