According to Fox news
Private security guards hired to keep people out of a city-owned park in Seattle during off hours, left during their first shift after they were verbally harassed.
Cal Anderson Park has been closed since June 30 and was cleared Tuesday so the city could make repairs to a field house damaged in the protests. During a search of several tents, officers and park staff found a machete, a hatchet, makeshift shields and homemade spike strips.
Officers recover weapons, shields, and spike strips during park cleanup. https://t.co/5buRUpPQNk pic.twitter.com/ZPPzPuoVJA
— Seattle Police Department (@SeattlePD) September 2, 2020
“I went there to make sure, as the owner of the company, that nothing serious would go down. I wanted to make sure everything was going to be cool,” McGhee said. “As soon as we entered that park, they started verbally attacking us … calling us all kinds of names like ‘sellouts’ and [telling us] what they would do to us.”
Someone also shined a bright light at McGhee and his employees that made it hard to identify who they were, he said. He disputed media reports that he was chased out of the park.
He said he called police and was instructed to walk to the sidewalk and wait for officers. A video shows three security guards walking toward the street as some people, mostly wearing black, shout at them.
The guards were armed, but not looking for a fight, McGhee said. They were “seasoned” were “not trying to go to jail.” Jaguar Security did not return to the park Wednesday.
Seattle Parks and Recreation spokeswoman Rachel Schulkin told Fox News the city is working with Jaguar on a “night-by-night” basis as “we reassess daily the security needs for Cal Anderson Park.”