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Video: Atlanta mall cop tases violent mom

BY Jillian Raftery  on February 4, 2013 @ 12:44 pm (Updated: 1:31 pm - 2/4/13 )


Warning: This video contains strong language.

Dori is praising an Atlanta mall cop for standing his ground Friday when a woman took a swing at him in front of her children.

Darien Long wears a camera around his neck during his patrols around the Atlanta mall where he works as a security guard. On Friday, Darien was trying to keep a group of loud, unruly children from coming back into the mall when he was approached by one of the two mothers of the group of at least six or seven young children.

The video shows the mom hurling insults as the children join in, egged on by their mothers. As the mothers hurl racial slurs, the children shout "You gay, you gay." The unnamed mother starts pushing up against Darien, who tells her to "back up." When the woman finally took a swing at Darien, he tased her.

Reports showed later that the two moms in the video were arrested and charged with seven misdemeanors between them.

Darien said later that he was just doing his part to make the neighborhood safe for families and businesses.

"What you need to do is clean up the neighborhood so that other businesses can come in and then downtown Atlanta can prosper," said Darien in an interview with a local CBS reporter.

But the headlines in some of the first reports told a far different story, accusing Darien of attacking the mom.

"The headline: 'Shock Video: Mall security guard tases mom in front of her children,'" said Dori.

Now the community has banded together to create an online fundraiser to thank Darien for his service and to show their support.

"People are standing up for this security guard," said Dori.

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  • Clearwater3 wrote...
    What do you know...
    February 4, 2013 11:55 am
    ...another edition of the Dori Monson Non-white people behaving badly show.
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  • circuitfr wrote...
    umm.
    February 4, 2013 12:09 pm
    hey clearwater...it's a national story, people are raising money for the guard, a black man. Why do you always equate everything to race? Why does the skin color matter? It's people like you who are racist. Judge people on their actions, not their appearance....Sure would be nice to move forward in this Country instead of having simple minding people like you keeping the racism alive...
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  • Clearwater3 wrote...
    Ask yourself...
    February 4, 2013 12:12 pm
    ...how something like this becomes a national story.
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  • circuitfr wrote...
    because
    February 4, 2013 12:24 pm
    some guard doing his job is getting harassed and some mother is abusing her kids who have no SHOT in life by treating them like she did. CPS should take those kids away. That's WHY. ARRRRRGGGGGGGGG....hahaha...it's so frustrating that people think anything is racist....JUDGE PEOPLE BY THEIR ACTIONS!!!!!!
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    The use of Tasers is
    February 4, 2013 12:33 pm
    Out of control and dangerous. The Law Enforcement community (including mall cops)in the past could handle unruly individuals without shooting them,clubing them or tasing them.They are replacing Training with tasers its the easy cheaper way.
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  • circuitfr wrote...
    Tasers are way safer
    February 4, 2013 12:39 pm
    Um, you do realize crime and assault was about double 20 years go to what it is today....or do simple things like stats get in your way. Back in the day, BEATING someone was the way it was done along with a little pepper spray. Today, tasers are a much better compliance tool and they descalate thousands of situations just by the display. Every cop has to be tased, I've been tased and pepper sprayed..Let me tell you, I would rather be tased every day of the week before I ever get sprayed again or had to get in a physical fight. Tasers are fantastic tools. And before you say they kill people...Think about this....MILLIONS of law enforcement personel have been tased and not ONE has ever died. The people who die can die from the fall...that is important, but in any other cases, they were suffering from "excited delirium" and were so jacked up that they would of died if they had got in a fight or tased. People died all the time from fighting the cops when they were jacked up, you just never heard about it in the news.
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  • Theodorethegreat wrote...
    Messiah is
    February 4, 2013 2:04 pm
    more of an idiot with every word it types.
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  • imanegro wrote...
    hey, clearmoron
    February 4, 2013 2:26 pm
    Did you know that racists typically bring up race. People who aren't, usually don't.
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  • JH in SD wrote...
    Tazed & Confused
    February 4, 2013 1:29 pm
    No one has a right to be on private property. The shopping mall is private property and the owner has a right to refuse 'service' to those who do not abide by certain minimum behavior standards Which apparently this group violated.
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  • Theodorethegreat wrote...
    Nice job
    February 4, 2013 2:06 pm
    security guard. More should be like you. Put her in her place. Hope her brainiac family doesn't come after him now.
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  • Theodorethegreat wrote...
    The fall is
    February 4, 2013 2:09 pm
    hilarious. ha ha ha
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    Hmmm... justifiable in my opinion
    February 4, 2013 2:39 pm
    Lady just wouldn't stop, You all know as well as i do that he would have been hauled off to jail if he punched her back... using his taser was the right move... also... video taping the confrontation was the right move... people need to know The rest of the world shouldn't have to put up with your crap... you think you're unique and get to be unruly and out of hand and everybody else should just deal with it? No, you can't act right... and you physically assault somebody, you deserve to get tased... and what a terrible parent... now you know why there's so many messed up kids in our society... parents like that.
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  • RstyKnfe wrote...
    The guy at the end?
    February 4, 2013 7:39 pm
    No one here seems to care about the possible husband at the end, who seemed about to go crazy on the camera man. The article didn't even mention it.
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  • Theodorethegreat wrote...
    Dude at the end
    February 5, 2013 8:10 am
    sould have been zapped as well.
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  • Concerned US Citizen wrote...
    15 years
    February 5, 2013 5:38 am
    Circuitfr. I must agree that the kids should be removed from a household where the mothers have such poor values. I also believe she should be prevented from having anymore children by whatever means are possible. In 15 years those same children raised with her values will be shooting each other in the streets and the liberals will be still wringing their hands talking gun control.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    This is an obamanation
    February 5, 2013 7:37 am
    Fool stamps are causing obesity.
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  • Theodorethegreat wrote...
    Because the U.S.
    February 5, 2013 8:12 am
    has gotten fat in only the last 4 years. Honey Boo Boo is older than that. ha ha ha
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  • froggy wrote...
    Training for taser and pepper spray does not...
    February 5, 2013 9:21 am
    have to include being tased or sprayed. That is nonsense. Currently in the training academy they are spraying the recruits with pepper spray to show them what to expect, but they really don't have to do that. I am not aware if they are actually hooking them up to a taser and giving them a taste of that. But it would be unnecessary anyway. Why? Ok, by the reasoning that you have to know what it will be like, wouldn't you then have to shoot them with a gun to know the harm it would do to them? NO? Ok, then the same goes for the pepper spray and tasing. You don't need to go through it to know it will be bad for you. Just show me the movie where others have already been tased or sprayed to show the affects. I'll believe you when you train me the right way. I think it was just some sick sadistic training officer that came up with the idea that he could humiliate and create more pain for his trainees by convincing the administrators that spraying and tasing the trainees was the way to go. It is unnecessary. They do have to be trained on when, where, and how to use those tools, but having it applied to them is not necessary,
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  • Zoeller wrote...
    Nice!!!!!
    February 5, 2013 11:16 am
    This security guard deserves a metal.
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