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.