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New Yorkers Are Evil!

They all walked by a homeless person who was on his stomach, bleeding to death - after he had rescued a woman from a knife-wielding rapist.  That's the headline, anyway:NEW YORK ? The homeless man lay face down, unmoving, on the sidewalk outside an apartment building, blood from knife wounds pooling underneath his body.It wasn't until after the 31-year-old Guatemalan immigrant had been lying there for nearly an hour that emergency workers arrived, and by then, it was too late. Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax ? who police said was stabbed while intervening to help a woman being attacked ? had died.The reality is something different.There are a lot of bums in cities like New York and San Francisco.  Most often you just see a pile of clothes, or the outline of a body underneath a jacket or cover...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on April 28, 2010 (boomark / email).