Let me catch someone doing this

@AngelUnforgiven it pisses me off bad

@AngelUnforgiven The only thing is, that might’ve been all she could do. Someone did go over there to stop him. And if the offender tries to claim he wasn’t doing anything wrong, her video supports whatever that guy had to do to stop him.

@bijouxbroussard it's just not in me to sit back and watch a child get harmed. I'm not going to twiddle my thumbs and just wait for someone else to come, because precious time is waisted .

@AngelUnforgiven

With respect, how does getting killed or beaten up yourself help anyone else ? Sounding the alarm isn’t just twiddling one’s thumbs.

There was a similar incident that I dealt with recently. The man wasn’t putting hands on the child but I called the police, and just like the good guy here, a neighbor went down to confront him.

For my own reasons I don’t carry a gun, but I can understand women who do.

@bijouxbroussard everyone has that mentality that someone else will do something and that's dangerous. I would risk getting hurt to save someones child any day

@Nebula When I was in my 40s I might’ve, too. I will always do what I can to help, I won’t turn away, but I’m not a superhero, and I’m honest about that.

@bijouxbroussard oh I understand, I have a superpower called crazy adrenaline and years of suppressed anger hahaha

@bijouxbroussard I would do the same for a woman being attacked

@Nebula The last time I was getting blood work done this year I went out on the hospital’s patio and below saw a couple arguing. He grabbed her and said, "Do you want me to beat your ‘a’ right here and now ?" I held up my phone and shouted, "I’m calling the police !"

The woman told me "mind your own business !"
I replied, "fair enough," but when I went back inside I told the security guards and they sent someone out.

After volunteering at a battered women’s shelter, I will only get so involved when it’s a grown woman, rather than a child, because that’s much more dangerous—and complicated.

My brother’s a retired cop and he’s always said they hated domestic calls more than anything because it wasn’t unusual to be taking an abusive husband away, only to have the wife jump on them, trying to protect him. 😓

@bijouxbroussard well my ex was shoving me around outside one time and I was screaming "help" and a group of guys that we're doing lawn work looked and then just looked away

@bijouxbroussard I feel like anymore if there isn't an older man around you're screwed, the younger men will probably just record with their phone. I used to help the older ladies lift heavy stuff at one of my warehouse jobs while the 20 something year old guys would just walk right past them struggling 🙄

@Nebula You may be right about that. Occasionally I get lucky; on the streetcar recently a young man gave me his seat and insisted I take it. When I thanked him, he made a point of saying he was "from the South" and that was how his mother had raised him. 🙂

@bijouxbroussard yes! I noticed that when I moved to Florida

@bijouxbroussard not all of them though down here that's for sure

@Nebula same here! There is no way in i would just sit back and allow a child to be hurt. I dont care if i was 75. He would have have had a cane or the closest thing that i could find across his head. And i agree with you 100% its dangerous to wait and hope that someone else will step in. A lot of people have this mentality i'm not one of them.

@bijouxbroussard it would be worth it to save a child, i wouldn't worry about my own safety in that moment. I can handle myself. My 1st priority would be to help this child. Because if i'm standing there and physically doing nothing other than using a phone and she would have gotten killed how could i live with myself? Its just not in me to be a coward i dont care if i was 80 years old, im not that selfish. And thank God that others aren't either because if we are all cowards everyone would be screwed. I just looked at a video like 5 minutes ago where a child was stabbed and a teacher walked away and did nothing. Would you want this coward at a school shooting with your child? And its okay to be that person who stands back and watches, its just not in me to be that person.

@AngelUnforgiven Like I said, I would not turn away, and I would do what I could to get the person help. And that I have done in the past, successfully.

Charging in like Batman and getting killed would simply mean not only not helping that person, but never being able to help anyone else ever again. If that makes me a coward, I literally can live with that, because what I’m not is a fool.

But to me a coward closes the curtains and pretends nothing’s happening. And that is not me.

@Nebula
Problem is, when we get involved in someone else's drama, it just makes things worse for everyone.

If things get physical and the cops show up, everyone goes to jail.

For this particular video, people probably didn't know if that man and the girl were related or what the rest of the story is. I do not condone what he did, but yeah unfortunately when we involve ourselves in others' problems, it never ends well.