In January 2014, a lifelong District of Columbia parks employee, Medric Mills, collapsed while walking with his grown daughter. They were across the street from a fire station, close enough for his daughter to yell for help. Mills was lying on the sidewalk, dying, right in front of people trained to save him. But they refused to cross the street to help because, they told bystanders, the rules required them instead to call 911. By the time the ambulance arrived, over 10 minutes later, it was too late—Mills died soon after arriving at the hospital.
Read all of Philip K. Howard's essay here.
2 comments:
The cowardice and failure of the bureaucratic state and our capitol city all in one paragraph.
Larry,
The erosion of personal responsibility and courage.
Michael
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