A sad business. He got out of the car to help the little boy. It wasn’t his fault that the boy ran out in front of the car, but he didn’t want to just leave the kid lying there.
And he paid a heavy price for his decency and kindness.
I used to drive into Manhattan through a couple of questionable neighborhoods, and one of the things I never would do would be to stop the car, let alone get out of it, among a bunch of black youths.
I would be really conflicted if something like this happened, to just drive away and leave the kid there, even though there were plenty of people who saw it and could help him, and I could stop a few blocks away to borrow a store phone and call the police.
Things are certainly not getting better under Obama and Holder.
If this happened to me, I would be thinking of driving away and calling police from a safe place, not stick around in a mob and risk getting killed.