This is one of the sickest things I've ever seen.
Steven McCluskey was strangled to death back in February after his clothes got stuck in an escalator in a Boston subway station. Recently released video shows people just walked by him without stopping, helping, or even alerting the authorities.
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The utter and complete disregard for human life these days...
Anyone could have pressed the emergency stop button at any time and freed him. Instead, the 40-year-old man choked to death for TWENTY-TWO MINUTES.
People seemed to walk by without a care in the world.
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Are these people really that calloused, or just afraid? Have we become so conditioned to homeless druggies being passed out and/or dead in subways that we don't even stop to see if someone needs help?
Victim's sister: I want to make sure that there is somebody ... held accountable for the fact that my brother wasn't protected in a public space.
Victim's mom: They treated him like he didn't exist. Nobody cared. Nobody stopped. Nobody took the time to help. If somebody took that minute he would still be here today.
Hitting the stop button would be so easy, so simple.
Makes the Pharisee in the parable of the Good Samaritan look like a saint in comparison.
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