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Poll: Would you have intervened in Salem assault?
NJ.COM ^ | 06/28/2014 | Jessica Beym

Posted on 06/28/2014 1:55:53 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

A Salem City woman is being sought by police for her alleged role in a brutal attack on a 27-year-old woman Tuesday. Latia Harris, 25, is accused of assaulting Catherine Ferreira and threatening to kick the woman's 2-year-old son while a crowd of onlookers stood and watched, some of them recording the beating with their cell phones rather than intervening.

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1 posted on 06/28/2014 1:55:53 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

It’s a shame those heroic commenters weren’t around to save the day.


2 posted on 06/28/2014 2:05:43 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Kid Shelleen

I would have enjoyed getting in the middle of that one.


3 posted on 06/28/2014 2:06:09 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Likely any white person attempting to intervene would have been torn apart by the crowd of negros enjoying the spectacle.


4 posted on 06/28/2014 2:07:27 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Kid Shelleen

I certainly would have called the police and stayed on the phone with dispatch until they got there, but as a 69 year old female, I would not have thrown myself into the fight. Now, taken the child out of reach? Yes.


5 posted on 06/28/2014 2:10:09 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

I would have but only if I had a gun and she turned on me after I told her to stop. But then I’d probaly get whooped by the crowd for breaking up a free fight night.


6 posted on 06/28/2014 2:10:12 PM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Probably because all those heroic commenters work for a living.


7 posted on 06/28/2014 2:11:27 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Kid Shelleen

I like to think that I would have done something.

Truthfully though, I probably wouldn’t have. :(


8 posted on 06/28/2014 2:14:37 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Kid Shelleen

Only with a tranquilizer dart.


9 posted on 06/28/2014 2:15:45 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I would have...I’m a former correctional officer and intervened in many a fight...


10 posted on 06/28/2014 2:17:34 PM PDT by terycarl
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To: bjorn14
And you would have been arrested and made the next George Zimmerman.
That said I like to think I would have intervened to at least stop the beating. I certainly would have called 911.

Any Freepers carry mace when they don't carry firearms ?
11 posted on 06/28/2014 2:19:51 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: terycarl
@Terrycarl
What do you recommend for controlling hostile crowds?
12 posted on 06/28/2014 2:21:13 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Honestly? Me? NO!!! Hell no. What would be seen? A white man, attacking a black muslim woman. My life would have been destroyed and it is a very dangerous place for a what man to fight any black when a crowd of black people are around. If I even survived intervening think of how many manginas there are that would kill me just for daring to lay my hands on a woman.


13 posted on 06/28/2014 2:23:36 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Kid Shelleen

Nope. I also wouldn’t get involved in a fight between two feral pitbulls either ?

They could kill and eat each other for all I care.

This is not the America I once knew.... this is Obama’s and the democrats mess, it’s not mine anymore.

I would walk away, and call 911... on my way to buy an ice cream.


14 posted on 06/28/2014 2:25:03 PM PDT by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: doorgunner69; All
"Likely any white person attempting to intervene would have been torn apart by the crowd of negros enjoying the spectacle."

Such observations have to be taken into consideration before taking the risk of getting involved in a fight. In fact, the need for an iPhone app that shows 911 response times based on GPS coordinates comes to mind.

15 posted on 06/28/2014 2:27:37 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Kid Shelleen

Take up for a woman who was too naive to know she needed a weapon?
My daughter carries a knife for just this reason.
Those who will not prepare must suffer their fate as canaries in the coal mine.


16 posted on 06/28/2014 2:29:10 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Kid Shelleen
Yes because she had a child with her.

Years ago I was verbally bashed by a woman cursing at me and calling me whitey and cracker while I walked with my young son (who wasn't much older than that little one.)

Funny part is she was saying that I didn't belong in that neighborhood because I was white.
I grew up there.

Yep she was real brave she was...

The thing is I would also do it for a black woman who had her child with her.
17 posted on 06/28/2014 2:29:25 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: Kid Shelleen

From just about everything that I’ve read, 1 buck is hard to beat in those situations.


18 posted on 06/28/2014 2:31:31 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Kid Shelleen

If the pic of Latitia Harris on the right is correct, then this hijabi was just doing a little jihad on the infidel!
19 posted on 06/28/2014 2:33:43 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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And she has that Thousand Yard Stare Of Death that some many Muzzies have.


20 posted on 06/28/2014 2:35:01 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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