My first thought was why wait for the police to show up? Why didn’t the men in that crowd, being attacked, stand up against them? We’re so conditioned to wait for the government to show up and save us. These mobs are going to keep showing up over and over.
Sounds like it is happening so fast and just mass confusion people are stunned. Notice how they mention the fights last 1 or 2 min.
Because they've been conditioned to be disconnected from one another. They've been conditioned to stand down, when they should stand up. There's no common bond of moral certitude or binding chain of honor amongst them anymore, and so they sit mute.
Long ago, a rabid gang of heathens running amok like that, would have been rounded up, and strung up in the town square by the local men. And no one would have had to tell them to act, either. It's just what was done.
A sense of common decency, and the courage to stand up and protect ones community, is just one more thing that we in the Tea Party wish to restore in America.
And, sad to say, any white person who would touch a black person in this type of mob situtation could find himself in trouble with the law. I think people are afraid to try to get involved.
Considering political correctness, hate crime laws, fear of the feral gangs turning on you if you intervene, fear of being considered guilty until proven innocent if you harm a member of a protected class such as a racial minority — all of it is a recipe for people being afraid to do anything.
“Why didn’t the men in that crowd, being attacked, stand up against them? “
They acted as individuals would, faced with a superior force. If 40 men felt they were pert of a team they’d yell Let’s Roll and move in.
Remember this took only a few minutes- the yute were organized. 120 seconds is not a lot of time to recruit a defensive team.
Also, the men were on defense- probably most had kids and wives to look after, and not go charging alone into a mob of hundreds of hostiles.
The people who organized this probably had the crowd dynamics worked out. They wanted their troops to have a quick and easy success, so that next time, they could be pushed a little further.