The security guard at the Edgewater library did her magic again yesterday—but allegedly—and harassed a possibly homeless girl out of the building by making sure somebody would call the police. This must be reported as a random and hypothetical situation of the sort that would be inappropriate. No charges were filed.
In what some patrons insist is simply a repeat performance, the guard (A.) allegedly created a big scene and randomly got a homeless girl (B.) escorted out of what she (B.) was screaming is “her library” (B.).
This has happened before in a random and hypothetical situation of the sort StreetSense has reported on. The guard creates a terrible situation when the employees are outside the lab. Once they return, they react immediately and call police to come and help with the person being attacked.
The security guard does not even have to be the one who calls the (unknowing) police who think it is the possibly homeless girl who is the culprit.
So what supposedly happened yesterday?
The security guard allegedly picked out the girl to attack her—although people in the lab were talking on their cellphones all afternoon, staff members were talking with patrons at the desk and also talking on the phone, and two boys were laughing and joking quite loudly (with the security guard staring at them and doing nothing) and not even mentioning the HUGE group of teenagers talking and laughing in one of the study rooms…
One patron, Earl T., mentioned that “everything was quiet and peaceful” until the guard went to the girl to harass her about reading a magazine while she was seated in front of a computer. The girl had several bags near her and was reading peacefully. “There did not seem to be any shortage of computers, or any confusion about who was seated where…” reported Earl (later at Walgreens where it was safe to discuss the alleged event).
Suddenly, the guard (reportedly) went over to the girl and started an argument, which escalated, as planned. No employees were present.
The guard returned to her station (perhaps to wait for the clueless employees to come into the lab).
Soon, a male employee (C.) entered the lab and went over to listen to the girl who was complaining loudly about being harassed, as she said, “in my library!”
He left the lab and a female employee (D.) entered to listen to the girl complaining loudly. Again, this entire account is allegedly what happened.
The police came, an argument happened, and the homeless girl went out into the cold.
The police get used. They don’t know better. It is unknown what was said on the phone—or by whom—when they were called.
Four big officers to escort a little girl out of the public PUBLIC library.
The “perhaps homeless” girl to to stay outside where it was cold and windy and maybe in a situation with no food whatsoever for her to eat.
The alleged bully (security guard) got to stay in where it was warm and would undoubtedly later “after working hard all day” go home to a warm—and enormous—dinner in a warm home.
The female employee was said to try to make it clear nobody was supposed to talk about what had happened or they would be asked to leave. She allegedly did not want anyone to “disturb the other patrons.”
She perhaps did not want the truth to be shared.
It is unknown how this guard goes on working in the library and making it a workplace one of the employees said she “dreaded” coming to. This is factual. Sorry. That is what the employee said the last time we talked about this security guard “allegedly” doing this sort of thing.
A workplace the employee “dreaded” coming to.
The homeless girl was thrown out of the library for three alleged reasons:
1) The security guard is a bully;
2) The security guard likes to harass people who might be homeless; and
3) The “might-be-homeless” girl was reading in a library.