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I'm simply curious. To all those on here who are angry and willing to beat up this woman for what she did: If you saw this happening in front of you, in a store, or wherever, and not on tape, what would you do?

I'm just curious to know what the typical person would do if confronted with this for real, instead of having the security and relative anonymity of the Internet to shield you from the reprocussions of, say, suggesting this woman be beaten up herself. In other words, would anyone here really beat up on the woman, if confronted with this situation in real life?

In other words, would anyone here really beat up on the woman, if confronted with this situation in real life?

I wouldn't beat on her, but I would stop her and threaten to call the cops if the child didn't look bad.

If the kid's bleeding or obviously hurt, I would physically hold the woman and get somebody to call store security or the local cops.

If these neanderthals are going to beat their children, they could at least do it in their own homes.

I'm just curious to know what the typical person would do if confronted with this for real, instead of having the security and relative anonymity of the Internet to shield you from the reprocussions of, say, suggesting this woman be beaten up herself. In other words, would anyone here really beat up on the woman, if confronted with this situation in real life?

First I'd call the police. Then I'd walk up to tell her the cops are on the way and check on the child. Finally, I'd let her know that she can calmly sit and wait for the police to arrive, or I can restrain her. Her choice.

I certainly wouldn't beat her. That would be hypocrisy at its finest.

If I were there I would walk up to her and I would say "Hey! What are you doing!" hoping that my intrusion into the situation would help to divert her attention away from the child.

Hopefully that would, by itself, be enough to de-fuse the situation. If she decided to attack me I would allow her to land one or two blows (I'm a big guy) and then I would cold-cock her. One hard shot to the jaw would drop her like a ton of bricks.

Of course, at that point I'd probably be the bad guy and would end up getting arrested. The good news is that I can afford to hire the best attornies and so I'd be out on bail within hours and I'd have the very best defense in court. Once the local DA saw that I was ready to scrap for my rights I imagine they would back off from any charges. It would still cost a lot of money for me, but it would be worth it to spare a kid some of what I got to go through when I was a small child.

I truly despise violent single mothers who take their frustrations out on their children. I hope this b!tch ends up behind bars, and gets a special welcoming from the cell block.

I would not beat her, but I would restrain her. I have 4 boys of my own, 2 right around the age of the little girl. I am not squeamish about spanking them when necessary. Punching a child, however, is a completely different story- it is not discipline, it is torture. The point of a spanking is discipline, not release of the adult's tension.

As I have stated before, I cannot even bring myself to watch the video.

Okay, I'll bite. First I'd yell at her to stop it. If anyone else is around, I'll shout for help. If she didn't stop beating the child, and she were really beating the child and not merely spanking, I would pull her off of the child. I would hope that it wouldn't cause her to start swinging at me because I'm not a fighter, but I'm not about to ignore a defenseless child being beaten to a pulp. If someone has to be punched by an adult, and it's between me (an adult woman) and a small child, then it should be me.

Hopefully, she'd back off as soon as she was confronted by my trusty personal protection device. If not, I'd start shooting out the tires while screaming for assistance. As a last resort, I'd fire on her, since as a 110 pound female, I'm not big enough to safely take her on, and saving the child's life is suffucienct justification for firing. I'd probably end up needing a lawyer, and spending huge amounts of time defending myself in court, and my trusty PPD would live in police custody for a long time, but that would be a lot easier than trying to sleep at night knowing I'd stood by and let this monster kill or brain damage her helpless toddler.

i am very assertive with regard to this or any type of blatant abuse, i would have been shaking like hell, and maybe even puked, but i would have hauled ass over (securing my own kids) and done what i had to, even risking getting hit myself. i believe that this is violent abuse, not discipline, not corporal punishment.

i saw a man in lubbock (fresco exhibit) who seemed to be a hell of an uptight father, impatient, and possibly verbally abusive - but could not hear well enough, and if i had seen him lay a finger, abusively, on one of his four children - i would have thrown all my weight on him.
He seemed to be a mr. andrea yates type - scary, and i pray for his temper/enlightenment toward becoming a Godly man and father - not a tyrant-which he seemed to be.

I'm simply curious. To all those on here who are angry and willing to beat up this woman for what she did: If you saw this happening in front of you, in a store, or wherever, and not on tape, what would you do? I'm just curious to know what the typical person would do if confronted with this for real, instead of having the security and relative anonymity of the Internet to shield you from the reprocussions of, say, suggesting this woman be beaten up herself. In other words, would anyone here really beat up on the woman, if confronted with this situation in real life?

I would constrain her until the authorities arrived. I would not beat her up. I wouldn't mind beating up her attorney, though.