In my experience, the "get away" crowd mentality happens when the parties are mostly equally matched. Usually when one person is obviously beating the snot out of another (and I'll note that the victim's own report said it took 3 guys to get her off him), the crowd steps in.
The wallet thing really happened, and the point was to humiliate the person who was beating the snot out of someone else. I guess when someone is obviously outmatched it's hard for folks to consider who the first victim is.
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Date: 2008-05-07 04:56 pm (UTC)The wallet thing really happened, and the point was to humiliate the person who was beating the snot out of someone else. I guess when someone is obviously outmatched it's hard for folks to consider who the first victim is.