When I was 16, my father gave me the advice: If you see someone beaten on the street and you can’t pass by, you have to whisper loudly and shout “POLICE STAND.” The hooligans usually run away from this without even seeing who is screaming there.
The next day I went to work, the first hour of the night. I passed by a supermarket where big bushes grow and few people walk, I watched a man 5 clutching two guys with their legs, remembering the advice whispered loudly, shouted "STAND POLICE". The effect was simply offgenic, all escaped... Even those whom they put on their feet.