When asked why no one called 9-1-1, one witness said "I didn't have my phone on me at the time." Police say Angel Torres was lying in the street for more than a minute and a half before a police officer, on his way to another call, saw him lying in the street. That's when an ambulance was dispatched.
"It's a clear indication of what we have become. We see a man laying in the street who has been hit by a car and people are just driving by, and people around him walk by him. People always say what are the police doing? That is not a police problem," said chief Daryl Roberts. Police are asking witnesses who drove off to please come forward and contact detectives, and do the right thing. In Roberts words, "At the end of the day, we have to look at ourselves and understand that our moral values have changed and we have no regard for ourselves."
