Police Called

Last evening, shortly after the preservation committee left my house(about 9:30pm) we heard some screaming outside our house. Just outside, in the street a white car had pulled over and a couple of doors were open. There was obviously a struggle going on inside; there were at least 3 or 4 people in the car. From time to time we saw someone get out and get back in; a couple of times we saw legs coming out of the passenger side door, kicking; it was obvious someone was holding this person inside (by the neck?).....one person got out and ran south on Branch.....the two people fighting in the front seat got out(it was a young man and a young woman) and were fighting in the street, him throwing her around (yes, we had called the police by now) and stuffing her back in the car, blocking her exit. He kept trying the close the door and she kept trying to get out. We felt pretty helpless-we made out presence known by standing directly in view in front of the window (lights on)....we were afraid to go out as we did not know if this person had any weapons. We called the police 2X, telling them it looked like one was beating the other pretty bad......their response time was a little slow; I have called them once before on something much less urgent and they had been here in a few minutes-they took closer to 10 or fifteen minutes this time,and after finally getting the girl in the car, the guy drove off, south on Branch. We gave the police a description of the car (we couldn't see the license plate) and the people, although it was dark. Up in Maine, there would be no hesitation to go out there and try to help.....here, it is a little more scary. We really haven't had much along the lines of this happen here.....it's fairly visible to a main street, and what we see mostly are the people who run the light at Florida and Hillsborough and get pulled over...our street is a natural for the police and drivers to pull onto. We have had a skateboard stolen from our front yard....a couple of suspicious people, but really nothing like this. I saw the police car several minutes after he left us turn back onto Branch from Hillsborough and drive down pretty fast, so maybe someone else saw something. I hope the young lady was ok......we try not to speculate what other people's business is, but it looked like something a bit beyond a boyfriend and girlfriend arguing. Please let me know if you live around here and saw anything....