Who protects the Holocaust Museum?

Are the "guards" National Park Rangers or private security or something else? Who shot Von Brunn?

it is a private institution, therefore the guards are likely to be private security.

They said Park security - it is a public institution.

the Holocaust Museum is a private, non-profit entity. Yes, it is chartered by the US Government (but then so is Stanford) and built on land donated by the Government, but it was built by, and funded entirely by, private money.

It is a private non-profit, I think, so the guards would have likely been private security.

but you might be right.

No word yet as to what company employed them.

Some of our greatest landmarks are protected by non-government employees. I know this museum is semi-private, but it's a problem overall. The Liberty Bell is protected by mall cops, and I doubt they are all as brave as this guy.

specifically dedicated to them. There is even a firing range for the guards to practice on underneath the National Gallery of Art.

Now, other federal buildings, such as the Thurghood Marshall DoJ building, has had rent-a-cops protecting it.

They just said, it is NOT the Smithsonian.

Of course cheap-ass Wackenhut wouldn't provide them.

Wackenhut describes itself as the U.S. government's "largest contractor for professional security services." An official with the union that represents Wackenhut employees at the museum said Johns was paid about $20 an hour.

"It's a heavy loss," said Assane Faye, the Washington district director of the Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America.

Like other guards at the museum, on Raoul Wallenberg Place SW near the Mall, Johns underwent training for which he received the D.C. police designation of "special police officer," which permitted him to carry a revolver on duty.

Faye said that during contract negotiations with Wackenhut two years ago, the union pressed for company-issued protective vests. Although Wackenhut seemed open to the idea, vests have not been issued, Faye said.

"I hammered this in our negotiations two years ago because of how sensitive that museum is," he said. "Our guards needed more protection." He said that one of the guards at the museum was "verbally assaulted by one guy walking by, saying anti-Semitic remarks. For that reason, I made that the center of the negotiation."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/11/politics/washingtonpost/main5080901.shtml