Good guy with a gun...

[Benton]

(11-13-2018, 11:58 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: True, he won't have the same training as an LEO, but he has his armed card, which means he's had firearms training.  Even so, is it not common sense to think that the uniformed officers arriving on scene have no idea who is who, especially if the guard is not in a uniform, and will thus treat anyone armed as potentially dangerous?

That makes some assumptions into the situation, though. His level of training, his clothing and even the knowledge of the officers beforehand. He may have thought dispatch relayed that a security guard had the individual restrained, and that information may not have been communcated with the officer. There's a lot of 'what ifs' without a lot of info. We do know people there were saying he was security, which goes back to my thinking that the officer could have had a better response than just shooting.