Racism On The London Underground

[agchristie]

Having heard yesterday of the brave young lad who intervened to assist police officers, here we have the opposite. Despite a whole host of witnesses nobody acted to assist this racist attack on a young woman. Is it the 'bystander effect'? Why did nobody react when an injustice was played out before their very eyes?

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/model-shocked-and-angered-as-commuters-stood-and-watched-while-smartly-dressed-man-hurled-racist-abuse-at-her-on-the-tube-9739770.html

[agchristie]

Divebuddy, what purpose would fabrication serve? Reportedly scores of witnesses including staff...

Will be interesting to see how this pans out.

[agchristie]

Divebuddy, thank you. Your integrity is appreciated.

[Deskdiary]

In no way in giving an answer to the question (save for the fact I use the Tube every single day - and I have witnessed an awful lot worse) she is absolutely gorgeous......

I would like to think I'd have raised a voice, but The Tube is a curious environment, and I'm not entirely convinced I would.

People from the boondocks may say they'd've intervened, but those that do have probably been as close to trouble on The Tube as I have to being wet and sticky with (the utterly gorgeous) Emma Stone.

[tamborine]

Cctv will give recourse if she wants compo for being mistaken for Breakfast TV Nagar

[Booldawg]

The man was a top grade a-whole. This wasn't an attacked purely based on race rather an altercation (which she claims he started) over access to a lift at a tube station.

If she was white and overweight her size would've been the key factor in his abusive tirade. Would we be reading about a sizist attack? I think not.

[agchristie]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-hunt-man-after-model-racially-assaulted-at-busy-tube-station-9742380.html