Associated Press
Authorities in Florida say a group of teens watched and laughed as a man drowned in a retention pond last week.
Jamel Dunn drowned in a retention pond in the city of Cocoa on July 9. Cocoa police say they later discovered a group of teens recorded the 31-year-old’s drowning on video. The video was released by the state attorney’s office Thursday and audio was published by Florida Today. The teens can be heard laughing at Dunn, telling him he’s going die and they weren’t going to help him.
Police identified and interviewed the five teens involved. Cocoa Police Chief Mike Cataloupe calls their actions “utterly inhumane and cruel,” but says criminal charges won’t be filed because state law doesn’t require people give or call for help when someone’s in distress.
Republished with permission of the Associated Press.
3 comments
Peter Harding
July 21, 2017 at 12:50 pm
With all of this states conservative claptrap about respect for life you would think not providing assistance to someone in distress would be against the law in Florida. Nice kids, no doubt they would be glad they were not my children.
Karen Leidy
July 21, 2017 at 4:19 pm
Peter Harding you said it perfectly. If anyone is interested, there is a Go Fund Me page to help this poor man’s family with the funeral. I can’t process the apathy it took to ignore his pleas for help. Alot have said it was the marijuana they smoked. NO this is a bigger issue in our society. This was a “mob mentality ” and kids are very susceptible to peer pressure. Also, many say it is because they were African American. That is a load of bull. Teenagers, any ethnicity, can be idiots. Groups of white kids have displayed the same lack of humanity in reports of beating homeless people, etc. Apathy and child stupidity know no color!
Timothy Dunlap
July 21, 2017 at 11:44 pm
That’s not apathy. It’s enjoyment. Black enjoyment of others’ suffering is known from centuries of history, and from current events.
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