Enforced law isn't pretty to watch.  It never is.  It's ugly, it can be violent, and it's not the type of thing that goes over well in polite society.  But it is, unfortunately: at times necessary.

One aspect about the nature of police officers, security people, etc., etc. that you have to keep in mind -- their job entails dealing with the absolute dregs of humanity on a regular basis.  People who would as soon kill you for the $5 in your pocket as to look at you -- and who would do it without so much as batting an eye, or feeling anything remotely resembling remorse.  After enough exposure to such individuals, the police -- or security guards -- (who are human, too) tend to become jaded about situations that members of the public who are rarely exposed to the violence involved can find to be quite upsetting.  In fact, the "jaded" quality is necessary to maintaining personal sanity.  If the necessity of using force to put down a perp is personally upsetting to a law enforcement officer -- a "law enforcement officer" of any type -- then that individual needs to look for a new line of work.  They are in the wrong job.

In this particular instance, I wasn't there: so I can't make any judgments about the incident in question, good or bad.  But I'd consider the possibility that the gawking bystanders had somehow already been made aware of the fact that the man involved in the altercation was store security -- and thus the bystanders did not challenge his actions for that reason.  But that's just a guess on my part.  It's also possible that they just did not care.  Which happens, too.

BTW - speaking of nurses -- one of my co-worker's sons works security detail for a major university hospital.  He regularly has to run to various points throughout the complex in order to forcibly subdue violent people.......in the type of environment where you wouldn't expect violent people to be.........but they are.  Constantly.  IMO, it's a sign of our times.

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