It’s a real reversal of roles. Generally, you would think that prison guards are there to keep order amongst the prisoners and prevent violent attacks. However, it would surprise you to know that at the Orient Road Jail in Tampa, Florida, the inmates turned the tables and protected the guard from a violent attack.
When inmate Douglas Burden snapped and randomly attacked 64-year-old guard Kenneth Moon, Moon was in serious trouble. After all, he was the only guard working in his pod and since he was being strangled, he couldn’t very well call for help. Then, miracle of miracles, the prisoners in the pod came to his rescue. Four of them, in fact, swept in and pulled Burden off Moon, and the whole thing was caught on video.
These weren’t minor criminals, either. These were robbers, attempted murderers, drug traffickers, and generally bad people. The fact that they came to this guard’s rescue says good things, both about the men themselves and their capacity for mercy, and for the guard, who must’ve treated them pretty fairly for them to not turn the other cheek during this abuse.
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