This incident took place in downtown Chicago about a block west of Trump Tower. This is an entertainment area of River North frequently visited by tourists and locals alike. The video is shocking.
The video is shocking. They need to find the person who punched him. However I do not see how 7-11 is responsible for this. Maybe if it had started in the store but the whole thing happened outside of the store.
It didn’t say was the cab driver charged with anything?
I don’t see what point you’re trying to make, zinhead.
I saw this on the news last night. I think that they have an issue with the 711 Security guard being so close and not doing anything to stop the attack .
I don’t understand the nature of people that don’t do anything to help at all when something like this happens. I am not talking about not getting involved out of fear for your own safety , but that not one person did a thing to move him out of the street . The disregard for human life is
For all we know, the security guard could have lost his job for getting involved. I have no idea what 7-Eleven’s rules are but many stores, fast food restaurants, and the like preclude it.
I wouldn’t buy into that excuse. At the very least , he could have moved him off the street until help arrived. Some things trump ( no pun ) following the rules set forth by an employer. It’s just basic human decency.
There is no point to be made. I have walked by this corner hundreds of times and find the whole episode very sad, and unfortunately emblematic of the senseless violence in the city I call home.
There is a moral duty and a legal duty to act, and they are not the same. Remember the horrible case when a young man did nothing to stop his friend from brutally raping and murdering a young girl in a casino bathroom? He had no legal duty, and he walked away without losing sleep over “somebody else’s problem.”
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,139892,00.html
Moving someone who has been beaten up or otherwise injured can be fraught with peril. You might find yourself sued for exacerbating or allegedly causing injury. So-called Good Samaritan laws vary from state to state. I guess I’m more sympathetic to the possible position of the security guard than some of you. If you had what was most likely a minimum wage job on which your family depended, what choice would you make? Obviously, someone should have done something – if only to stand in the middle of the street and wave away traffic. But I’m not prepared to condemn those who did not.
There is actually research that shows that the more people who are around during an incident, the less likely anyone is to help. Why? Because they don’t want to get involved, and they believe that someone else will. Nothing new (happened to Kitty Genovese back in 1964), and not unusual.
Actually, the Kitty Genovese thing has largely been debunked, has it not?
surely some of them called 9-1-1?
Even if I didn’t want to touch or move someone, I would have tried to rally people to stop traffic. OMG, who lets someone lie right in a busy street like that? Sickening.
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Yes, it was basically made up. There’s a new documentary about it. But the long and short of it, is that there were witnesses who called the police and she did not die alone. http://www.thewitness-film.com/
@zinhead The NYT had an interesting article yesterday about the reasons Chicago has such a high homicide rate compared to NYC and LA (they used to be similar): http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/18/us/chicago-murder-problem.html?_r=0
@ohmomof3 - Most national publications blame the problem on easy access to guns. One thing that most national publications will not touch is the connection between the gangs and city alderman.
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2012/Gangs-and-Politicians-An-Unholy-Alliance/
NYT mentions guns early in the article but goes on to mention several other factors.
The Baskin quote above is interesting but how does it affect homicides in Chicago?
The local aldermen rely on gangs to re-elected. The gangs then lean on the aldermen to pressure the police not to interrupt their activities, including the gang turf wars that cause most of the gun violence. The Tribune maintains a map of gun related violence which can be found here:
http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings/
The vast majority of shootings occur in the same wards. These are the wards where the aldermen are connected to the gangs, and protect the gangs from police intervention.
According to the NYT those same wards are the also the poorest and least policed (and I’m not sure most residents wouldn’t prefer some more policing, at least of a certain kind) .
I’m not seeing how some aldermen being connected to gangs is a CAUSE as much as a correlation.