Susan Park / brookline@wickedlocal.com
A few years ago, Brookline parent Soyoung L. Kim was on a trip to Castle Island with her kids when a stranger began yelling at her over a parking issue.
The man didn t say anything racist, but what I knew in my gut in that moment was that he wouldn’t be yelling at me if I wasn’t Asian, Kim recalled.
Suddenly, a bystander intervened, stepping between the stranger and Kim and telling her, “I am going to stand here and protect you because I am uncomfortable with what I am seeing.”
Reflecting on the moment, Kim said the bystander s actions made her feel safer and comforted her during an upsetting moment.