Bystander effect

[ogopogo3]

edit: A general thread for Bystander effect or Bystander apathy
-Quixote

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http://www.clickondetroit.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-aptv-149056520020531-150505.html

People Ignore Dying Man, Continue Shopping

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Customers continued their business at a convenience store, stepping over a man dying on the floor with a gunshot wound to the head.

Pablo Lopez Jarquin, 23, was shot in the back of the head Tuesday at Rosy's Market & Taqueria, in what police believe was a gang-related slaying. He died later that night at a hospital.

Surveillance tape shows two men cornering Jarquin and a third shooting him with a handgun.

The tape also shows people stepping over Jarquin to get to the counter.

Santa Cruz Police Sgt. Steve Clark called it "pretty callous."

 

[JamesWhitehead]

Yes it seems callous. But I know someone of stupidly sympathetic
nature who agreed to accompany someone home who was nervous
of muggers. He got mugged by the worried party.

 

[Anonymous]

Reminds me of the Kitty Genovese case. Urban living gets evermore dangerous.

 

[Anonymous]

People with gunshot wound to the head make me sick. Why doesn't the govenment get them off the streets?