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While surveillance video showed multiple people watching Kari s attack and not intervening to help her, another person who was not seen in the footage successfully distracted the assailant by yelling, according to Kari s daughter. Also, in the Genovese case, a handful of people including a woman who held Genovese in her final moments called police or took other actions to try to stop that killing.
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When surveillance footage surfaced in late March 2021 showing a man attacking a 65-year-old Filipino woman on a busy Manhattan street in broad daylight, social media users likened the alleged hate crime to the notorious murder of 28-year-old Kitty Genovese more than a half-century earlier.
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Would you jump in to stop an assault?
By Andrew Jacobs New York Times,Updated April 3, 2021, 3:56 p.m.
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Imagine that youâre walking on the street and see a man viciously beating an older woman.
What would you, just a passerby, do?
That question â about the ethical responsibility to help a stranger in distress and the dynamics that prevent people from acting â has been the focus of research for decades and helps inform some of the debate this past week around two chilling incidents.
In one, a man pummels and chokes a subway passenger in New York into unconsciousness; in the other, an assailant on a busy Midtown street in Manhattan knocks a Filipino immigrant to the ground and then repeatedly kicks her head.
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