Gate 2 at the Beach Park Concert
You are one of 14 guards at a permitted outdoor concert at a county beach park. Attendance is roughly 4,800 and rising. You are posted at the mauka pedestrian gate with one partner who has no restraints. At 20:10 a fight breaks out among three men about 20 feet inside the gate. One of them goes down, is bleeding from the mouth, and begins a full-body seizure. The crowd around them is closing in and pushing toward the gate. Your radio is on event channel 2, which is handling a lost-child report; the medical team is on channel 3. Your first aid kit is on your belt. The AED is 200 yards away at the main gate with the medical tent. Event security has two police officers on site but they are at the stage, 400 yards away.
1. Give your action sequence for the next three minutes, in order, with the reasoning for the order.
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Space, medical, then the other two men. First, you and your partner create a perimeter of about 10 feet by backing the crowd with voice and open hands - a seizing man on the ground in a surging crowd will be stepped on, and you cannot treat him while people are falling over you. Second, clear a space, protect his head with something soft, do not put anything in his mouth, do not hold his limbs, and time the seizure; when it stops, roll him to the recovery position and check breathing. Third, ask the medical team on channel 3 for a medic to the mauka gate; keep the AED at the main gate unless the seizure is followed by absent breathing - 200 yards is far, but a cardiac arrest changes that calculation. Fourth, separate the other two men by voice and get descriptions, because the officers are 400 yards out and identities are lost in 30 seconds.
2. Write the radio traffic you actually send, and explain the channel choice.
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Channel 3: 'Gate 2 to medical, medical at the mauka gate, one adult male, facial bleeding, active seizure, crowd of about 40 around us, need a medic and an officer to the mauka gate now.' Then channel 2, one short transmission: 'Gate 2 to command, medical and officers to the mauka gate, fight in progress, two outstanding subjects detained by description only.' Say your location first, because units move while you talk. Keep medical off channel 2, which is saturated with the lost-child report and will clip your transmission. Ask your partner to relay if you cannot get through, and do not leave the subject to find a better radio position - the partner moves, not you.
3. The crowd pushes forward and one of the other two men moves toward the downed man. What force, if any, is available to you?
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Voice and body position first. Step between them and give one clear instruction - 'Back up, he's seizing, medics are coming' - and keep your hands visible and open. As a private guard your force ceiling is what any citizen may use to defend a person from harm: necessary, proportionate, and ending when the threat ends. A two-handed push to create distance to protect a seizing man is defensible; a strike, a takedown, or putting weight on someone's back is not justified here and creates positional asphyxia risk on a person who may already have a head injury. Handcuffing a seizing person is never appropriate. If either man produces a weapon or continues to attack, disengage, keep the crowd back, and hand the situation to the police officers when they arrive.