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A group of adults and kids were playing Go in the park. Late at night, one of the kids (maybe nine?) must have dropped and cracked her phone, because a man starts shouting that he's going to to "fucking beat" her when they get home. It continues at high volume and with liberal use of "fuck" for several minutes, which at least gives me the time to work up my nerves to go over and tell him to stop (I'm a 5'3 grill), and he was screaming about how he was allowed to raise his kids however he wanted because he'd just won full custody from their mom. Other people started chiming in against him, too, which was gratifying, and I let them take over the talking because they spoke from experience as parents or as abused children. But the little girl started crying and we awkwardly broke into two groups until that party of adults and kids left.
I wish I could have done more. I'm a lawyer, even though I've never specialized in child welfare stuff -- I /should/ have been able to do more.
