recent tragedies here in Nashville like the Riley Shin case in Austin Turner many people have safety concerns about the bars on Broadway our Nikki Hower talked to Bar owners and security guards downtown to see what's being done to keep tourist safe it all starts hello right here at the door Hey Brother the role of a security guard hey can I see your ID please to keep you and everyone else enjoying themselves okay who's next sa the Safety and Security is only as good as the people that you have w
orking with you but how they prepare for the job is being called into question after tragedies like Austin Turner a 26-year-old who died after a fight with the security guard at tin roof on deuman street and Riley strain the 22-year-old missou student whose body was found Friday two weeks after a night out on Broadway footage shows him wandering the streets at night alone appearing intoxicated if they are over served you safely make sure they have a way home it's not okay to kick someone to the
curb to the elements that should never happen now Dallas's law a relatively new piece of legislation put in place in 2023 requires that all of these bars have security guards take extra training when it comes to deescalation CPR and first aid the Dallas law has kind of set standards around what a security guard at a bar uh needs to go through this named for another young man who died after a fight with a bouncer in 2021 Dallas's Law requires armed and unarmed security guards to take deescalation
training making certain that our folks see that and understand that before it gets to the point where it's too late right some bars like Robert's Western World say they fund training for their dman perfect top of the hand and teach how to handle certain situation but if somebody looks like they've had too much we ask questions we ask if they have friends here we ask if they've got a safe ride home ad there has to be some level of personal responsibility too we can train we can prepare we can ha
ve a plan we can have a backup plan and after that there's got to be a level of accountability but others like this current security guard so my issue with state of Tennessee training is anyone can go online apply and get their guard card in a matter of 4 hours say not enough is being done that's what night Riley went missing I I worked that night if he if he would have in our bar that would not happen we have to have a lot more training a lot more Hands-On we need to do better background checks
on our guards everyone with the same goal to keep you safe from the minute you walk in the door hey my friend top of the hand have a great time Nikki Hower News Channel 5 now the Turner family says they would like to see lawmakers toughen Dallas's law by adding more surveillance cameras more training and have more collaboration with police now now we're told City officials are already discussing possible changes
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Bars and employees have a certain responsibility but so do customers!! One of the biggest problems of our society today is no one taking PERSONAL responsibility!!!
I’m sorry, but I would never let a friend that I went out with , leave by themselves.
If someone is too intoxicated to be in a bar, what makes you think he's OK to function outside the bar??? Call them a cab! Riley Strain would be alive today if someone had just called him a cab!
We should be talking about personal responsibility
There's ONLY one person most responsible for this death. Not bars, not passersby, not City, not cops. Personal responsibility.
In Phoenix , AZ. if they are really drunk the bar can call a taxi and the person is taken home for free.
What a tragic accident. 🥺 The quality of your friends should always outweigh the quantity of your friends. Poor Riley was too young to realize that. 💚
Riley was not escorted out the BACK DOOR , video from the bar shows he and one other frat boy went out the front door . Once outside the frat boy went back in leaving Riley alone . It took them 16 hours to report Riley missing .
I worked in a very busy downtown Seattle bar every weekend. Hard to babysit everyone but if we took your $$ then we also made sure if you got cut off or intoxicated, we got you a cab home. Yes to personal responsibility absolutely, but there’s common sense AND compassion that that person is in need of help to get home safely. Literally the Sound was in walking distance, no rails or fence and you never heard of “countless” bodies ending up there after a night out.
Nashville needs an entertainment security director. Bart Butler is the perfect person for the job.
How about, don't drink alchohol !! Riley lost his entire life, just for a drink of alcohol. It's NOT worth it !! Like a drunk living on the streets. He stumbled into the river and died. What did Riley and an alcoholic living on the streets have in common ? ALCOHOL !!! ALCOHOL KILLS !!! 😥
Maybe small towns are different but the bars in my town offer to call a cab if they are too intoxicated.
Crack down on public intoxication. Better off to be in jail than dead. Too bad the DA is a wimp. Moral of the story. Don' drink to excess. You can't blame the bars. Even if Riley went back to the hotel nothing to stop him from going back out. The bars are not adult daycare.
Amen. These friends,weren't friends 😢
Call a cab. Don't just cover the bars' legal responsibility.
Individuals have to TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY for themselves. That's the problem with modern young people, they expect the world to babysit them. It is first and foremost YOUR JOB to take care of you. It is YOUR JOB to take some responsibility.
They put you out because you're to intoxicated the people you went there with has to go too at least one person.
If Riley was served “one alcoholic beverage and two cups of water” at Luke’s bar how did he get so drunk? Over serving patrons alcohol should be illegal and bar owners should be liable for it. Yes, I know serving alcohol is how they make their money and how their staff gets paid, but it’s ridiculous to kick out a drunk person to fend for themselves. His frat “brothers” I think also played a part in Riley’s untimely accident. So sad and it could have been prevented.
What happened to Riley was totally avoidable. The bars need better training and people need to watch out after their friends - go as a group leave as a group. When they kicked Riley out - his friends should have left with him. So sorry for the family - they are suffering because of these stupid mistakes.
Security guards are sometimes the perpetrators