“We No Longer Have A Moral Compass” Hit & Run Victim Paralyzed

People walked by, car went along their marry way, while a 78-year-old man, hit by a car, lay motionless on a busy street.

AP summed it up this way:

The chilling scene - captured on video by a streetlight surveillance camera - has touched off a round of soul-searching in Hartford, with the capital city's biggest newspaper blaring "SO INHUMANE" on the front page and the police chief lamenting: "We no longer have a moral compass."

The accident left Angel Arce Torres in critical condition, paralyzed from the neck down. A tan Toyota and a dark Honda that is apparently chasing it cross the center line, and Torres is struck by the Honda. Both cars then dart down a side street.

"Like a dog they left him there," said a disgusted Jose Cordero, 37, who was with friends not far from where Torres was struck. Robert Luna, who works at a store nearby, said: "Nobody did nothing."

One witness, Bryant Hayre, told the Courant he didn't feel comfortable helping Torres, who he said was bleeding and conscious.

"It was one of the most despicable things I've seen by one human being to another," the Rev. Henry Brown, a community activist, said in an
interview. "I don't understand the mind-set anymore. It's kind of mind-boggling. We're supposed to help each other. You see somebody fall, you want to offer a helping hand."

We've been conditioned. We've been told we shouldn't depend on others for help. We have lost our moral compass. Welcome to the ownership society.