Watching Them Drown

[327 words] It was shocking, to say the least. In July, 2017, James Dunn, a disabled man, drowned in a Florida retention pond. There is a disturbing video to prove it. Standing on the shore was a group of five teens – ages 14-19 – watching James Dunn drown.  Instead of going into the water to save him, they took their phones out and started shooting video as he flailed in the water and pleaded three times for help.  To make matters worse, the teens can be heard in a video they posted on YouTube actually taunting James in his final moments.  To make matters even worse, none of the boys were charged with any crime. There is no law in Florida that requires anyone to provide emergency service to anyone whose life is in peril (New York Post, June 23, 2018). Let’s hope that this was a very isolated…