{"id":349856,"date":"2025-11-02T07:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349856\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T07:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:39:19","slug":"caught-on-cam-security-guard-allegedly-beat-concert-goer-in-downtown-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349856\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught on cam: Security guard allegedly beat concert-goer in Downtown Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/81E54A857384825C5869D7DF923740C2.jpg\" alt=\"Phoenix concert beatdown involving security guards caught on camera\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; A disturbing video is circulating on social media that appears to show a concert-goer being beaten by several security guards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The incident happened last weekend at the &#8220;One Big Party Fest&#8221; near downtown Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Witness Perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Cross Kristoff was working on stage, helping some of the bands at the music festival that night, when he noticed a fight break out in the crowd and security step in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He said security staff seemed to be beating one man brutally, to the point he looked unconscious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The video shows a moment at the &#8220;One Big Party Fest&#8221; in Phoenix on Oct. 25 that Kristoff said seemed to get out of control.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What He&#8217;s Saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;There was a fight happening in the, in the audience,&#8221; Kristoff said. &#8220;You can see that the security is basically just repeatedly punching this guy, and I feel like a security, no matter what&#8217;s happening, like that kind of excessive force is not very necessary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Like several others whose videos are circulating, Kristoff picked up his camera and recorded it.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;As you can see, like, in the video, the guy is pretty much, like, unconscious at a certain point, and the security guard comes back and hits him again,&#8221; Kristoff said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s necessary in any kind of context.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He posted the video to social media in an attempt to get the word out about what happened.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a firm believer in, like, kind of making everyone aware of the truth,&#8221; Kristoff said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">He\u2019s hoping it will prevent something like this from happening again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;I understand, like, what happened is, like, a very emotional thing for a lot of people, but I think that helps change things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The event venue has been reached for comment. Phoenix police said they don&#8217;t have any incident reports from that night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> This information was gathered by FOX 10&#8217;s Taylor Wirtz who spoke to witnesses of the alleged assault.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/maricopa-county\/phoenix\/downtown-phx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown Phoenix<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; A disturbing video is circulating on social media that appears to show a concert-goer being beaten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,48588,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-349856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-downtown-phx","13":"tag-maricopa-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-phoenix","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115478971599486782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}