Video Foreign tourist assaulted by security guard after being denied entry at Don Mueang

[Artisi]

1 minute ago, Nyezhov said:

Yeah, try that at a US airport and see what happens.

Some years back I was sitting quietly in Heathrow watching the world go by when a "passenger" started arguing with a staff member, this went on for a minute or two before the passenger started raising his voice and appearing to become a little hostile, this lasted about 30 seconds before 4 heavily armed police just appeared from nowhere - that certainly brought the discussion to a very abrupt conclusion. 

[baansgr]

The outright nastiness is oozing from the middle to the outer boundaries and has now even reached outside of immigration. Are we in despot banana republic as my views on this place are becoming more jaded everyday with the rudeness, laziness, blatant racism and feeling of not being wanted here at all.

[NCC1701A]

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/director-and-security-chief-of-don-mueang-airport-suspended-over-assault-against-chinese-tourist/

 

Meanwhile, Pol Col Choengron Rimpadee, deputy superintendent of the immigration police dismissed the tourist’s claim that immigration officials had demanded 2,000 baht from him for a visa on arrival in addition to the normal fee of 2,000 baht.

 

 

[anchadian]

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/director-and-security-chief-of-don-mueang-airport-suspended-over-assault-against-chinese-tourist/

 

Director of Don Mueang international airport and its the director for security were on Saturday suspended from active duty for 30 days pending an investigation into an incident at the airport in which  Chinese tourist was assaulted by a security guard on Thursday night.

[NCC1701A]

1 minute ago, anchadian said:

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/director-and-security-chief-of-don-mueang-airport-suspended-over-assault-against-chinese-tourist/

 

Director of Don Mueang international airport and its the director for security were on Saturday suspended from active duty for 30 days pending an investigation into an incident at the airport in which  Chinese tourist was assaulted by a security guard on Thursday night.

wow we posted the same thing at exactly the same time

Edited September 29, 2018 by NCC1701A

[tropo]

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

So the guard will lose his job, for doing his job,he had been denied 

entry to Thailand ,so goes on walkabout in airport,he refused to stay

in the detention room!,sounds like he was trying to enter Thailand anyway.

regards worgeordie

No, he most certainly was not doing his job. Attempting to whack foreign nationals in the head out of anger and frustration is not on any security guard's job description. He's not cut out for the job. 

[Argus Tuft]

17 minutes ago, Artisi said:

Some years back I was sitting quietly in Heathrow watching the world go by when a "passenger" started arguing with a staff member, this went on for a minute or two before the passenger started raising his voice and appearing to become a little hostile, this lasted about 30 seconds before 4 heavily armed police just appeared from nowhere - that certainly brought the discussion to a very abrupt conclusion. 

I believe this - but I'm betting one of the police didn't punch the passenger in the face in full view of bystanders - they would have had more self-control and handled it better than this case

[NCC1701A]

you can't tell anything from a video that starts mid event.

 

you need to see everything that led up to the guards reaction. you have no idea what the belligerent Chinese moron did to cause the guard to do what he did.

 

 

[tropo]

1 hour ago, hansnl said:

And what about the Chinese?

Thailand has to bow backwards for a guy making trouble because he is refused entry, and the guard will lose his job?

Shameful.

No, Thailand just has to hire security guards that can handle such situations better. Better training and more careful recruitment are all it will take.

 

What happens to the Chinese national is irrelevant. He will be processed according to standard protocol. All the security guards had to do was grab him and take him to whatever room they use to restrain people, and have a superior officer handle it.

[tropo]

3 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

you can't tell anything from a video that starts mid event.

 

you need to see everything that led up to the guards reaction. you have no idea what the belligerent Chinese moron did to cause the guard to do what he did.

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Nothing that happened before is relevant. Are you suggesting that security guards can have reasons to punch people in the head? If that is standard practice, they better start training him how to box because his punch was pathetic.

[NCC1701A]

7 minutes ago, tropo said:

Nothing that happened before is relevant. Are you suggesting that security guards can have reasons to punch people in the head? If that is standard practice, they better start training him how to box because his punch was pathetic.

really. it is? what if the Chinese person had just punched the guard in the face? or kicked him in the balls? or spit on him? he would have every right to do what he did. no one knows what happened before the video started. The guard is from Thailand. NO ONE receives training. The Chinese person was totally at fault for leaving the holding area and trying to leave. He is in violation of many immigration and airport security regulations including resisting arrest and should be handcuffed while laying face down on the ground, escorted by two guards and taken to a Thai jail.

[tropo]

6 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

really. it is? what if the Chinese person had just punched the guard in the face? or kicked him in the balls? or spit on him? he would have every right to do what he did. no one knows what happened before the video started. The guard is from Thailand. NO ONE receives training. The Chinese person was totally at fault for leaving the holding area and trying to leave. He is in violation of many immigration and airport security regulations including resisting arrest and should be handcuffed while laying face down on the ground, escorted by two guards and taken to a Thai jail.

It makes no difference if the Chinese guy took a swing at him or not, although I very much doubt he did. Security guards are not hired to fight but to restrain. That's one of the reasons why they have more than one. Despite you not getting it, at least his superiors realise he made a big mistake and took appropriate action by suspending him and apologizing to the Chinese Ambassador.

 

Wild punches to the head with bare hands can be classified as high risk, potentially deadly force as there's a risk of serious concussion and death. Certainly, the risk of serious injury is high.

 

 

[CharlieH]

Reported Offensive remark removed.

[zzaa09]

Damn trouble making foreigners.

 

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[grego49]

Sucking up to chinese as usuall 

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

After the Phuket mass drownings, the Thais are, so to speak, bending over backwards to keep the Chinese tourist flow and money happily coming.

 

From the article, it sounds like the Chinese guy was correctly denied entry and may have been otherwise misbehaving. But regardless, I don't think any of that justifies an airport security guard taking a swing at the guy.  In that regard, he probably deserves to lose his job, but not because the Chinese guy was in the right.

 

[Happy Grumpy]

3 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

a security guard at Don Mueang airport assaulting a Chinese tourist has gone viral.

 

Just 10 million more to go. 

[BestB]

On the one hand it looks really bad but on the other hand not only we do not know what Chinese was doing prior to pissing off the guard but if you ever dealt with Chinese , some can be quite rough , rude and insulting and do get physical.

 

So personally I would reserve my judgement until I know what actually happened for guard to snap

Edited September 29, 2018 by BestB

[baboon]

2 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

"He was then taken to an immigration detention room but refused to stay and reentered the airport."

In other countries he would be eating bullets. 

Hang on a minute - "In other countries he would be eating bullets".

Which countries exactly would gun an angry but unarmed man down in cold blood for making a bit of a nuisance of himself?

[samsensam]

3 hours ago, hansnl said:

And what about the Chinese?

Thailand has to bow backwards for a guy making trouble because he is refused entry, and the guard will lose his job?

Shameful.

 

the guard was unprofessional; either untrained in which case his superiors have questions to answer, or not following his training in which case he has questions to answer.

[moe666]

2 hours ago, Classic Ray said:

Surprised in a large international airport to never see any armed police patrolling to counter terrorism. See one occasionally whizzing somewhere on a Segway, but nothing similar to the armed patrols in Europe or the US. 

 

Police may have slightly better training than a 300 baht/day security guard, although violence seems the first tactic for both security and police here.

Thailand isn't as paranoid as Europe and the US

[moe666]

This guy wasn't a tourist he was in transit and not allowed to enter Thailand. The Chinese seem to think they can come and go as they see fit

[baboon]

24 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

After the Phuket mass drownings, the Thais are, so to speak, bending over backwards to keep the Chinese tourist flow and money happily coming.

 

From the article, it sounds like the Chinese guy was correctly denied entry and may have been otherwise misbehaving. But regardless, I don't think any of that justifies an airport security guard taking a swing at the guy.  In that regard, he probably deserves to lose his job, but not because the Chinese guy was in the right.

 

Which prompts a question: OK, he had been denied entry, so why was this gentleman not in Immigration custody? 

The actions of this security guard might well be in question, but then why was airport security left to deal with him? Where were the Immigration police?

[SammyT]

1 hour ago, baansgr said:

The outright nastiness is oozing from the middle to the outer boundaries and has now even reached outside of immigration. Are we in despot banana republic as my views on this place are becoming more jaded everyday with the rudeness, laziness, blatant racism and feeling of not being wanted here at all.

Head back to your home country if Thailand is that bad comparatively? Oh that's right, you'll probably never do that, you'd just rather complain. 

[baboon]

4 minutes ago, SammyT said:

Head back to your home country if Thailand is that bad comparatively? Oh that's right, you'll probably never do that, you'd just rather complain. 

How does heading for home solve any perceived injustice in the country one happens to be physically present in? Do incidents not take place if you are not there?

[fasteddie]

Is that guard a Katoey by night? that weren't no manslap ????

[Rhys]

Quite hard to remain calm, what an AH is in your face... at least this was not a US Airport, would the Chinese person remain in one piece?

[White Christmas13]

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

On the video,we don't know what happened before the guard 

hit him,if the Chinese had stayed where he was supposed to

in the detention area,this would never have happened,some of

these Chinese deserve a slap,they can be very arrogant.

Thailand a bit quick off the mark to grovel to the Chinese.

 

regards worgeordie

stick to your milk bar

[SuperTed]

1. The Chinese guy was being an a** and clearly making up his story about being asked for a bribe.

 

2. Mainland online reaction to the video is from their rabid nationalism. Look out for China, they will devour you, believing it is their right. Many other Asians refer to them as Locusts.

 

3. Try doing this in an airport in China, US or EU. You will go directly to jail. Thais are too kind!

 

4. Thailand is absolutely too quick to bow to China. Shameful!

 

 

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[NaamGin]

Must not offend the country with the largest block of tourists that visit Thailand, even when they act like ignorant cvnts and ignore your laws.