Well it's very easy to say that now, AFTER THE FACT, you would act differently, because now you know what's going on. This is called a hindsight bias, meaning you know what you could have done.
Realistically, if most people walked by that robbery (before they started shooting, of course), they would think something like "That's weird. Something must be going on. I don't wanna look silly by alerting anyone, though. Besides, everyone else seem perfectly normal. Probably a drill or a movie shoot or something"
If you don't believe me, check out Latine's research. When an emergency happens, the first thing people do is looking around to see what everyone else is doing. If no one is panicking or giving aid, you assume everything is fine, and you keep walking. It's easy to sit here and say "No I wouldn't do that", but chances are you would. Something like 90% of the population would just walk through this robbery. They might notice, they might think it's weird, but they wouldn't do anything about it.
This is before the shooting starts, of course. While shooting people would be more likely to run away or alert authorities because the danger is more obvious.
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