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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A surveillance video was released from inside the restaurant where the victim went after she was stabbed. She's blurred out but you can see people running away from her.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6189359/Police-arrest-suspect-fatal-stabbing-newly-engaged-DC-jogger.html[/quote]

that was posted above.  I know it's natural to want to get away but DAMN that one guy is a coward.  The store owner tried to help and others apparently ran in as well (not in video).[/quote]

I hope the man and woman seen scrambling away in the video have told everyone they know that they were there when she came into the restaurant, and that their friends, family and coworkers all see the video. Cowards. Not to mention stupid to run out into the street where the attack had just happened. [/quote]

Too bad you weren't there to be the hero.
Monday morning quarterbacking at its finest.[/quote]

It's hard to pass judgement on how the restaurant patrons reacted if you've never been in a similar situation. It must have been very scary for a bleeding woman to run in like that. [/quote]

Well, it’s a good thing that there are courageous people in the world to fill in for all the cowards then, isn’t it?[/quote]

In the unblurred video on the same page, they kept slowing it down & freeze framing each step she took into the restaurant & then rewinding it & showing it again, multiple times.  The man in the video not only runs out, but he actually PUSHES the girl he was with into Wendy as a means of putting space in between he & Wendy to get her away from him, then he turns tail & runs out.

Real brave guy... what a complete coward.

And yes, I understand what you’re saying about not knowing how we’d react in such a traumatic situation & I agree to a certain extent, but I do wholeheartedly believe that your true character plays heavily into this.
If you don’t have self confidence or

My husband was in a similar situation where he was down on a subway platform at 2am & saw a girl get mugged & also cut with a knife at the edge of the tracks.. 
She stumbled forward in my husbands direction & many other people coldly stepped back in disgust away from her as she was bleeding everywhere (they were disgusted even though they’d just witnessed this brutal crime on this innocent victim).
My husband ran forward to catch her as she fell, along with 2 other people (only 3 people out of 10 or 12 helped).

One of the women said she was a nurse & the man said he was a former lifeguard with first aid/CPR training, as soon as my husband heard that he helped lean the victim on the lifeguard & he sprang straight up the stairs in one leap chasing after the guy.  He knew that once he hit Times Square, the odds were slim to none that he’d ever be identified, caught & charged.
He actually ended up tackling him on the second staircase going up (the guy had NO stamina) & my husband basically just sat on him until the cops got there.
His said his adrenaline kicked in after witnessing something as brazen & brutal as this to occur in front of a platform full of people & he just leapt without thinking knowing full well that he was the only thing standing between this guy making a clean getaway & paying the price for what he’d just done. 
He told me that whenever he’s read one of these horrific stories in the past, that he'd always hoped if god-forbid myself or his mom or sisters were ever in this situation, that somebody... anybody.. would help us the same way.

The cops told him that these muggers depend on people being too shocked/scared to help the victim, let alone chase down a mugger.
It’s the fight, flight (or more often than not) freeze mechanism in our brains that muggers depend on to get away clean, as that also affects our recollection & details of the events.  He said that two people standing side by side who just witnessed a robbery can see the same thing happen & have two totally different versions of the events, as far as what he looked like, what he was wearing, etc.  He said it’s the brain’s way of managing the trauma you’ve just witnessed.

I’m very proud of my husband & how heroic he was, but I was also VERY freaked out as he went sprinting after a knife wielding madman, as he very well could have gotten himself killed going after the guy (although once I realized that the guy was only 5’6” probably 100 lbs & my husband is 6’5” 250lbs, I felt a tiny bit better).  
That being said, I know THAT is my husbands character & I’m afraid that he will never, ever be the guy in the video who pushed his girlfriend(?) into the victim & then ran away.  While their initial instinct was to run away, I know my husbands first instinct will ALWAYS be to run towards the danger to help.

Now, let me be clear... Im not saying it makes him f@cking genius when it comes to identifying danger, assessing risk & then running towards it anyway.
Not at all.
However, I know him, I know the person that he is... I know his character deep down inside.  
His first instinct will never, ever be to run from a victim, even if it put him in the line of danger.

I know that he could never live with himself & the regret of knowing that something like this occurred & not only did he do nothing, but he ran away from her as she was dying.

I pray that Wendy is resting in peace & that this lunatic will be locked away forever. [/quote]

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