Would You Help the Victim of a Hate Crime?
March 25th, 2009

Last week ABC News' "What Would You Do?" ran an experiment which tested whether individuals would help a Latino in need who was the victim of a hate crime.  The results of the experiment were disheartening.  By and large, strangers did not stop to help.

Diego Sucuzhanay, brother of Jose Sucuzhanay, was invited to participate in the show.  Last December in Brooklyn, New York, assailants attacked the two brothers while yelling anti-Hispanic epithets at them.  Jose was killed in the attack with an aluminum baseball bat.  The brothers were about 50 feet from home.  

The experiment by the "What Would You Do?" crew was set up in Newark.  The "victim" in the experiment was an Hispanic actor who was verbally and physically attacked by three young White men in plain view.

Most of the pedestrian traffic just walked on by.  One of the passersby, Max Walter, a Latino explained, "They're attacking him because he's Latino, and if I get involved they'll attack me." 

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