The picture says it all. With nothing but her courage to work with, this woman and two others placed themselves between a hatchet-wielding attacker and his victim. Her comment' "Better me than a child," speaks volumes about how she knew this might end, but she did it anyway. See her hands? They are in her pockets! What a lady!
(Photo Credit: Twitter via London Evening Standard)
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