Alabama is that “a person has no duty to protect another from criminal acts of a third person.” Moye v. A.G. Gaston Motels, Inc., 499 So.2d 1368, 1370 (Ala.1986). There are two exceptions to this rule: (1) the “special relationship” exception; and (2) the “special circumstances” exception. Saccuzzo v. Krystal Co., 646 So.2d 595, 596 (Ala.1994) (citing Restatement (Second) of Torts § 315 (1965)). 1. “Special Relationship” Exception The “spe tor”) and Finley (the “other”) was that of citizen and police officer. This relationship is insufficient to create a right in Finley, the police officer, to require Ms. Patterson, the citizen, to protect him. In Young v. Huntsville Hospital, 595 So.2d 1386, 1388-89 (Ala.1992), we held that the relationship between a hospital and a sedated patie 1923) (<HOLDING>); Cullivan v. Leston, 43 Or.App. 361, 602 P.2d
holding that a hotel security guard was not liable under  1983 merely because he called police and brought the police to the plaintiffs hotel room holding that a hotel occupant who was asked to leave by police officers acting on behalf of hotel management who complained of defendants disorderly behavior was justifiably ejected under state law and no longer had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the hotel room holding proprietor of a tavern was not liable to officer who sustained injuries caused by a patron while the officer was attempting to make an arrest holding officer who was shot by employee of a hotel while he was attempting to make an arrest was unable to recover for injuries from hotel owner holding police officer who was shot by occupier of premises could not recover from premises owner for injuries the officer should have reasonably expected to sustain while engaged in the line of duty