IDK if it was a full moon, or something in the rain but I have never seen as many fights at the Mall of Louisiana in a single 8 hour period than I did yesterday. We get our normal mouthy teenagers on the weekends but yesterday was a totally different animal. Security and EBRSO were busy all day but one incident hit very close to home,
My store is in the outside Blvd section just down from the Apple store. Around 5pm I heard this awful scream I look outside and this young democrat has a teenager about 60 lbs his junior on the ground pounding the hell out of him. I told my staff to call security and lock the doors while I went outside. Myself and another store manager broke up the initial fight and separated the two. No sooner than we turned our back, the agressor jumped the teen again, this time hitting him with a chair and started to slam his head into the concrete. This time several of us separated the two and held him til security finally arrived.
I am not a police officer, I am not mall security. I understand that it was not my responsibility to break up this fight and probably pretty foolish of me to go rushing into the situation where I could have been injured. I'm sorry though I could not with good conscious just stand there and wait for mall security to arrive and watch this kid get his head smashed it. The packs were definiately circling when the fight started. I don't think it would have taken much longer for several others to jump in and make this a really bad day for the victim.
Here's the good part. I was informed by my boss that I maybe facing disciplinary action up to and including termination due to the fact that I physically restrained a mall patron while working. I guess no good deed goes unpunished and in some peoples eyes its better to observe and report rather than help someone.
Either way I was able to sleep with a clear conscious last night.
My store is in the outside Blvd section just down from the Apple store. Around 5pm I heard this awful scream I look outside and this young democrat has a teenager about 60 lbs his junior on the ground pounding the hell out of him. I told my staff to call security and lock the doors while I went outside. Myself and another store manager broke up the initial fight and separated the two. No sooner than we turned our back, the agressor jumped the teen again, this time hitting him with a chair and started to slam his head into the concrete. This time several of us separated the two and held him til security finally arrived.
I am not a police officer, I am not mall security. I understand that it was not my responsibility to break up this fight and probably pretty foolish of me to go rushing into the situation where I could have been injured. I'm sorry though I could not with good conscious just stand there and wait for mall security to arrive and watch this kid get his head smashed it. The packs were definiately circling when the fight started. I don't think it would have taken much longer for several others to jump in and make this a really bad day for the victim.
Here's the good part. I was informed by my boss that I maybe facing disciplinary action up to and including termination due to the fact that I physically restrained a mall patron while working. I guess no good deed goes unpunished and in some peoples eyes its better to observe and report rather than help someone.
Either way I was able to sleep with a clear conscious last night.
That's being nice! Does he really want that "type of mall patron" (as he calls him) to visit his store? Is his business that bad?
I am sure that there will be plenty of job offers from members on this board who will appreciate you as an employee if that does happen. Keep us and The Advocate informed as to the outcome!! 
