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Well thank god he was white. Doesn't happen often but at least you won't have to hide his name and skin shade so we just have to wonder. Whiteness is a serious problem. Gotta remove it from our skin asap.
And if I did this 40 years ago, my dad would have beat me. I would have wrote that down in my brain as something to not ever do again.
He’s not a teen, he’s 18 adult!!!
So sad for family I guess being the first to post something so tragic is the world we live in.
So many aspects of this are horrific. Terrible for the young man who died with no one helping him. Ruining for the bystanders. School superintendent who says being woken up with this news is the last thing she wants? Wow, she’s clearly concerned with the wrong things here...
Jail for all.
This is why ccw cannot be infringed upon.
Kitty Genovese. Look it up. Nothing new, just different technology available.
What a heartless generation!! They all should be indicted for not doing anything to help! They are co-murderers.
Hope he survives and they all still learn something. p.s. - Lay was the wrong word to use there.
We need to teach cpr/fa in schools
I don’t recognize this world. People do not show love or compassion 😢
Our youth are lacking empathy. They’re putting social media likes above lives.
Jfc... Sigh
This is just disgusting that no one helped. The future generations are in trouble if intervention doesn't arrive soon.
“We did everything adults would do...” - William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Guess no one has lived in the hood on this thread.
This is sick, what has Murica become
Sometimes humans disappoint me. 😔
What the actual fuck?
How sad and horrible. SOMEONE should have helped this young man. The bravest, most fiercest should have stepped in. Now, unfortunately, you can relive this for the rest of your lives with your conscience bothering you.
Horrible.
People choosing to make it big with social media over actually taking part in life when needed, is an all too common thing now. Do we really have to train our kids on how to be a part of the real world instead of observing it through a cellphone!
What are we raising? Animals?
This it the reason first aid corses explicitly lay out how to comand someone who is there but isn't administering first aid to call 911. All the people blaming the kids for failing to act are ignorant. The kids were in shock no doubt and naive to this strange social phenomenon.
Such a tragedy children with such a disregard for life -
Unfortunately in today’s society there is no type of punishment for this type of behavior with regards to the 50 to 70 onlookers. To bad they couldn’t be charged with aiding and abetting.
The moment that those kids took their phones out to record instead of calling for help I believe they became an accessory to the crime committed and should be held accountable. This happens too much to ignore.
Nothing is sacred anymore. It’s sad beyond words.
Pray for peace and our humanity. It’s being lost at every turn .
Before anymore people chirp 'bystander effect' how many wanna bet if the races were reversed and it was the black kid stabbing a white kid this entire situation would've played out differently.
Send them all to jail.
We need knife control! And social media control! No really this disgusts me. The rubbernecks doing nothing as much as the attackers. This is today’s youth. This is the product of our poor moral society. Every parent is responsible too! GunControl americanmorals
Into the abyss of regret go many
Just another white guy... 🙄 JAWG
Do you remember this...
Death penalty for the attacker!
Wow. Seriously...what is wrong with the people of Earth? That is just horrible and wrong. Poor kid. :(
By-stander Apathy.
Children of the CERN....🌽
For everyone saying it’s the same thing as watching someone have a heart attack- it’s not. When you’re not in danger calling 911 is the only option- PERIOD.
This world is finished.
Horrible beyond belief. We have raised a generation or two of oblivious, entitled, self-absorbed ingrates. Once again:
Anyone filming should be held accountable for the death as well! A fine, community service, jail time...anything to slap them with reality.
I don’t wanna live among the humans anymore👎🏼
How many Likes did they get?
Worldstar!
The wannabe “videographers” should all be charged as well
Maybe they don’t know what to do? Many people even with cpr certification aren’t likely to step up and take control.
The bystander effect is a well studied sociological occurrence and has been around a lot longer than “this generation”
have we degenerated into brainless barbarians viewing life passively through the lens of our smartphones?
So sad.
When you leave your kids to be raised by daycares....Why weren’t they all arrested under the GoodSamaritan law?
What a difference a day makes, one poor child dead, one child, now as good as dead.
Blame the parents for creating monsters instead of compassionate humans
WTF is the matter with people, young and old, that stand around while someone’s live is in peril and do NOTHING but record it. I just dont understand how no one will even call 911. A pathetic disgrace!
Are the whites okay?
!
They should charge the girl, too. She asked this Khaseen kid to walk her home for the sole purpose of making her bf jealous.
We were all streaming the screaming. So it goes
I remember a story from the 90s where an underaged girl was raped in broad daylight, I believe in a fountain, surrounded by adults who did nothing.
There is something perverse and generational about being more concerned with uploading video to social media than calling 911.
Parents and educators we need to do a better job with our children. Violence is violence regardless of what device is used to cause injury and death. Let’s start with fixing mentality and social interaction. Basic right and wrong.
Wtf is wrong with people?
50 to 70 kids just watched and filmed a murder instead of helping save a life. Millennials
Welcome to the cold cruel America
There seems to be a major problem with depersonalization.
Then all 70 kids need to be charged as accessories. That’s inexcusable.
This is like something out of White Bear.
That’s because websites like worldstar and liveleak give them a platform to upload videos like this. Effectively encouraging voyeuristic behavior that results in their desired outcome.
What th hell is wrong with their school?
Do you really expect kids to risk their owns lives to intervene. That is f'n ludicrous. I want police to report how many 911 calls they received before trashing these kids. Once they make the call there is nothing they can do. At least police have footage to use in court.
So the kid made threats, then showed up and executed it. Why is he charged with second degree again?
We’re creating an unlivable world. Humanity is definitely going backwards
What’s wrong with our youth?
maybe they thought they were helping by filming & creating a record, evidence... that is certainly in line with alot of how the current world works~ rather than prosecute them perhaps we can offer teachings on compassion & dealing with trauma...
The Greatest Generation, they ain’t
adonsports Identify all of them
No hope for our children's future!
Each one of those 70 kids should be held accountable for not giving assistance to this poor child laying in the street
Liberal snowflakes. More proof how deranged children are because of liberal policies
horrible...
Sick
That's the culture nowadays. Sit back and film it, don't help the person, then upload to social media for all to see.
a modern lynching.
Charge them!
I thought it was a law that you are required to assist a person in distress
We live in the hell Ray Bradbury feared.
i know this is inappropriate but does anyone have a link?
Charge all of them that didn’t do shit.
And you want to know how trump became our president? Apathy, the whole thing is disgusting. Today’s youth in many ways is regressive instead of progressive.
I forgot that millennials invented the bystander effect, oh wait 🙄
And today across America a bunch of 'kids' are marching in the streets to save the climate. This incident is in no means indicative of a generation.
Oh good it’s happening.
Let’s talk about how this horrific killing was a premeditated act since the murderer specifically targeted the victim, KhaseenMorris
May they all burn in 🔥hell!
Can we please bring back spanking?!
This is Trump's America.
so much darkness
Feels like the movie, “The Accused” ☹️
This is why in first aid training you are told to give instructions to specific people. You, apply pressure. You, call 911. You, wait for the ambulance. People won't just know what to do. Even with trained people, many of them will fail to react.
Get them voter registration cards, the Dems want seats.
SamChampion what is our country coming to this is sad. My prayers 🙏
amygetslit For those saying the kids need to be charged, tap the link. This is what we do at all ages and across multiple generations. People will have heart attacks while everyone around them fails to make a lifesaving call.
This is scary.....
This is truly horrifying.
Maybe they all really didn't like the guy, and all the pearl clutching comments are from people who forget what it was like being at school & watching a fight. But, yeah, let's blame phones. Why not.
America the selfish.
Jail the kid for the better part of his life and start prosecuting the onlookers and anyone who posted as accessory to murder. Actions need consequences.
This article is so stupid. It makes the claim people filmed and nobody called for help but then says someone broke their arm trying to jump into action, other boys jumped in as well and they had multiple calls for help. Lies from the cops, go figure.
This is just obscene. Seventy bystanders didn’t call for help?! WTH?
Exactly this:
How did Tyler Flach plead not guilty? Can someone explain to that me.
Savages
The way this society is going. We’re all fucked.
This some BlackMirror shit 😳
It is not a kid problem it a human issue. We have a hero issue in society where ppl hope someone else will step forward to help him while they can continue being bystanders. By having so many that could have helped him they felt their responsibility to help him reduce.
The teens who failed to summon help should also be charged.
One reason why I, and many others, are not having kids. Two decades of war has desensitized kids to the point the most horrific stuff is a chance to become a YouTube star.
Round up those kids and prosecute them ffsake
This is what some of us have always been-regardless of generation. Appalling-yes. Unique-no
This is simply the bystander effect in the age of social media.
This winner right here...
Det. Fitzpatrick: 'I don't know what to make of it, my generation vs. this generation. This can't go on. Your friends are dying while you stand there and video it. That's egregious.' Me: ummm...
Horrific
“Excuses do not exonerate the perpetrators, nor do they have any bearing whatsoever on the question of punishment or the consequences for evil acts!” JungOnEvil📚
“When the shadow aspect of the United States is amplified and its moral consciousness corrupted, it’s ImpeachaBall!”🇺🇸 JungOnEvil📚
And pray tell, what is NPR doing to change this culture? Quit shaming and be the solution you want to see
This is lazy, sensationalist reporting. You know better than this. Do better.
Police say the main suspect and six or seven other assailants charged at Khaseen, who was unarmed. 50 other kids, standing there watching, didn’t call for help & didn’t offer assistance. 😭😤🤬
😞💔 prayers for the victims family 🙏🏽 this world is just - 🥶
In addition to having conversation with the parents about their sociopathic children throw the fuckers in jail but the little assholes spend some time in Juvie
Diagnosis: too much stormzy This is where you end up if you listen to (c)rap music.
70 teens, 0 humans
Depraved indifference.
Sick.
This is the Kitty Genovese/ Bystander Effect with phones. It’s not a generational thing.
Likes before lives.
Dozens here, but hundreds of thousands all over the world gathered today for action on climate change 🌍
The Kitty Genovese of the digital era.
Every one in the comments needs to google ‘THE BYSTANDER EFFECT’
All those who filmed and did not call 911 should be charged as accessories!
Good ol’ groupthink.
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