On 6th November 2024, I was walking towards the JBR station and I witnessed something cruel. A man bullying another man. This happened between 7:14 am - 7:45 am morning time. There was security, he didn't do anything neither did he call the police. There were onlookers. I was passing them by.
I stood there so that the big East Asian (He looked Korean or han Chinese) would stop bullying the European/Arab looking young guy. But no. He proceeds to choke the young euro guy, the euro guy falls on ground. His eyes had lost hope. I knew that look more than anyone else. I have felt that look. He had given up on himself. The look of being lost all hopes. I stood there looked at the guy. The fat taller guy becomes more dramatic and more cruel in my presence. My every instinct asked me to push the Bully. I had my trauma my body didn't move to where my heart wanted to go. My Body froze. But I looked at the Bully and the young guy. I still remember the euro guy's look on his face. I wanted him to be safe. I didn't know the 911 number of Dubai. I went to the station and told the security there. She could see what's happening. I asked her to call Dubai 911. She said she cant report it unless they come inside the station. She said she saw the whole thing. When I was entering the station, the bully guy dragged the euro guy by his hand and was leading him somewhere.
They both were wearing white round tees and electric blue shorts. May be they were couples or boss n employee. I could have called Dubai 911 after taking the Dubai 911 number from security. I didn't. Big mistake. Remember the security outside didn't call police or or dint dial emergency so did the onlookers.
I get into tram from JBR2 and get down at DMCC. I tell the Ticket collector who was an Arabic lady what happened and told her I want to report it because i felt like the young euro guy might be in danger. I know the value of time and someone reporting this as I have seen such violence and cruelty happening to oneself. It was a time sensitive issue. Police comes and tells that it is under another station, so he cant do anything about it. I tell him I want to report it anonymously. He doesn't call the JBR Station. He is just inert. He asked me to go back to JBR and report it. I couldn't go back as I was going somewhere. Why the Railway Police Person at JBR I reported to, couldn't just call the Police at JBR and let them know? Nothing happened. I lost my hope. I was going somewhere, so I decided to post online on reddit r/Dubai so that anyone nearer to that location could help. But the reddit r/Dubai deleted my post saying it violated the rules and I should go to police or al ameen. May be I should have posted at al ameen. I tried but dint, my internet ran out at that point.
I am sure the admins of r/Dubai has never endured any forms of violence and if they ever do, they might remember this one day. Only people who has endured cruelty (or people who are a bit kind and empathetic) can understand the seriousness of the situation. I being a mere person in another country couldn't do much. I told my mother what happened. I asked for the help of the property manager where I stayed. He told not to get myself involved. But I had reported to people who weren't much enthusiastic about taking action. May be because of the ethnicities of the mentioned people and the Police themselves. UAE Police's average response time is 7.5 minutes according to 2023 data on Google.
This happened on 6th November 2024 between 7 to 8 am in the morning. Right now it is 16th November 2024 12:45 am. This is eating me alive at times. I just hope the young guy is safe. I wanted to tell him that the moment you give up is the moment you lose. It wasn't his fault. Because people who go through such cruelty on a daily basis requires tremendous inner strength to come out and ask for help or to understand you need help. Outsiders can blame the victims as much as they want. It is not their fault that they get bullied.
My dear young one, I understand your pain, your look of forsaken hope is stuck on my heart. I pray for your freedom everyday. May god or whatever force you believe in or not believe in help you come out of that situation and hope that bully gets what he truly deserves. I want you to be safe. Here people fail to understand it is a life at stake. I worry about what happened to you Boy. Domestic violence and bullying may be is not counted as cruel for the Police to come may be in this part of the world? Don't get me wrong. In my country it is worse.
Here at least the ticket collector called the Police and I reported it to the Railway Police. But in my country, I couldn't hope for much either. Because people are much more crueler in such situations. At least that was my experience in my country. No one will help you in such situations, you are on your own.
Problem is I feel I did not do enough. The security on road did not call the Police, the onlookers did not but that doesn't justify me not doing enough.
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