Thank you for reading and for your beautiful comment. I agree with everything you said. Inaction from being frozen during the fact and vilifying the women afterwards and yelling from the top of your voice “you’re damn right we didn’t help and we wouldn’t if it happened again” don’t add up. The inaction wasn’t being frozen. The inaction is that Black women are not deemed worthy of protection. And the men justifying her treatment prove that. These men are not saying that someone should have helped her but they were stunned in the moment. And we all know people are not hesitant to attack Black women, and extremely hesitant to intervene when a Black woman is attacked. If it were a white woman, there wouldn’t be a conversation of how it’s no one’s business to intervene when she’s hit in the face with a brick. Even if no one did intervene.