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In Reply to: what would you have done? posted by a citizen on March 25, 2006 at 14:16:04:
Last night I was taking the dog for a walk and there was this body crumpled on the ground next to a car, I started to approach when someone got out of the driver's side of an SUV parked beside her and went over to the woman and picked her up trying to throw her into the car. She slid back out and onto the ground and i passed by and then I looked back and the woman who had gotten out of the car, a butch domestic partner, went to the much younger woman on the ground and began to beat her and I did a u-turn with my dog and walked up to them and said "Hey, don't hit her! You need to stop hitting her" I might not have approached had I not had my dog but then again I might have because something just snaps in me when I see this sort of thing. I don't think it was the wisest thing for me to do though!
What really got me is the woman drove away about a half a block. Paramedics came and she groaned that she was "intoxicated" and that the woman was her "partner". Despite others who came out after I stopped there and when the beater went away,and those witnesses and us telling police that the woman was hitting her against the car, beating her in the stomach, head and chest area and kicking her before I even came on the scene, the beater came back to the scene and the police helped the victim into her SUV! The beater even slapped her in front of the cops but because the victim said "She's my partner" and the victim was drunk and sticking up for the beater nothing at all was done.
I think the best thing to do is call 911 because you never know when someone might have a weapon and could shoot you and the person being beaten will often stick up for their abusive partner or husband.
It is not uncommon. Sadly.
