4 Responses to “these security guards should be tried for manslaughter.”

1. James Smith
   January 31st, 2014 @ 3:01 am

   Repeat crimes that they witnessed from the cops, where they got away with cold blooded murder. They just want to be like mike. Pure scum.

2. James Smith
   January 31st, 2014 @ 3:03 am

   That’s not man slaughter that’s murder, period.

3. courage
   January 31st, 2014 @ 8:45 am

   Over reaction to recent mall shooting. Could autopsy with toxicology report be beneficial? Does appear to be possible mental problems…

   A 25-year-old Ferndale man died Tuesday night after security guards pepper-sprayed him during a confrontation at Northland Center mall in Southfield, police said.

   The incident occurred at 5:40 p.m. in the mall’s corridor outside the LA Diamonds jewelry store, after the man told the store owner he wanted to kill somebody, Southfield police Lt. Nick Loussia said today. Paramedics took the man to Providence Hospital in Southfield, where he was pronounced dead at about 6:40 p.m., Loussia said.

   “Our investigation showed no sign of blunt trauma” that might indicate the man had been beaten, Loussia said. The cause of death is pending while toxicology tests are performed to see whether drugs or alcohol played a role, the Oakland County Medical Examiner’s Office said. No charges have been filed in the case.

   The incident began when the store’s owner saw the man staring into LA Diamonds’ showcase windows and “looking angry,” so he walked into the corridor to speak to him, Loussia said.

   “The guy told him, ‘I want to kill somebody,’ and that’s when the business owner called security,” Loussia said. The man was “not cooperative” with the guards, and when it looked like he might assault them, they pepper-sprayed him and began handcuffing him as he resisted, he said.

   “That’s when they realized he’d stopped breathing,” Loussia said.

   “When police arrived, he was (found to be) handcuffed, seated against a pillar (and) not breathing,” Loussia said.

   A man who answered the phone today at LA Diamonds, formerly Corey’s Jewel Box, declined to discuss the incident and hung up. But the owner of another jewelry store in the mall said he was familiar with the incident after seeing a video shot by a shopper. He said it looked as if the guards sat on the man after pepper-spraying him.

   “From what I saw, the three guards were really laying on him,” said Dan Hutchinson, owner of Hutch’s Jewelry.

   “He was saying, ‘I can’t breathe — I can’t breathe.’ They said, ‘If you can talk, you can breathe,’ ” Hutchinson said.

   Brent Reeves, general manager of Northland Center, said: “I was told they did not” sit on the man. Reeves said guards told him that the man, when asked to leave the mall, refused and “made fists and pumped up his muscles.”

   After subduing the man and leaning him against a pillar, “the guards just assumed he was sitting there peacefully” and were unaware that he had stopped breathing, he said.

   Contact Bill Laitner: 313-223-4485 or blaitner@freepress.com

4. Sandy Beach
   January 31st, 2014 @ 10:44 am

   “The store owner asked if he could be of assistance and the pair left the area,” Louissa said. “The store owner said they showed up again the next day, returned to the store and were again acting suspiciously. When the owner asked if he needed anything, the deceased said he ‘wanted to kill somebody.’ The store owner contacted mall security who responded and attempted to interview the subject and a struggle ensued, and he was pepper sprayed.”

   https://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140130/METRO02/301300073/1361/Autopsy-shows-no-trauma-signs-on-man-who-died-after-being-pepper-sprayed-at-Southfield-mall

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