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This is NPR's Life Kit. I'm Ruth Tam. A heads up, this episode contains descriptions of

assault. In 2019, Felicia Chow was in London for a work trip.

I was walking through Piccadilly Circus with a co-worker, and it's, you know, a tourist trap.

It's super packed.

There's thousands of people.

When things went from zero to a hundred.

And a man just walked up to me and punched me in the face.

It was a well-dressed, like, man in his 50s or so, quite tall.

And I actually kind of blacked out in those few seconds, so I don't remember exactly personally

anymore.

But my coworker said, I yelled, he punched me.

And he kind of just walked off. He didn't even run. Even though they were surrounded by thousands of people, no one seemed to notice what happened.

I remember seeing eyes turning to look, but kept moving.

No one even stopped to stare.

What Felicia's describing can happen anywhere. You notice

something in public that seems wrong, but instead of doing anything about it, something holds you

back. Maybe you don't want to be targeted yourself. Maybe you think someone else is going to step in.

Or maybe because you see everyone else moving on, you think you must be wrong about what you just saw.

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