Man beaten up on metro
A video taken by a witness shows a man being badly beaten in the metro, although the video doesn’t show what was said before the attack started. No indication here whether the attacker was identified or arrested.
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shawn 10:20 on 2023-03-21 Permalink
Yesterday there was a phalanx of about a dozen big burly STM officers in Cremazie metro… stopping people from exiting the northbound platform unless they could show proof of purchase. Yes, one thing has nothing to do with the other and we can’t and shouldn’t have cops on every car but it’s just interesting timing, at least for me.
FWIW, someone who shared the video on twitter thought a possible motive could have been a gang initiation.
steph 12:02 on 2023-03-21 Permalink
The gang initiation angle explains why no one is jumping in to help; assuming the gang was standing by.
I can’t help but wonder, if an initiation goes bad and the crowd turns and dogpiled the wannabe gangster, does he still get into the gang?
JP 13:08 on 2023-03-21 Permalink
I think people generally don’t jump in. I don’t think anyone consciously thinks “it might be a gang initiation I won’t intervene”. It’s probably bystander effect at play more than anything else.
As for whether he’d get in if this was a gang initiation, he’s proven he would take orders from them….even if others jumped in I don’t see how that would change anything…..in any case, what a loser.
Hope the man is alright.
Kate 13:39 on 2023-03-21 Permalink
I think it’s even more basic. If there’s a violent guy that seems out of control, most people will naturally keep away out of a sense of self-preservation. We don’t see this guy using a weapon but there’s no knowing if he has one.
I have a feeling strangers might have been quicker to intervene had the victim been a woman. But it’s not certain.
Bert 15:58 on 2023-03-21 Permalink
It is even simpler than that. It is a classic case of the “bystander effect”… Someone else will do something… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
Kate 19:18 on 2023-03-21 Permalink
Bert: I see you tried 3 times to post this comment. It was held up automatically because of the link. Sorry about that!