Saw the edited video of this on CNN. An elderly man is hit by a car who leaves the scene. For a full minute and a half, cars pass him by, spectators look at him, and no one calls the police. The police car that finally does arrive was on their way to another call. In the CNN news story, people who didn’t call seemed to feel no issue with their inaction.

Update: Now the police say they did actually receive 911 calls. So now only the driver disgusts me. And I’m perturbed by the police commissioner who initially started the fury against the people who didn’t act.

Note: The video below is graphic. It shows the impact as well as the inaction.

These people disgust me. It would have taken a quick call, in this cell phone society. They can talk on their phone to discuss the game last night or the shoes they just bought, but an elderly man lying in the street, they drive around like he’s a trash can blown out into the street.

This is what we’ve become.