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Isn't it disgusting how the first thing people do when a crime is in progress is grab their phones to record it


In the early hours of March 13, 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was stabbed outside the apartment building across the street from where she lived, in an apartment above a row of shops on Austin Street, in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens in New York City.[2][3][4] Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article claiming that 38 witnesses saw or heard the attack, and that none of them called the police or came to her aid.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese

In the modern age, 38 people would all be recording the crime so they could go viral and get likes on social media and not one would care enough to actually stop the crime in progress. How can someone stand by and watch a car jacking in progress, to be so calm about it that he actually explains to people on the street how it's just entertainment and they can keep watching in safety cause he already called the police. We have a big van pass by which could have been used to block the vehicle and stop the assault in progress... but no one really cares.

We see the videographer's true stripes after he runs after the crashed vehicle and ignores the dying man laying face down on the street so he could harass the guards and say how important he is since he has a video. Give me attention, I'm needy, I recorded the incident and did nothing to stop it he says.

38 eye witnesses watched from their own apartments as Kitty Genovese was murdered and did nothing. Now we have 38 people just walking on by and ignoring a dying man laying face down on the sidewalk and 38 people just walking on by and ignoring a car jacking.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1375909226439118855

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I remember those two sheriffs officers in California who were gunned down in their patrol car last summer. Not only were people celebrating it there was plenty of graphic video on the internet of the cops stumbling out of their car. The world we live in right now is fucking sick.

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We've always had the issue that we like to see who we think are the bad guys get hurt. I don't agree with the anti-police sentiment but I understand why they feel that way.

But this world is sick, ISIS posts a video of someone chopping a head off and ordinary citizens actually WATCH that crap! It's disgusting, these are real people and they are real dead why the heck would something like that go Viral. We're making the bad guys into youtube stars... it's sick! Some where along the line, we've seemed to forget about what makes us human, our compassion for others, our willingness to go out of our way to support people we don't even know.

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I think if I were in a crime situation myself I too would pull out my phone and record but not talk like an idiot while recording. Just film and post online for documentation. I'm no hero nor do I know CPR so one shouldn't count on me to save them :o. Not everyone is a hero you know. I know others will call 9-1-1 as well so that has the other parts covered.

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