Posted on 04/21/2016 10:39:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Surveillance video shows more than a dozen people doing nothing to help a Chicago bartender as he is attacked, left unconscious on the street and accidentally run over by a taxi.
Marques Gaines later died at a hospital.
The family of 32-year-old Gaines has filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against several businesses and taxi companies in his Feb. 7 death. …
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No mention of the guy who punched him. Just looking for deep pockets
The money is more important than Justice.
Thank-you, lawyers.
Wonder if there is a law there that requires a duty to assist? It’s crappy that nobody helped him, but I can’t see that any people or entities could be legally bound to do so. Very sad.
Chicago Values.
Reminds me of the incident in China on video, where toddler girl gets hit by a car, then the car stops, goes forwards with the real wheels running over her and leaves. Then all kinds of bystanders walk by and do nothing and you can see the girl is crying with her arms and legs moving, and then a second vehicle runs over her legs.
After about 20 people did nothing, an old street cleaner lady or such stopped to help her, before the mother came running into frame (the toddler had gotten away from her)
Some years ago a small plane crashed in downtown Detroit. As the pilot lay dying, residents picked his pockets and stole his jewelry.
Any pictures?
Obama voter values, to be more precise.
Actually, any “duty to assist” would have to absolve the assister of liability for any mistakes made.
It’s the reason why one shouldn’t perform CPR if not CURRENTLY certified to perform it.
Chicago? He’s better off now.
This one?
http://www.cnn.com/US/9804/20/plane.crash/
They certainly relieved him of several bundles of marijuana.
-—Some years ago a small plane crashed in downtown Detroit. As the pilot lay dying, residents picked his pockets and stole his jewelry.
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When flight 191 went down from OHare, I had a good friend of mine who was on the Elk Grove Fire Department. Much debris had scattered over the crash site, which was adjacent to, and included a trailer park of poor reputation.
My friend said that residents were not only combing the trailer park for valuables (watches and rings) but the police had to physically force people away from the still smoldering actual impact site while the FD and EMT were going through the fresh wreckage.
My friend said folks were saying “that’s my dad over there” or “my kids were on the plane” which was all untrue, because the looters were on the scene within a minutes after the crash, even before all the fire departments had arrived.
I have wondered how much of his story was true, and how much of it was embellishment.
“Wonder if there is a law there that requires a duty to assist?”
That was the last episode of “Seinfeld”. The Good Samaritan Law.
“Some years ago a small plane crashed in downtown Detroit. As the pilot lay dying, residents picked his pockets and stole his jewelry.”
“It’s Whitey’s fault fo’ makin’ me wannit so bayd.”
The law back in old Judaea didn’t say that kohanim and Levites were obliged to help robbery victims on the Jerusalem-Jericho highway either.
Better off murdered?
“Ah dindo nuffin.”
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