content: I blame the security guard, frankly. But given the fact this kid had a history of mental health treatment at this facility, common sense tells me that the young man had a reputation of stirring things up. I couldn't get this video to load, but I saw the video and the story as it was circulating in the news. The footage I saw clearly shows the kid shoving his own mother several times outside of the car. His mother had brought him there to submit him for treatment. When the security guard saw the boy putting hands on his mother, he basically came out of the door and body slammed the kid. There were several times the guard shoved the kid to the ground. The kid did not calm down and stop the agitated/aggressive behavior. What I gathered was that other personnel at the hospital called the cops, cops showed up and probably saw the kid acting agitated, they arrived on the report the kid was being violent, and so they tackled him to the ground. Should the cops have assessed the situation prior to escalating? Yes. But I really blame the hospital security guard for immediately coming out of the door and throwing the kid around like a rag doll. Of course a mentally unhealthy young man already acting aggressively is going to get even more agitated when he is assaulted. This wasn't the way to handle this situation. Either the security guard should have called the cops and stayed out of it, or used some reasonable means to secure the kid and restrain him - not just keep beating up on him without actually descalating the situation. Security guard is a fucking moron.