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    Short G4S stock! Orlando shooter unleashed by same people who set dogs loose at Standing Rock

    By jollyroger on Mon, 09/12/2016 - 2:34pm |

    Call it a bad week for G4S.

     

    G4S is one of those companies generally called "contractors" when private security behemoths are referenced.

     

    In a really, really bad, terrible no-good week for their Vice President for Public Relations, G4S employees made the news for two reasons.

     

    In South Dakota it was G4S employees who set pitbulls loose on protesting (United) Native Americans (yeah, all of them...).  (btw, one of the handlers got bitten by her own dog..."we hire the best people..."

     

    And just then it turns out that the reason Omar Mateen, the Orlando Shooter, had  been able to arm his crazy ass despite his florid indicia of disqualifying characteristics is that folks in the HR dept. of the local G4S office faked his psych tests results which would otherwise have flagged him as :

     

    WARNING:DO NOT ARM.

     

    G4S is paying $150,000 fine.

     

    That's just the beginning.

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    Not just ANY security behemoth, it is THE security behemoth...

     

    It is the world's largest security company measured by revenues and has operations in around 125 countries.[2][4] With 618,000 employees, it is world's third-largest private employer, the largest European and African private employer, and among the largest on the London Stock Exchange.[2][5][6] G4S was founded in 2004 by the merger of the UK-based Securicor plc with the Denmark-based Group 4 Falck.


    by jollyroger on Mon, 09/12/2016 - 3:09pm