What you’re talking about has nothing to do with what I said and is an extremely important distinction. Serious allegations should not be made casually with artistic license to bend the truth. If you witness a beating and do not intervene, then no, you did not commit an act of violence.
You could debate what the morally correct thing is or isn’t if you want, but you can’t debate that you committed an act of violence.
This seems like a debate over semantics to me. Silence doesn't mean violence, but silence can enable violence or be worse than violence if the consequence of staying silent are worse than those of violence:
http://www.openculture.com/2016/03/edmund-burkeon-in-action....
You could debate what the morally correct thing is or isn’t if you want, but you can’t debate that you committed an act of violence.