About seven seconds into the video, a teenager raises the specter of death.
“Get out the water, you’re gonna die,” one of the teens shouts to a disabled man whom his friends are watching struggle fully clothed in a fenced-in pond. “You shouldn’t have gone in,” says another. The kids laugh.
“He keeps putting his head under,” another says. “Wow.” Once the group realizes the weight of the situation, one of the boys prods another.
“Bro, you scared to see a dead person?” he asks.
Teens taunt drowning man https://t.co/8eXBgGZ4oc
— Florida Today (@Florida_Today) July 20, 2017
Jamel Dunn, 32, drowned on July 9 in Cocoa, Fla., a coastal city east of Orlando. The teenagers, aged 14 to 16, filmed the incident as they laughed and mocked Dunn, then posted the video to social media. The video, which police called “extremely disturbing,” was found by detectives and handed over to Brevard County State Attorney’s Office, which recently released it to Florida Today.
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“He started to struggle and scream for help and they just laughed. They didn’t call the police. They just laughed the whole time. He was just screaming … for someone to help him,” Yvonne Martinez, spokeswoman for the Cocoa Police Department, told the paper, which posted only audio of the incident. Both the police department and attorney general’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The teens were identified and questioned by detectives investigating the case, but they are unlikely to face charges. They were not directly involved in Dunn’s drowning, and good Samaritan laws — which typically involve protections for bystanders helping on the scene of an emergency — don’t apply to the case, police said.
Dunn was at the pond following an argument with his fiancee shortly before the incident and walked in on his own, Martinez said.
“They were watching him,” she said about the teenagers. “Everybody is just horrified by this.”
Dunn’s fiancee filed a missing people report on July 12. His “badly decomposed body” was found on July 14, and a family member identified Dunn from the video circulating online. Dunn walked with the aid of a cane and had two young children, Florida Today reported.
Police said there appeared to be little regret from the teens involved during and after the incident. One of the teens stared ahead while he was questioned while his mother cried next to him, Martinez said.
“There was no remorse, only a smirk,” she said.
Simone Scott, who identified herself as Dunn’s sister, lambasted the teenagers for not contacting first responders.
“(Okay), I agree they don’t have to help, but they should have called 9-1-1,” she wrote Thursday on Facebook. She also expressed frustration with the lack of charges and slow pace of authorities.
“No one never reached out to my family to come identify his body before it hit the news, and until this day we haven’t identified his body,” Scott said.
Scott posted the video, along with a black image with white text: “How could you witness someone die and not be charged with anything? #share”
The state attorney general’s office said that “While the incident depicted on the recording does not give rise to sufficient evidence to support criminal prosecution under Florida statutes, we can find no moral justification for either the behavior of people heard on the recording or the deliberate decision not to render aid to Mr. Dunn.”
According to the police, Dunn was last seen in a red hat reading “Only God can judge me.”
Why are the words “teens” and “youths” almost never used to refer to young white people?
Some kind of code speak?
(or Chinese or Japanese or Korean or anything else other than Blacks or, occasionally, Hispanics)
Guess at the race of the two teens.
How about a guess at their IQ’s.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=35e_1427264335
I did some dumb things as a teenager, but never would’ve watched a person drowning and stand around and laugh at them. That is savage. Fucking animals.
When you review some of the crimes by blacks against whites, you can see that there is a whole generation of black psychopaths that must be dealt with. This is a mild example.
I watched the video, the guy was way out in the middle of a pond,
(how did he get there?)
1. without a boat there was nothing these kids could do, except maybe call 911
2. even if they did call, the Fire/Rescue would have only been doing a recovery
3. and this is the most important one:
“at this point, what difference does it make”
Agreed that they probably couldn’t have saved him unless they were good swimmers themselves. I’m not disturbed that they didn’t jump in and drown trying to save the drowning man, but they should’ve called 911 and tried to get help. In any case, you just don’t stand around and laugh while another human loses his life. For all we know that guy was trying to drown or get eaten by a gator.
The difference it would’ve made is a difference between being human and being an animal. These kids are animals.
100% what TJF said.
The teens didn’t have a legal duty to rescue him, but they are subhuman scum. Remember this in all your dealings with such people.
Greetings,
I’m sure that we will remember this when the EBT cards stop working and the rioting starts. No mercy.
“Agreed that they probably couldn’t have saved him unless they were good swimmers themselves.”
The stereotype is alive and well. While in bootcamp…a lot of the brothers were put on swimhold. No surprise here.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11172054
They’re obviously ghetto kids and probably can’t swim. They said they were smoking a blunt so they be stoned too. They dindo nuffin…literally!
Maybe he thought he was strong enough to swim to the middle and back, or maybe he was trying to swim completely across and couldn’t make it. There’s no indication in the article that he was not able to swim at all, even if he was disabled.
Perhaps the guys watching couldn’t swim. There is a nickname for them for a reason, “non-swimmers.” It’s the laughing at him that gets to me. I don’t understand how people can be that cold-hearted with absolutely no empathy.
None of the welfare rats could swim…..that’s why for ceuntries castles were surrounded by moats and there was peace throughout the land…..
Truther,
that was good
We have an entire generation of yutes to contend with that have no regard for human life, should be more interesting times ahead.
I’m starting to get tired of interesting times. I’m looking forward to calm and boring times. Then I can pursue my own interests.
Brevard County is a cesspool. Not surprising at all that this happened there.
Just let some 16 year old hoodrat bleed to death from a gunshot wound and find out EMT’s stood around yucking it up. There would be a riot and demands for the Fire Chief to resign. Black Lives really don’t matter but we have to pretend that they do.
the disturbing part is they so no glory in saving a life, however, jumping in would of been fraught with danger, drowning people take others with them in a panic, this is also florida, i would be extremely hesitant about jumping in there, gators….
AWFUL. However, I’ve seen people stand around accident victims (including myself) and do nothing
(except call the police). Most people just don’t have the training to deal with that kind of distress.
The exception for me was once a teen went over the 30 ft falls in the Stanislaus river in California (why he was swimming so near the falls I don’t know… stupid) and came up and yelled for help as
he was being swept down river. He got a hold of a boulder midstream and fortunately there was
a 50 ft rope life preserver nearby. Myself and two others pulled him out from the shore but honestly, no way I would have dove in that water after him.
Denis Prager had a memorial show with his elderly(deceased?) father and a caller put the question to him:
“What has changed the most about our society in your lifetime?”
Answer:
” People dont help each other as much as they used to.”
God knows I could do better, communities are built and maintained they do not exist in a benevolent state naturally.
Unless you have lifeguard training (Reach, Throw, Row, GO) you have no business trying to save a drowning person. I remember being told that a fair number of drowning victims were people who were trying to rescue the first victim: the victim would grab a hold of the rescuer and drag them both under. Red Cross sponsors classes at pools and resorts to teach the safe ways to rescue drowning people.
Another one is confined space entry: rescuers die here too. Suppose you are the “hole watch” for someone cleaning out a tank from the inside. There are all kinds of OSHA rules and regulations on how to do this properly, many of which are written from hard experience: the person on the inside should be wearing a harness, using which they can be extracted without entering it yourself. There are lots of documented losses where Joe sees John collapse inside the tank when the oxygen level gets too low; Joe goes in to rescue him, collapses himself and now there are TWO asphyxiated people to bury.
These teens are just sick, though; societal breakdown syndrome in action. Hope it’s curable and not too contagious.
What is the saying ” “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” . I’d have jumped in…I’ve done stuff like that before…and I won’t hesitate to try again .
I had a call while on shift not too long ago where a car with 4 people went off the road at high speed trapping all occupants inside. By the time we arrived at scene 20 plus people, most of them young had lifted the car off of one of the occupants that had been thrown out and proceeded to hold the vehicle while we extricated the rest with hydraulic tools until more manpower showed up and we could stabilize the vehicle. This car was 100 yards out in a field at night. All could have easily just drove on but they didn’t. There are diamonds in the rough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5Vwdc6u5M
A hominid-like subrace. If you accept that on its face and without emotion or hate remember it, you’ll be better able to avoid the consequences of interaction with them. I no more hate a negro than I hate a rattlesnake. But I’m always aware of just how dangerous it can be.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if the bodies of those guys turned up in that same pond.
Blacks can’t swim,
and the drowning guy was probably a suicide,
the laughing and taunting? How were these kids raised?
Those 2 teenagers will end up dead before they turn 21, most likely from homicide. Life expectancy of uneducated black “youths” is short.
Those young OJ/Obama niggers attitudes are quit common and TS will HTF before long. I doubt the name Custer means anything to them.
I could just imagine the news frenzy if a black man were drowning and several white teens laughed and posted a video of it as the man died . CNN ABC CBS would beat that story line to the death . There would be marches and riots and a fund to build a monument .
The “youths” will be charged – misdemeanor, not felony.
http://nypost.com/2017/07/21/teens-who-laughed-as-man-drowned-will-face-charges/
I think that you would be hard pressed to find 1 in 10 current films that haven’t got at least one scene with a violent death in it and I’m probably low balling it.
This is the culture we have allowed to develop, this is the culture we have fed and nourished with our own money. Every outrage, every new step across a further threshold of moral turpitude has led to this and it has all be the result of our inaction and tacit approval.
The only thing any individual or family can do to alter the course of the future is to live their lives according to their own conscience. Do not contribute to the cult of death, do not revel in it, rather abstain.
It is neither good, nor bad.