I've seen two videos recently that I have found very disturbing.
In one, an older woman is pushing a cart of something down a street, when a young man walks up to her and punches her in the head, then just keeps on walking as if nothing happened. Update, the woman was 92 and the assailant has been arrested. Update 2. The assailant had been arrested around 100 times, is a sex offender, and was apparently out thanks a DiBlasio program.
In the other a large , muscular, man (20's ish) chases down a young woman, who falls to the ground. While she's on the ground that man strikes her repeatedly in the head. The first, as she's trying to sit up which knocks her back to the ground, then twice more as she lays there defenseless. Update, the assailant did get the crap knocked out of him.
Clearly the acts themselves are, or should be disturbing, as should the ethnic makeup of the people. Yet what I find most disturbing of all is the fact that people stood by and captured these acts on video without getting involved. We live in a society where it's more important to capture an assault to post on social media, than to actually get involved and help.
The only possible way to take anything positive from this is that the video might help convict the assailants should they go to court.
3 comments:
I've always had the same thoughts with regard to those who capture these incidents on camera. There is a case to be made that video evidence can help to convict the scum who perpetrate these attacks, but the choice to film or fight seems to lead too much toward the film side while someone is under attack. What riles me most are those who film it and are heard laughing about the brutality they're filming.
I agree that there might be some value in the video for evidence, but to stand by and watch while a woman is brutally beaten just seems wrong. Hell, I'm old, slow, and out of shape, and I'd like to think that I would have done something.
Maybe they could have reasoned with him and shown him the error of his ways.
I agree, and feel the same about actual journalist cameramen.
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