In the minutes that follow, dozens of passersby walk around the bleeding girl, not stopping to look at or help her. A cyclist takes a wide berth around the body to avoid the body. One woman, holding her daughter’s hand, looks at the toddler and walks past as quickly as she can. And a second truck, apparently not realizing there is a body on the road, rolls over her, too. Not a single person stops to help the child until a trash collector who sees her moves her out of the road.
Shanghaiist, among the first English-language sites to report on the video, wrote Sunday: “Seven minutes, 18 passersby, and not one person decided to lift a finger. The only Good Samaritan, as it turned out, was a trash collector. Somewhere in here is a parable of life.”
The toddler has now been identified as two-year-old Yueyue, who is currently in intensive care at the General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command. Chinese newspapers are now publishing pictures of those who chose to walk past the girl without helping in order to pressure them to come forward.Social media news site Storyful writes that the video has “shocked the nation and the world — prompting difficult questions about human nature, morality, and the law.”
Watch the video below: (WARNING: Graphic content inside.)
Via:BlackMediaScoop.com
