Man charged with assault following alleged attack against Muslim woman on SkyTrain. Transit police have arrested a 46-year-old man in connection with an alleged attack on an 18-year-old Muslim woman that, she says, was preceded by a racist rant.
Charged with one count of threatening to cause death or bodily harm and one count of assault is Pierre Belzan of no fixed address. Police say they have also recommended a charge of sexual assault. The arrest and charges follow a complaint made by Noor Fadel. Fadel was heading home to Richmond after work on Monday night and got on the SkyTrain at Waterfront station around 10 p.m. PT. 'He was yelling' Fadel, who was wearing a hijab, claims she was approached by a man who began yelling at her in a mix of Arabic and another language she says she did not recognize. "He had a very aggressive look on his face and he was yelling," Fadel said.
She estimated there were more than 25 other people on the train car. The man, Fadel said, told her to go back to her country and that he would kill her and all Muslims. Only 1 person intervened. 10 Notorious Cases of the Bystander Effect. The bystander effect is the somewhat controversial name given to a social psychological phenomenon in cases where individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when other people are present.
The probability of help has in the past been thought to be inversely proportional to the number of bystanders. In other words, the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help. This list describes the prototype of the effect and cites nine particularly heinous examples. The Parable of The Good Samaritan First, the prototype of the bystander effect. Jesus then explains, with the following parable, that everyone is everyone’s neighbor, and that help should be offered to anyone in need of it, regardless of who or what that person is.
A Jew is going along the road, and is beset by bandits, who beat him severely, strip his clothes, and rob him. An avoidable murder of a student caught on tape: the sickening power of the bystander effect. On Sept. 17, the life of a 16-year-old high schooler in Long Island ended tragically in a violent brawl outside a strip mall.
Khaseen Morris was told to show up outside the mall at a certain time by several others his age, after he was seen walking home the girlfriend of another boy. Morris showed up and was immediately attacked by a group of five teenagers. A senseless brawl erupted and Morris was stabbed repeatedly in the chest, dying later that night in the hospital. The tragedy of Morris’s murder extends beyond the senselessness of his violent death and the fact that an innocent young life ended so abruptly over a trivial adolescent dispute. The horrific nature of Morris’s murder is amplified by the fact that the brawl occurred in broad daylight and was filmed by a group of 50 teenagers, so that Morris’s stabbing was caught on dozens of phone cameras. It is deeply disturbing that the impulse to document Morris’s death far outweighed any instinct to help him. Bystander Effect - people watch girl being abducted.
How Kitty Genovese's Brutal Murder Created the "Bystander Effect" When 28-year-old Catherine Susan Genovese was killed outside her apartment in Kew Gardens, Queens, 38 people reportedly witnessed the attack but didn’t get involved.
Known to her friends as Kitty, she had only lived at 82-70 Austin Street for a year with her girlfriend, Mary Ann Zielonko, before returning on the night of March 13 from her job managing a bar. Two weeks later, the assault and murder of this charming and bright-eyed woman became headline news. In his book, Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America, journalist Kevin Cook reports that the 38 figure, which would later prove to be incredibly influential, is inaccurate. “Thirty-eight” was tossed out by New York City Police Commissioner Michael Murphy while at lunch with the city editor of the New York Times, A.M. Rosenthal. Genovese’s murder shaped the social dynamic of cities and how Americans are taught to perceive their place as one person within a multitude. Here’s what actually happened: