If you see in the street a man who beat his woman you will take attitude or go?

If I saw a man beating a woman in the street I would definitely call the police. I would feel that it was my moral and civil duty to report it. Many women do not report domestic abuse. Some feel in some strange way that they deserve it, or that they somehow prompted the attack, others feel too afraid to press charges. In many cases, the women who suffer from these attacks are blinded by love, and fail report these incidences because they do not want to lose the affections of their attackers. It's very sad, but very common. I personally am discusted by it, as I'm sure are many. In my life I have been in one relationship that was abusive. But my abuser never abused me in public. His actions were always in private, and he always excused himself by saying, "You made me mad". I left him as soon as I could. Anyone can become a victim. And abusers can be very manipulative.

Pretending that you didn't see anything is the worst thing that you can do. I'm a woman and I have stood up to a man who was roughing up his girlfriend in the middle of the street. Mind you, I'm not tall or big - just 154 cm and Asian to boot. There were at least another 20 over people standing a few feet away from where the fight was going on and no one did a thing, just stare. Me? I walked up to them and confronted them...even threatened to call the police and such on them. People have asked me if I was afraid that the guy would beat me up instead. Of course I was afraid but I didn't just walk in blind - I assessed the situation first, determined if it was dangerous for me to step in, and then, I did my best. At the end of the situation, he apologized to his girlfriend and me, some people even approached us as if to protect me from him and I walked away feeling good - I did something right. I tried pretending before - at a shopping mall, I saw a man slapped his wife across the face in front of their two children. I was young (in my teens) and I regretted not standing up to him. The police don't need blind people, they need proactive and SMART individuals. :)

I would do the same thing by calling the police. It is so low for a man beating up a woman and I cannot stand seeing these things. If I am big enough or feel that I am capable to interfere, I would. However, if I am smaller than the guy, I would immediately look around for anyone who might be able to interfere then I would ask the person to do so, then calling the police is still a priority but finding someone to interfere at the scene would help breaking up the beating while waiting for the police to arrive. Cheers, Cest_moi

I believe you did the right thing I would have done it. even tho the woman was afried to say any thing Maybe she will soon.I call the cops on this man they had stoped in the street in front of my house and he got out of the car and was beating this woman. I called the cops.I don't know how it turned out but he was stopped for a while.God bless you