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Gentlespirit — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:22:57 GMT

I hope and pray they catch the person that ran over him. Even though he was jay walking, it still was a hit & run. The person that hit him and kept going was dead wrong. And to make it even worse, the public just kept going like he was garbage in the street. A wounded dog would have gotten more attention. So sad.

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pacattack05 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:01:50 GMT

<br />I meant "as I possibly can"...lol

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pacattack05 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:00:20 GMT

<br />I would atleast make a call to 911 as fast as I could possibly can, and make sure the traffic coming his way was halted, or cleared to make way for the ambulance.<br /><br />This reminds me when I was living in LOs Angeles, back in 1991. I was coming home on I-10, heading east when the traffic came to a halt. Eventually we came to the scene where there was a pick-up truck upside down and still facing forward east in it's lane...just upside down. All this time that it took us to get to the... [ More ]

Original Blog Entry: Video shows bystanders ignoring hit-and-run victim

ThatScaryChick — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:57:32 GMT

The Associated Press

THE VIDEO (Not for the weak of heart. It's very sad. )

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Police released chilling surveillance video of a hit-and-run accident in hopes of catching the unidentified driver who ran down a 78-year-old pedestrian, paralyzing him, and to show the callousness of bystanders who did nothing to help.

The gripping one-minute video shows the violent May 30 accident and bystanders' apparent lack of sympathy. No one rushes to Angel Arce Torres' aid, and no one bothers to stop traffic as Torres lays motionless in the street.

In the video, released by police Wednesday, Torres walks in the two-way street at 5:45 p.m. after buying milk at a local grocery. He is struck by a dark Honda that was chasing a tan Toyota. Both cars dart down a side street as Torres crumples to the pavement.

Several cars pass Torres as a few people stare from the sidewalk. Some approach Torres, but most stay put until a police cruiser responding to an unrelated call arrives on the scene.

Police suggested the video shows a city that has lost its moral compass.

At the end of the day we've got to look at ourselves and understand that our moral values have now changed. Police Chief Daryl Roberts said. We have no regard for each other.

Torres is paralyzed and remains in critical condition in Hartford Hospital.

His son, Angel Arce, begged the public for help.

My father is fighting for his life, Arce said. I would like the public right now to help us in identifying the car and the person that did this.

Robert Luna, who works at a nearby store, blamed witnesses for failing to help Torres. It took too long to call police, he said Thursday. Nobody did nothing.

Witness Bryant Hayre said he didn't feel comfortable helping Torres, who he said was bleeding and conscious.

Whoever did this should be sent away for a long time, Hayre told The Hartford Courant. It was as if he was a dog left in the street to die.

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How can people just walk and drive by and not help this person laying in the street like that. People make me sick and angry sometimes.

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