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Dont click this if you cant handle some severe rage.
This video of a big Chicago area cop beating up a small woman bartender is sickening.
Before you get down on the bystanders, I believe the guy was armed.
Ok, besides possible armament there's 2 processes at work in these situation:
bystander effect: lots of people watching, no one does something, because there's so many people the responsibility is 'shared' or spread out, with only a few people around there's more sense of responsibility to act.
lack of example: People in such cases are not sure what to do, and tend to do what other people are doing, usually nothing in such.
best thing to do as victim is to make eye contact with a bystander and shout for help, but be specific; help, he's assaulting me, get him of me.
Although you think that's stating the obvious, it works, the situation isn't ambiguous anymore, and the yecontact helps to make a bystander feel he has a responsibility. As bystander, try to get some people to help you and get at it.
back on topic, I've fortunately never experienced such a thing, only heard of it.
it's like teenagers sometimes, you wonder why in god's earth they do such stupid and dangerous things. The only thing you can do is hope that they will see the light and grow out of it. You can tell someone how you feel about it but be careful, they tend to have a strong bond with their abusive spouse so it might backfire.
(good song about this is Antony and the Johnsons 'Fistfull of love' :
I was lying in my bed last night staring
At a ceiling full of stars
When it suddenly hit me
I just have to let you know how I feel
We live together in a photograph of time
I look into your eyes
And the seas open up to me
I tell you I love you
And I always will
And I know you can't tell me
I know you can't tell me
So I'm left to pick up
The hints, the little symbols of your devotion
So I'm left to pick up
The hints, the little symbols of your devotion
And I feel your fists
And I know it's out of love
And I feel the whip
And I know it's out of love
And I feel your burning eyes burning holes
Straight through my heart
It's out of love
It's out of love
I accept and I collect upon my body
The memories of your devotion
I accept and I collect upon by body
The memories of your devotion
And I feel your fists
And I know it's out of love
And I feel the whip
And I know it's out of love
And I feel your burning eyes burning holes
Straight through my heart
It's out of love, ooh hoo
It's out of love
Give me a little bit serious love
Give me a little full love
Be full of love
Fists, fists, fists full of love...