Woman Who Called 911, Stadium Security Guard Testify In Bryan Stow Civil Trial Against Dodgers
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Jurors at the Bryan Stow civil trial against Frank McCourt, former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, on Wednesday heard from a security guard who testified the team had inadequate security to handle a rowdy and drunken Opening Day crowd in 2011.
Jurors also were read dramatic excerpts from a eight-minute 911 call where a woman called for help for the San Francisco Giants fan after he was punched and kicked while on the ground in the parking lot.
WOMAN: Someone just got punched, knocked out.
911 DISPATCHER: Is he awake, is he breathing?
WOMAN: He's snoring right now and there's blood coming out of his ears
Then a second person calls. It's Stow's friend, an off-duty paramedic.
FRIEND: He's unconscious, he's got snoring respiration at the moment, bleeding out of his left ear, no response to stable stimuli. We need an ambulance right now.
Jurors were also shown a cell phone video taken by a fan of the fight that broke out in the stands showing there was no security in sight.
Attorneys for Bryan Stow said it proved, in their opinion, that security was extremely lax.
"They were supposed to have security people going up and down those aisles," said Tom Girardi, Stow's attorney.
The lawyer called Ken Delgado to the stand Wednesday. Delgado works for Dodgers security.
He was working security on opening day on 2011. Girardi got him to admit, "the Dodgers did not have enough security for security guards to go up and down the aisles in the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th innings," as required by their own policy.
The fight shown on the cell phone video occurred during the 6th inning. Delgado said security never knew about it.
Stow, who has permanent brain damage and no memory of the event of the night he was beaten, attended the first day of jury selections. His attorney said he wanted jurors to see what Stow looks like now.
Girardi plans on calling two more security people to the stand Thursday. Next Tuesday, he plans on calling Jamie McCourt, McCourt's ex-wife. And a week from Friday, Lopez reported, Girardi plans to call McCourt himself.