"New Yorkers were horrified last week when a man assaulted a 65-year-old Filipino woman outside a Hell’s Kitchen apartment building, kicking her repeatedly in the head as police say he shouted anti-Asian hate slurs. After outrage on social media, the door staff was suspended. In a news conference, Mayor Bill de Blasio called their lack of intervention for the woman, identified as Vilma Kai, “absolutely unacceptable.” He also addressed the latter with an increasingly familiar term: bystander intervention training, also sometimes called “upstander training.” “That type of training is crucial,” he said. “We do want to make sure as many people as possible get that.”
Bystander intervention is a strategy that teaches onlookers to insert themselves both indirectly and directly into harassment incidents, overriding the common instinct to feel frozen or unsure in such situations."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/can-bystander-intervention-training-stop-hate-crimes.html