Heartless New Yorkers!

[Feuer Frei!]

Can't believe this, this is bad
Some Clown even had time and the nerve to take a cell phone picture!
Bystanders, you failed, big time.

HEARTLESS New Yorkers did not come to the aid of a gunshot victim who was bleeding to death on a Brooklyn street, disturbing surveillance footage released shows. The video opens with an unsuspecting Trevonne Winn, 24, chatting on his mobile phone outside a chicken shop on Saturday night - just moments before his killer casually steps out from the shadows and guns him down.
Sparks flash from the gun as two bullets hit Mr Winn in the chest. Mortally wounded, he drops to the ground, struggles to move, then collapses as the hit man flees.
A crowd gathers around the dying man, but no one kneels to help or comfort him. He later died at the Kings County Hospital.
"What kind of city is this? No one helped my child. Someone could have helped him and turned him over on his side to help him breathe," said Winn's outraged mum, Tracey, 40, a nurse from South Carolina.

"It's a nightmare I will never recover from. He wasn't in a gang. He didn't know anyone here. I saw that video. When I saw the video, I walked out of the room.

"That will be forever engraved in my memory. I saw my child fall on the floor, and nobody tried to help him."
A disgusted police source who saw the tape agreed.
"Between the time the shooting happened and the police arrived, people were just looking. Someone even took a cell phone picture," the source said.
Read more about passersby ignore dying gunshot victim at the New York Post.

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[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Some Clown even had time and the nerve to take a cell phone picture!

Of people like those, I hope someone shoots them as well and the bystanders just laugh at it

"Oh look, it's a dying man! Let's watch him and see what happens if he loses blood for 10 minutes!"

[HunterICX]

Makes you wonder if we are actually civilized

HunterICX

[Castout]

Quite simply immature or timid people. Many people don't mature as they grow older.

[August]

Nothing new for New Yorkers. Just ask Kitty Genovese.

[AVGWarhawk]

Because...in todays world people are desensitized to violence. Desensitized to helping others. People do not want to get involved. Some are afraid if they touch the guy a ambulance chasing lawyer will be after them if something goes wrong that could have possible been created by touching the victim. Things like this only provide a opportunity to video and put on Utube in most pepples eyes.

[Growler]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Because...in todays world people are desensitized to violence. Desensitized to helping others. People do not want to get involved. Some are afraid if they touch the guy a ambulance chasing lawyer will be after them if something goes wrong that could have possible been created by touching the victim. Things like this only provide a opportunity to video and put on Utube in most pepples eyes.

Add in fear of retribution, and you've got a paralyzed populace. Some of those people undoubtedly saw the killer pop two into the victim and feared the same if they tried to help.

We now live in a society of fear.

[Ducimus]

This is acutally what i expect out of people.

The world IS a cold and hard place. People DO NOT Care, and why should they? They don't know you, your just another ass on the street. They are only worried about themselves, and do not want to get involved.

If you do not, or cannot take care of yourself, NOBODY else will.


Yes, i have That much faith in people and humanity. Articles like this, only reinforce that train of thought.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Because...in todays world people are desensitized to violence. Desensitized to helping others. People do not want to get involved. Some are afraid if they touch the guy a ambulance chasing lawyer will be after them if something goes wrong that could have possible been created by touching the victim. Things like this only provide a opportunity to video and put on Utube in most pepples eyes.

Good Samaritan laws are there to prevent this. I think it's more because people are selfish and don't want to bother. They feel no duty to their fellow man. A common theme in the world today.

Originally Posted by Ducimus

This is acutally what i expect out of people.

The world IS a cold and hard place. People DO NOT Care, and why should they? They don't know you, your just another ass on the street. They are only worried about themselves, and do not want to get involved.

If you do not, or cannot take care of yourself, NOBODY else will.


Yes, i have That much faith in people and humanity. Articles like this, only reinforce that train of thought.

Sad but true. I am of the same mind on this.

[Schroeder]

I'm not sure whether it's true but I've heard that in some states you can get punished if the first aid you give actually kills the guy you tried to help. That would make me also very reluctant of helping someone. Here in Germany the law says that you've got to help and you won't be prosecuted if you screwed up your first aid. Our first aid instructor once said "There is nor wrong first aid, the only wrong thing is no aid at all.".

[the_tyrant]

i believe that i read somewhere that the more people there is, the lower the odds of someone trying to help

[gimpy117]

wow, just wow

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Good Samaritan laws are there to prevent this.

From your wiki article:

The details of good Samaritan laws/acts in various jurisdictions vary, including who is protected from liability and in what circumstances.[4] Not all jurisdictions provide protection to laypersons, in those cases only protecting trained personnel, such as doctors or nurses.[

Most people believe they will get in trouble or cause more harm than good. Some are just afraid of all the bloodborne diseases found in today's world.

[GoldenRivet]

nothing in the video surprised me.

no further comment

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

i believe that i read somewhere that the more people there is, the lower the odds of someone trying to help

This i believe is 100% true, for many reasons.