I'm sure some are aware of the brutal murder of a 15 year old in the Bronx, where he was stabbed to death by a pack of thugs with machetes. For those that do not know here is a link to the actual video:
https://nypost.com/2018/06/26/innocent-b...ng-attack/
This incident has all sorts of issues, the stabbing was caused by the 15 year old uploading a sex tape of him and a teen girl to Facebook, teen girl gets her brother and his crew to take revenge.
But the fallout has now take a turn, as the City Council (and many social media users) are now condemning the Bodega owner from refusing to hide or protect the boy from his machete wielding attackers.
I'm not sure whether or not the Bodega owner is to blame here, and I'm not sure if I agree with the City Council saying he "doesn't have the right to do business in New York" because he was most likely scared and didn't want to get killed or hurt. And what they're saying essentially means any business owner who doesn't help a victim of an ongoing violent crime can have their business privileges revoked by the City. That doesn't seem right to me.
But if you were the Bodega owner would you have done the same thing, turn the boy away and left him to his fate?
Or would you have protected the kid or confronted the attackers, possibly putting your life at risk for some kid you don't know?
I don't think there was a moral duty or responsibility to help this kid, but I don't know what I would have done in this situation.
https://nypost.com/2018/06/26/innocent-b...ng-attack/
This incident has all sorts of issues, the stabbing was caused by the 15 year old uploading a sex tape of him and a teen girl to Facebook, teen girl gets her brother and his crew to take revenge.
But the fallout has now take a turn, as the City Council (and many social media users) are now condemning the Bodega owner from refusing to hide or protect the boy from his machete wielding attackers.
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A trio of City Council members says the deli owner who didn’t intervene when gangbangers dragged an innocent teen from his deli and slaughtered him should have his store shuttered.
“An owner who stands idly by while a 15-year-old is dragged out of his store and murdered in cold blood with a machete is no longer worthy of doing business in NYC,” reads a letter council members Ritchie Torres, Vanessa Gibson and Rafael Salamanca sent to the Department of Consumer Affairs Commissioner Lorelai Salas on Monday demanding the agency yank the deli’s business license.
Newly released surveillance video shows innocent Lesandro Guzman-Feliz trying desperately to hide in the Zesarina Grocery Store on East 183rd Street near Bathgate Avenue before his attackers drag him out by his hood.
Another video shows the sliced-up teen run into the deli after the attack, but a worker motions toward the door and the teen can be seen leaving moments later.
“While it may be unfair to expect a business owner, untrained in law enforcement, to perform heroics in the midst of savage gang violence, the failure to do something as basic as calling 911 is morally unconscionable,” the council members’ letter states.
Torres, who represents the district where the killing took place, spoke directly with NYPD, who told him the deli owner did not call 911, a rep for the councilman said.
The group sent a similar letter to the State Liquor Authority, asking it to pull the grocery’s license to sell booze.
The letter comes after tens of thousands of people signed a petition online demanding the deli be closed. The petition had more than 121,800 signatures — 42,406 of which originated in New York — as of Tuesday afternoon.
The deli owner could not be reached for comment, and DCA did not immediately respond.
I'm not sure whether or not the Bodega owner is to blame here, and I'm not sure if I agree with the City Council saying he "doesn't have the right to do business in New York" because he was most likely scared and didn't want to get killed or hurt. And what they're saying essentially means any business owner who doesn't help a victim of an ongoing violent crime can have their business privileges revoked by the City. That doesn't seem right to me.
But if you were the Bodega owner would you have done the same thing, turn the boy away and left him to his fate?
Or would you have protected the kid or confronted the attackers, possibly putting your life at risk for some kid you don't know?
I don't think there was a moral duty or responsibility to help this kid, but I don't know what I would have done in this situation.