PhantomPod

I don't think it's funny how you brought up the ethnicities. I see why you did.

I saw on Good Morning America the beginning of this month a story about a boy who got jumped by a group of kids (black kids. They were part of a gang. Could white kids be the bullies and be part of a gang? Yes, but I still see fit to say that these gang members were black). The boy who got jumped died. He was only 14 years old. This only just happened in Maryland. It's really sad.

It's tough to say how exactly such a situation should be handled, but I truly think I would jump in and try to break it up and scare the bullies away. Especially since I'd be much older than them.

market.garden

I don't think enough people step in these days. The police will never come quick enough, and so it is up to decent people to look out for each other.

Sadly in the UK people often get stabbed for trying to intervene. One of those things you have to judge as and when.

Kinetik

It's never really a good idea to intervene unless it's a situation you're sure you'll be okay in. Breaking up a gang of teenage runts is not something to be taken lightly. Kids these days are pretty effing nuts - they're quite capable of acquiring and using all kinds of weapons. So really, all you can do is report it. No shame in not getting involved if your own life is on the line.

WastedPotential

i'd take on anyone if it got to that point, it doesn't matter to me.
strength has no ethnic limits.

mndigi

Some people get a boost to their ego or they get thrilled by bullying or torturing others. It's an overblown version of a 9 year old kid drowning an insect in water I suppose. Psychopaths/serial killers are an even bigger version of bullies.

But we are cultured and evolved humans now. So we have the police and other authorities to whom we have given responsibilities and weaponry to prevent and stop all this. So unless you yourself are similarly armed and trained, it's risky to get involved. But you should remember that such bullies probably suffer to their ends one day. That's because they indulge in very risky behaviour.

All of this is of very less consolation to someone like that Asian kid who was scared and calling his mother. But what to do. Every bit helps in making the society a better place I suppose.

I myself have a deep, deep hatred for bullies because they are the cause of my SA. They should be reformed/confined/eliminated. It goes for criminals too, and pretty much any one who tramples on others (the law enforcement works like this itself I think)

Noca

Id pull out my knife and ward off the bullies.

WastedPotential

this is dumb; you can't rely on someone else to save you all the time. Stand up for yourself, even if it'll give you a black eye, at least there's some kind of self-honor to get out of it.


i wish more people had a stronger sense of justice and would help others

kevinvincent86

If it was at or near a mall, there was probably plenty of people around.

Like some of you said, in that situation it's a numbers game, and it really should have been up to everyone--not just 2 tall guys--to distract them until security arrives. Experiments have shown that a hundred soccer moms swinging their purses and jabbing their car keys can turn a small group of teen punks into a quivering pile of hamburger.

recluse

I don't think he was being prejudice by mentioning that they were black, it was just a way of describing the situation. It was most likely a racially motivated attack anyway, the kid they were picking on being Asian.

I remember a few years ago i went along with some workmates for a quick drink after work, it was only 7pm and being winter it was dark. We were all sitting by the window of the pub when all of the sudden a gang of white kids came in and they were kicked out for being too young i think, there was a black guy standing by the bar and they must have said something racist to him because he ran out after them. Next thing he got knocked to the ground and was getting beaten up in full view of people who were doing Christmas shopping with their kids. All we did was sit there and watch frozen to the spot. The barmaid ran out to interevene and she got hit in the face. I felt ashamed as the others probably did for not interevening.

There's nothing worse than witnessing someone being beaten up by a gang, you feel helpless, but what can you do when there's a gang like a pack of wolves?

Jannah

He was just describing them, he wasn't trying to be prejudice by mentioning there ethnicity.

People who gang up on a single person are cowards.