DO YOU STAND UP OR IGNORE?

This past weekend I went to Seattle with my mom and sister. The weekend was great until I witnessed something that shocked and stunned me. In the middle of the food court, right in front of me, a woman PUNCHED her son. Yes, punched. Closed fist...right in the face. Her son was not more than 6-7 years old.
NOT COOL.
The upsetting this was that NO ONE did anything. There must have been 10 people standing around and no one said or did anything.
That is not acceptable.
We live in a society where child abuse is rampid and people seem to turn a blind eye to it. Who stands up for the child?


So....I moved right up beside her. My thought was that if she was going to punch her son again, I was going to stop it.
She obviously noticed that I was right next to her and she stared at me...which I returned.

Then she said, "I can see you hovering next to me, you got a problem with me?"
I said, "Nope, just looking at the sushi."
She said, "It seems like you have a problem with me...do we need to figure that out or what?"

By this time she is IN my face.

I had two options:
1. get into a fight in the food court (which it was escalating to)
2. walk away

I walked.

I said to her, "If you have to ask me if I have a problem makes me think you know what my problem is...you can figure it out."
And I walked away.

She then yelled, "BITCH"
I kept walking.

I was so angry that out of 10 people NO ONE stood up for that little boy. Do you ignore a problem or say something? On one hand, she has every right to hit her child. Her family, her choices...not mine.....On the other hand, she hit him in a public place, therefore, I am involved.
I made a choice not to be someone who "looks away". To me, that is not acceptable. Luckily, the fight ended there. But for that poor little boy, the fight will continue.
No one deserves that.