Gun, knife and NARCAN: One man's 7 weeks of working Edmonton transit security
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He says he was bear sprayed twice, had a gun waved at him and was attacked with a knife – and that was just in the first seven weeks of working security for Edmonton Transit Service.
He says he was bear sprayed twice, had a gun waved at him and was attacked with a knife – and that was just in the first seven weeks of working security for Edmonton Transit Service.
A local man is opening up about his experience and he showed off a bag of paperwork to back up his claims.
“The young lady hit me with her purse…0300 hours in the morning when I was bear sprayed,” the man said while fingering through witness statements he made to Edmonton Police Service.
CTV News Edmonton has agreed not to name him for safety reasons. He's been in the security industry for decades and was recently hired, through a contractor, to watch over LRT stations.
“The city just wants us to observe and report,” he said. “It is the worst because we are not allowed to do anything.”
He tells of the time he attempted to protect a lady who asked a man to stop vandalizing city property.
"She had said something to him about smartening up. And he goes, 'You want to say that?' And next you know he bear sprayed her. I actually tried to stop him and I got a short burst in the face," he recalls.
