The Chicago Four Attack.

News has been making the rounds of the attack on the young man who has a disability. Carried out by four others and streamed live over FB. I haven't seen video. I haven't seen the comments. But I've heard that not a single person watching the video had any decency to call the police. Or to get FB to take down the video. Has our society has gone that far down hill that watching some one who is clearly defenseless just as normal as watching the evening news? To the point that we would rather let things play out than do anything to help. Worse some people probably even felt that the attack on the guy was justified. Given current political elements we are in. How many of those people were cheering on hoping this young man would be killed. To say that this has bothered me is putting it mildly. I've been trying to wrap my head around on how much evil can happen right in front of our eyes and yet we made the choice to do nothing to stop it. Has our society lost that much compassion for each other? To the point that someone is brutalized and we say "it's not our problem". This story makes me sick. Not just for the attack itself. But for the total lack of help this young man got while this was streaming. Some can argue because of our incoming leadership that such attacks are justified. But violence is never a solution to a problem. Violence only makes an already bad problem worse.

-JM