When I was in class for my security commission back in college (not at the college but a college job) the lesson they used was a (then) recent article of a security officer at a strip mall heard a woman scream and ran toward it. What he saw was a man straddling her, both covered in blood and the man was holding a large knife in both hands over her. He fired and killed the man who turned out to be LEO who was stabbed trying to arrest the woman. He had managed to get her down and had just extracted the knife when the security guy came around the corner. He was no-billed but I doubt he slept well.DONT TREAD ON ME wrote:We are taught to stop when the threat stops, right? So, who is to say that they guy doing the beating didn't try to stop but the original attacker just kept coming? Kind of like an attacker that gets shot multiple times but keeps on coming. You shouldn't stop until the threat is stopped.suthdj wrote:For me if a person is getting beat it means he is not defending himself, hence not a threat. So weather he started it or not the beater is still in the wrong. If he is defending himseflf then it is a fight, worthy of watching.
Also, I cannot for the life of me remember where I heard this but it is a good lesson. A guy was driving down the road and saw a car off to the side where a man was beating a woman. Most of us would want to stop and help as it is not right for a man to lay a hand on a woman much less beat a woman.<SNIP>
All that says this, let your conscience guide you. We rarely have the option of an algorithmic analysis. You may be wrong but if you did what is immediately "right" but the only option to avoid this is to commit to never intervening and deal with the possibility of watching someone die in front of your eyes. I cannot make that commitment.