LogicaL Chaos said:

If the punishment for physical abuse is physical abuse, would less people commit it? What can stop someone from being violent in a given moment?

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LogicaL Chaos said:

If the punishment for physical abuse is physical abuse, would less people commit it? What can stop someone from being violent in a given moment?

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LogicaL Chaos said:

What can stop someone from being violent in a given moment?

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SARAtonin said:

https://bbc.in/2I2ewoc

Here’s to us never making it off this rock.

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Tulipslave said:

SARAtonin said:

https://bbc.in/2I2ewoc

Here’s to us never making it off this rock.

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and yet....YOU chose to have a child.

where's the logic between that and the statement in your subject line?

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tomnl said:

You want open borders, you have to accept the fact that such basic liberties as gay rights get thrown right back into the middle ages. Make up your mind, lefties

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Konyap said:

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If they showed a video it would ease all qualms about who's right and wrong
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Police have charged a 13-year-old girl after two assaults, including one that was recorded by a bystander at Pleasant Hill Park in Saskatoon.

The teen appeared in Saskatoon provincial court on Friday. She cannot be named because of her age.

The slim, short-haired girl wore a purple T-shirt and had a heavily-bandaged right hand. She indicated to Judge Doug Agnew that she understood her release conditions that include having no contact with 12 youth identified as either persons of interest or suspects in the alleged assaults.

Agnew rejected a Crown request to impose a 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew. The assaults were both alleged to have happened early evening or during school hours.

The 13-year-old was released into the custody of her parents, who were in court. She is scheduled to return June 6.

The May 20, 2019 incident was recorded by a bystander. A 33-year-old woman said she was set upon by several youth at about 7 p.m. CST.

Bonnie Halcrow, who lives in Flin Flon, Man., but was visiting Saskatoon, told CBC News she had bruises to her back, arms and legs after she was assaulted.

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A man who filmed children attacking a woman in Saskatoon says he made the hard decision not to intervene because he was concerned about potential implications on his permanent residency application.

The graphic video of the assault went viral. Viewers expressed shock and dismay at the violence, but also raised questions about why the man who filmed it did not step in to help the victim.

The 29-year-old from Africa contacted CBC to explain what happened. CBC agreed not to name him because he fears for his safety.

On Friday, Saskatoon police charged a 13-year-old girl with two counts of assault. One relates to an alleged attack May 13 at Pleasant Hill Park, and the second to the assault captured on video. In a news release, police said there were number of other youths identified as being involved in the assaults but, because they are under the age of 12, no charges will be laid.

The 13-year-old appeared in youth court and was released into her parents' custody and will return to court in June.

The girl indicated in court that she understood her release conditions that include having no contact with 12 children identified as either persons of interest or suspects in the alleged assaults.

The witness said he'd gone to the inner-city park to meditate and read. He came to Canada in 2010 and was two days away from getting his permanent residency, the culmination of a nine-year journey .

He had a lot on his mind, he'd had a rough day and just wanted to gather his thoughts before heading to work.

Then he said he saw "kids throwing stones at a guy that was going by. I was like, 'Stop that. That's not right. That's not a very nice thing to do.'

"And the kid was like, 'You're not my dad.'"

Then, Bonnie Halcrow and her 10-year-old daughter arrived. The 33-year-old from Flin Flon, Man., was in town visiting and came to Pleasant Hill Park so that her daughter could meet a friend.

Halcrow witnessed the stone throwing and began recording the boys with her phone.

The 29-year-old man said he was also hit by a stone and the children shouted racial slurs at him.

The man said he made some fast and hard choices. He weighed the desire to lash out physically against possible legal implications of touching a child, and whether it could affect his residency.

"It took everything in me not to react," he said.
Children swarm woman

The man ignored the stone throwing.

At one point, he says one of the children came over and began filming him.

"Right in front of my face, he was taking a Snapchat video and calling me a pedophile. Again, it took everything in me not to react."

And then he said the group turned their attention to Halcrow.

"I think it was just one kid that started it — tried to throw a punch. I'm not really sure what happened. The lady was trying to defend and before you knew it, she was on the floor," he said.

"She was on the floor and that was it. She lost her glasses; she couldn't see."

Again, a hard choice.

"I'm thinking in my head, should I go there? Because I know, if I hit one of those children … I'm thinking about my status here in Canada," the man said.

"It took everything in me not to react when that lady was being beaten. I was so angry, I was at the point I was going to do something."

The man decided that the best thing he could do was to record the assault.

The attack was over in less than a minute. The man recalls Halcrow's daughter crying, and the woman trying to find her glasses.

After she left, he said the group of kids again approached him and accused him of calling 911, demanding to see his phone and its call log.

"I showed them my call log," he said. "That's how I got out of there."
Going public

The man went to work and, the next morning, instead of going to bed he decided to go public with the video of the attack.

"I wanted the public to know about it," he said.

"I've seen this firsthand. These kids harassed me. If I didn't do this, no one would have known about it."

Halcrow came out of the assault with bruises to her arms, legs and back. She reported the assault to police, and they say they're investigating.

Police confirm that they are also looking into reports of similar assaults in Pleasant Hill Park.

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