TD Garden cuts ties with firm accused of beatings
By the time Jake Meehan quit his job as an Allied private security guard at TD Garden, he said he had complained to his supervisors at least three times about the abuse of the homeless inside North Station.
Other guards routinely shoved, kicked, and dragged the people who took shelter there, following supervisors’ directive to remove them from the building, he said. Sometimes, guards would ask that surveillance cameras be moved so their actions would not be recorded.
The prevailing attitude was, “If you witnessed it, you don’t report it, you don’t talk about it, it never happened,” said Meehan, 24, who now works in private security. “If you did bring it up, it was, ‘Don’t worry about it. You weren’t involved.’ ”
On Wednesday night, after the Globe presented a host of accusations from Meehan and seven other former Allied security guards, TD Garden president Amy Latimer announced that the Garden will cut ties with the security outfit.
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