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post #1 of 14
8/24/07 at 4:41am
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294352,00.html

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — A security video from an apartment hallway shows at least 10 witnesses ignored a woman's cries for help for more than an hour as a man beat and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors in Minnesota said.

The surveillance video clearly showed men and women looking out their apartment doors or starting to walk down the hallway before retreating as the woman was assaulted for nearly 90 minutes, police spokesman Tom Walsh said.

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"(The video) shows one person looking out of her door probably three times," Walsh said. "It shows another person walking up, observing what's going on, then turning and putting up the hood of his sweatshirt."

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Minnesota law makes it a petty misdemeanor to not give reasonable help to a person in danger of "grave physical harm."

Walsh said it is unlikely police would pursue charges against witnesses in this case because authorities would have to show that witnesses knew the woman was in extreme danger.
Edit: Crap, didn't know I couldn't use html tags in the thread title.
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post #2 of 14
8/24/07 at 5:09am
Newsflash: People Suck.
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post #3 of 14
8/24/07 at 5:15am
Kitty Geinvievse.
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post #4 of 14
8/24/07 at 7:24am
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post #5 of 14
8/24/07 at 8:48am
If was that woman's relative I'd want to fucking burn that building to the ground.
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post #6 of 14
8/24/07 at 10:58am
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Originally Posted by Milkyway
Kitty Geinvievse.
Exactly what I was thinking.

How much effort would it take to prove the woman was in danger to the level required for the Good Samaritan law to kick in? Being beaten wasn't enough? Was rape enough? How 'bout both?

People will pick up a phone to win crap from radio stations, but they won't call the cops? You don't want to be involved? Crap, you're on tape being scummy and not helping the chick? Step up to humanity.
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post #7 of 14
8/24/07 at 11:21am
The perpetrator's name is Rage.

Maybe his parents could have just gone all the way and named him Rape. Or Multiple Felony Johnson.
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post #8 of 14
8/24/07 at 11:50am
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Originally Posted by Russ Fischer
The perpetrator's name is Rage.

Maybe his parents could have just gone all the way and named him Rape.
That's his twin sister.

Talk about an extreme version of a boy named Sue. No shock he's headed into some kind of institution.
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post #9 of 14
8/24/07 at 11:58am
Fucking appalling. It takes two seconds to pick up the phone and make a call, even if you can only hear what's going on and think someone might be in trouble. But to see it and do nothing? I don't know how they can stand themselves.
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post #10 of 14
8/24/07 at 12:07pm
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Originally Posted by LisaNewYork
Fucking appalling. It takes two seconds to pick up the phone and make a call, even if you can only hear what's going on and think someone might be in trouble. But to see it and do nothing? I don't know how they can stand themselves.
Quite easily actually. "That was a close one!" they'll say and go along their lives commenting occasionally on how messed up the world is.
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post #11 of 14
8/24/07 at 1:33pm
People who "don't want to get involved" have watched too many fucking movies. We've become a society of cowards, afraid that if we stand up for people being victimized, we'll miss the ending of "Dancing with the Stars" or the mob will get us with a car bomb. It's pathetic. People who assault women are the lowest forms of trash imaginable. But people who do nothing to prevent it aren't much better.
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post #12 of 14
8/24/07 at 1:40pm
What about the asshole watching the security camera footage?
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post #13 of 14
8/24/07 at 1:42pm
It's the building from SLIVER.
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post #14 of 14
8/24/07 at 2:13pm
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Originally Posted by Brad_Lohan
People who "don't want to get involved" have watched too many fucking movies.
I'd say that watching "too many fucking movies" has increase my acceptance/preference of/for vigilante justice.

Someone should have taken the law into his own hands and Judged/Judy-ed/Executed that guy.
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