A security guard looked up while patrolling, then quickly stepped forward and reached out to catch a falling baby... This incident caused a lot of spread on the Internet. On January 27, 2024, a Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned from the original poster of the video that the incident was re-interpreted based on an incident in March 2023. The local police had gone to investigate and asked the poster to write a letter of apology.
Starting from January 25, messages such as "Looking up to save a life, the mall security guard caught the baby who fell from the building with his bare hands", "The security guard found the baby falling from the building during patrol, and rushed forward to catch the baby the next second" in the form of videos. It was widely circulated on the Internet and paired with sensational music. Many netizens praised the security guard for daring to reach out to save people at critical moments and hoped to give him a heavy reward. Some netizens also asked whether the brave security guard was injured, and questioned why the parents failed to take good care of their children. Most of the videos circulated online by
have the time marked as "recently" and the location as Xi'an, Shaanxi or Henan, which is not specific. The reporter's search found that the original publisher of the video was a "security service" company in Jintai District, Baoji, Shaanxi.
"The video has been deleted by us. The video was remade by us based on previous events." Mr. Feng, the person in charge of the company, told the Beiqing Daily reporter that on January 25, after the video was released on the online platform, due to the child's parents and the security guard involved, Complaints and other reasons, "The impact is not good, we deleted it yesterday (26th)."
Mr. Feng said that there are often news about the negative image of grassroots security guards in the society, so their company decided to remove the negative image of the security guards during their daily work. All kinds of good deeds done by good people are reproduced in remakes or videos made after filming and spread on the platform.
Mr. Feng introduced that the prototype of the incident of "mall security catching a fallen baby with his bare hands" actually occurred in a science and technology museum in Baoji, Shaanxi Province. The incident occurred in March 2023. In a two-story underground garage, a four-year-old boy The year-old child was caught by patrolling security guards when he fell.
"Our company has only been established for about 6 months. We have a large backlog of manuscripts and the videos we shot are being released one after another." Mr. Feng said that after the incident of "a security guard catching a baby who fell from a building with his bare hands" was released, it was spread by some netizens as "mall security guards" Catching a baby who fell from a building with his bare hands", and the location of the incident was also misreported as somewhere in Xi'an or Henan.
Mr. Feng believes that the company’s original intention was to spread positive energy, but he did not expect that the impact would be bad. "We are deeply aware of our mistakes, and have also sent private messages to some forwarded media to explain that this matter is a plot interpretation and not a hot news." Mr. Feng said that the local police came to investigate the matter on January 26 and requested The person in charge of the company wrote a letter of apology.
html On January 27, a police officer involved in the investigation told a reporter from Beiqing Daily that after the police investigation, the security service company had been asked to issue a statement to the public to truthfully explain the matter.Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Dong Zhenjie
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