I wasn’t going to comment on the Taryn situation, but felt it necessary to as someone who’s experienced a few (actual physical/s**ual) assaults… when you’re in complete shock with extremely heightened senses and emotions, the way you react can be insanely unpredictable… looking back I can’t fathom how I reacted, including doing very risky things. My memory of fine details (particularly describing a persons appearance) is so poor on a normal day, let alone while in shock, so if I was to try and just describe a persons identifying features the police would have no idea why I even bothered
I recently witnessed a physical fight in public and couldn’t even tell the police officer what length the main guys hair was or clothing colour (which was ridiculous because their hair and clothing was very distinctive). I can actually see the logic (especially while in shock) of trying to covertly follow them to see if they got into a car (where you could then note the number plate) or business they went into (so you could refer to the CCTV footage) etc etc to try and have some solid information for a report. Totally agree some of the story doesn’t make a lot of sense, and I don’t think following him the second time was a great idea, but the response wasn’t completely unbelievable
It’s also common for victims to question if what they saw really happened, and not wanting to lie intentionally or unintentionally to police (Eg in her story she didn’t SEE him doing anything with his peen, so couldn’t actually say that he did in a statement, just that he had it out, so is probably questioning if that’s worth reporting). She really should be making a report regardless as a guy that brazen with it has probably done it A LOT and his offending will continue with escalation likely if he isn’t caught at all…
(edit to add: I really dislike her as an influencer, particularly for the pushing of unhealthy levels of excessive exercise/minimal eating/high sun exposure, so don’t think I’m defending the person, just explaining how trauma responses can work 🤍)