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The "bystander effect" and "mob mentality" may have played a role, but I think there's a much simpler explanation than that. I'd bet that some of the perpetrators were gang members, and witnesses feared that if they told, or even returned to the gym building where the authorities were, some "friends" would find them and give them the same treatment that they gave this poor girl.

Although I can't say with certainty, and evidence may very well come forward to prove me wrong, but I would even speculate that the witnesses who didn't take part stood silent in shock, while the individuals taking photos and cheering were in fact the perpetrators who were standing by waiting their "turn".

October 29, 2009 - 7:28am

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