A man crosses the street after buying milk at a local grocer. As he crosses he is struck by a car that seems to be chasing another car. He lies motionless in the street, paralyzed, while the citizens of Hartford do nothing. The driver of the vehicle that struck him is too busy effing around to stop and do the right thing, and the crowd of onlookers appear to just gawk as Angel Arce Torres suffers in the middle of the street in danger of being struck again. Chief Daryl Roberts released the video in hope of nabbing the hit-and-run driver saying to the citizens of Hartford, “We have no regard for each other.”
The “accident” occurred in broad daylight, about 5:45 on Friday, close to the downtown section of Hartford. It is the second crime, including the robbery of the Deputy Mayor Nicholas Carbone, in the city of about 125,000, this week, and it’s leaving city officials disgusted. “There was a time they would have helped that man across the street. Now they mug and assault him,” said the police chief. “Anything goes.”
