Jason,

You are writing like a 12 year old, not an adult. You cannot possibly be serious.

All you erstaz Daves,let this be a lesson: don't step to my skillzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Isn't it wrong to blog endlessly in a nice cozy cubicle when you could be out calling 911 to rally MPD to check on the drunks? You know they're out there, and you're doing nothing about it. So, that's on you. Isn't it?

In any event, I'm not saying people who walked past shouldn't feel badly. I think that's fairly obvious. But I think there's a fairly good chance most if not all of us could have done the same thing.

Whoever walked by should feel shame. They did nothing. No matter what--whatever they did in the face of Mr. Sanchez was the wrong thing.

I've been guilty of walking past passed out people before, generally they were located in places to be expected (bus shelter, under a tree, etc). I can't say for sure what I would have done had I walked past Jose Sanchez, but I'd say there could be a reasonable chance I would have walked past the scene as well.

I call the police for all sorts of things, whether it be gun shots on the corner (double shooting, hooray), or a man passed out on the sidewalk on 16th street. I try to not concern myself over wasting resources, partly because it is up to the dispatcher what priority to give the call, and also I do believe the mantra of "better safe than sorry" applies.

Is it sad that a lot of us have become immune to seeing people laying on the street? Totally. I'm not happy about that at all. I'm not happy about just watching people piss on the side of my apartment building and know there's nothing I can do about it. That doesn't excuse someone dying, obviously. However, I think a lot of people need to get off their high horses about this.

The people who witnessed the fight and did nothing, they should be ashamed of themselves. The rest, it's not as cut and dry.

Look, I talked to a neighbor and he railed in the video that the problem wasn't that people didn't call it's that PEOPLE OF COLOR didn't call. Get it? He blamed ethical failures on their race!

Is THAT your point?

No, I suppose it's not.

I haven't walked past someone drunk in the street in ages, but I HAVE had four 911 dispatchers refuse to send an ambulance to check on people on the ground and TWO of those incidents were in Cleveland Park and one time the guy on the ground looked to be about 80 years old. Thankfully someone was out of their car faster than me and I could drive on.

Yes, I wrote complaint emails to the mayor all four times and one time they followed up with a call that other people had complained about that same dispatcher.

The reality is that every one of those dispatchers who refused to send an ambulance sounded like either Fred Sanford or Aunt Esther.

It's the DC street culture. People who grew up here are a$$holes and the only decent folks are the gentrifiers. I'm not talking about race, like my neighbor, but I am talking about culture. Which one are you talking about Jason, race or culture?