{"id":349978,"date":"2025-11-02T08:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349978\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T08:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:56:21","slug":"security-guard-allegedly-beat-concert-goer-in-downtown-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349978\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard allegedly beat concert-goer in Downtown Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A disturbing video is circulating on social media showing security guards apparently beating a concert-goer at the &#8220;One Big Party Fest&#8221; in Phoenix last weekend.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A witness who filmed the incident claims the force was excessive, noting the man appeared to be unconscious while guards continued to strike him.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Phoenix Police currently have no incident reports for the event, and the venue has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident happened last weekend at the &#8220;One Big Party Fest&#8221; near downtown Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Witness Perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said security staff seemed to be beating one man brutally, to the point he looked unconscious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What He&#8217;s Saying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Like several others whose videos are circulating, Kristoff picked up his camera and recorded it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Dig deeper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He posted the video to social media in an attempt to get the word out about what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a firm believer in, like, kind of making everyone aware of the truth,&#8221; Kristoff said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He\u2019s hoping it will prevent something like this from happening again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What&#8217;s next<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This information was gathered by FOX 10&#8217;s Taylor Wirtz who spoke to witnesses of the alleged assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A disturbing video is circulating on social media showing security guards apparently beating a concert-goer at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,171428,171429,1589,17042,66932,171430,345,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-349978","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-concert-goer","12":"tag-kristoff","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-police","15":"tag-security-guards","16":"tag-security-step","17":"tag-social-media","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349978","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=349978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}