05-09-2016, 04:50 PM
(05-09-2016, 04:31 PM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: A security officer no matter how you slice it. You can slap a patch on him and give him a badge and a gun. The guy at my local grocery store has all of those things too. Doesn't make him a cop.
No one ever said that he wasn't a security officer; police officers can be local, state or federal and serve in many capacities. Securing people/areas/properties is sometimes part or all of their law enforcement/policing responsibilities.
YOU said he wasn't a 'cop' and that he was only a security 'guard'. That's inaccurate.
Tordil was a cop who worked to secure and enforce laws at federal properties. He wore a "police" uniform and had police powers. He was not simply a private or contracted 'security guard' who held no police powers.
But, as I said, I don't care if you view the suspect according to your own personal definitions/classifications and liken him to a rent-a-cop at the grocery store.