Originally Posted by cattle
I have no reason to believe this is not true but if it is then it's very disturbing that they can just take someone's phone even if they told him to get off it. Would that not constitute theft as they are just security guards and he was using it in a public place?
Regardless of that, there are banks of payphones everywhere to make calls from but I guess they saved the world that night taking his phone

Perhaps they had some reason to believe that a threatening call originated from that phone....????