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Very Bad Samaritans

Video of the hit-and-run that didn’t seem to interest passers-by.

Did you see this? Residents of Hartford, Conn., are in full soul-searching mode after last Friday’s hit-and-run incident in which no one initially stopped to help the 78-year-old victim. Police have now released a surveillance camera video of the accident. Here it is (but be warned—it’s quite graphic):

At the end, you can see that passers-by do gather around the victim, Angel Arce Torres. And after early reports that no one called 911, police now say several people did. Torres remains in critical condition.

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