Minneapolis is known for its vibrant downtown nightlife. With easy public transportation from a dozen colleges and universities and access to major sports and entertainment venues, things can get a little crazy. I interviewed a veteran female security guard with over a decade of experience at downtown bars about the differences in her experiences with men and women.
Tell me about your security training and experience in security in downtown Minneapolis bars.
I didn’t need any training when I started out in the suburbs. I did that for 3 years then I became head of security for about a year. A couple of years in, I attended a community college for further training and a degree. That experience and training led me to be head of security in downtown Minneapolis for a total of about 11 years.
What percentage of those security issues directly or indirectly involved women?
Probably 80%. More females actually cause problems than men, in my experience.
What are common patterns when females initiate, respond, or accelerate conflict?
It usually started with somebody talking to someone else’s boyfriend or an issue that happened out on the street between friends, then you add alcohol to it.
Women, especially at the downtown bars that I was at, because I was at an urban bar, they just don’t bite their tongues, and then it becomes a screaming match, hair pulling, and slapping and on the ground rolling around and yeah.
It starts out with them talking shit, but it gets physical very quickly.
Did women accelerate conflicts between men?
I believe there was a lot of instigating of the men. Not always but usually if the men were fighting it was because of the women. Some guy inappropriately touched her, there were inappropriate words said, that kind of stuff.
Would it surprise you to learn that Marxist Feminism (women are oppressed, men are oppressors) originated from Minnesota?
No. Nothing really surprises me about this state when it comes to shit like that.
Why are women in demand for this type of security?
Because women, once you start putting alcohol in their system, especially when a male security guard grabs a girl, to restrain them from hurting themselves or others because they’re getting physical and the girl’s boob gets touched or something like that.
IMMEDIATELY a girl will say that guy touched them inappropriately and then they become the victim, even though they are the INSTIGATOR and automatically want to blame the guy, rather than take responsibility or accountability.
Now, as a woman, I didn’t give a fuck where I grabbed them, in the bathroom or on the dance floor.
If they needed to go, they needed to go. I didn’t have to worry about the accusations.
I didn’t need to worry about the guys, because guys don’t want to admit that girl beat me up. I could handle both situations and not have to worry about it, where male security guards had to walk on eggshells when dealing with a female.
What are your experiences with women police officers and use of force?
(Pause) At both clubs, I worked for over 11 years, I only saw women cops working at 2 am once or twice. I never knew any women cops to work that late because of the time. You know, you start dealing with alcohol and people become completely different people.
What do you think of the arrest of Daunte’ Wright?
I feel that if you do the crime, you do the time. If you run on a warrant, and you’re getting arrested for it, you don’t argue out in the street. You go to jail and argue it in front of a judge. You deal with it at that time, you don’t do it out there.
I feel that the arrest was justified and what happened was a misfortune, but he brought it on himself.
With her yelling “taser, taser, taser,” do you think that was an accident?
I fully believe she meant to tase him and pulled out her gun instead.
Why do you think that might have happened?
When you’re in the heat of the moment, it doesn’t matter how much training you have, in all my years of experience I’ve had, and self-defense training on my own, you still have a tendency to get wrapped up at that moment. The adrenaline starts going and mistakes happen.
One time, I left the bar bleeding after being attacked by a woman patron. She tore my hair out and hit me with her high-heeled shoe. I lost it and apparently beat the shit out of this lady with her own shoe. I didn’t remember until my coworkers brought it up the next day. It happens.
Does it surprise you that Kim Potter worked on the Marxist Feminist Modeled Domestic Assault Response Team?
Cops are part of all sorts of different things while they’re in the community…
I mean, it, I mean, it, I, don’t know if any of that surprises me. I guess, like I said, nothing really surprises me.
Do you think that had anything to do with how she handled the situation?
I don’t think that had anything to do with that. He had a weapons charge – they didn’t know what that weapons charge was. He had an outstanding warrant, you start dealing with a misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor, felony – doesn’t matter, if they have a warrant out for him you’re supposed to take him in.
He was pulled over because he had expired tabs and something hanging from the rearview mirror. I live near a city that’s very strict and people get pulled over for that stuff all the time. I got pulled over for having beads hanging from my mirror.
Any closing thoughts?
The kid is dead. There should be some accountability for that, I just don’t know what that is. She resigned, and will never be allowed to work in policing again. Maybe she’d never even want to.
I don’t know that any police officer has a chance at an actual fair trial these days… the jury is operating out of fear. Eventually, everyone will know that they were on that jury, and they will be held accountable for the outcome. If they don’t do the thing that the community wants, no one on that jury will be safe. That’s a tough place to be.
