Context
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.
Origin
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.