Really, is this the best we can do?
What if the only video remaining was this video here you may watch.
As humans, we really aren't as evolved as we like to think we are.
Out there on the streets, are cold, hard reminders of the harsh realities we face everyday.
A heroic homeless man, stabbed after saving a Queens woman from a knife-wielding attacker, lay dying in a pool of blood for more than an hour as nearly 25 people indifferently strolled past him, a shocking surveillance video obtained by The Post reveals.
Some of the passers-by paused to stare at Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax last Sunday morning and others leaned down to look at his face.
He had jumped to the aid of a woman attacked on 144th Street at 88th Road in Jamaica at 5:40 a.m., was stabbed several times in the chest and collapsed as he chased his assailant.
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You can read Questions Surround a Delay in Help for a Dying Man at the NY Times.
"It’s bad," said Alexis Perez, 29, the superintendent of two buildings on the block where the stabbing occurred. "But I live here, so I know what it’s like. There are a lot of alcoholics who drink and then they fall down and they’re laying on the ground. People say to themselves, ‘I don’t know them so I won’t get involved.’ "
Juan Cortez, himself the victim of several assaults, offered another theory as he collected cans from the trash nearby. "People mind their own business," he said.
This is a cold reminder to the tragedy of Catherine Genovese, 40 years ago on March 13, 1964. Which in a way is worse, because it involved her literally screaming for help at the top her lungs. It hurts more to know that people are around to hear you, it's just that they don't want to.
38 witnesses did nothing to intervene, according to reports; nobody even bothered to call the police. One witness later explained himself with a phrase that has passed into infamy: ''I didn't want to get involved.''
Seldom has a crime in New York City galvanized public outrage so intensely.
The New York times also details what happened in the article linked above.
The episode began before 6 a.m. when Mr. Tale-Yax intervened in a noisy dispute on 144th Street between an unidentified man and an unidentified woman and was stabbed, said Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, chief spokesman for the New York Police Department.
The man fled in one direction, the woman fled in the other, and Mr. Tale-Yax ran a few steps before collapsing on the pavement.
A surveillance video from an adjacent building captured the reactions of those who passed by. The video was posted on The New York Post’s Web site.
During that time, the police responded to three 911 calls, said Mr. Browne. The first, shortly before 6 a.m., reported a woman screaming; the second, at 7:09, reported a man lying on the street. But both calls gave incorrect addresses.
The third, at 7:21, also reported a man lying in the street. It led to the discovery of the body.
It's time to move past the bullshit and take care of one another. What can you do when a whole mass of people couldn't give a shit if you died, in the street, even as they walked by you. You notice in the video, somebody pulls out their cellphone. Not to call the cops though, but to take a picture. Probably post on it Myspace or Facebook.
A whole hour passed by before any authorities managed to show up and discover the body.
Also, this man was a Guatemalan immigrant, I bet if he was some rich executive, that lady would have been robbed, and there wouldn't even be a story.