Urgent.. The burning of an American woman in the New York subway is evocative "Nadalah" Residents for 60 years

The story of Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old waitress who was raped and stabbed outside her Queens apartment building in 1964, has long haunted New Yorkers.

This incident, which depicts the “callousness” and passivity of New Yorkers since 60 A year ago, the details were repeated this time in a different and more terrifying form, when an illegal immigrant set fire to the passenger and watched her burn alive while the train was parked at the Brooklyn station. Early Sunday.

In addition to the alleged killer, video of the horrific incident shows bystanders and at least one uniformed NYPD officer carelessly walking or walking around instead of rendering aid to the victim, who was completely engulfed in flames.

Gerald Posner, a journalist and author known for his investigations into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, described the videos as “horrific.” As "digital Kitty Genovese" In a post on social media.

He said: I can imagine that if you don’t want to be the person who wants to rush in and try to help them, because you’re afraid you’ll catch fire, and you don’t know what’s going on – I understand. “But the idea of ​​not running to get the police, rather than just looking at the phone and filming the incident… made me think about the murder that happened in 1964,” Posner told Newsweek.

At about an hour 7:30 a.m. Sunday, a woman — who has not been identified by officials — was set on fire as the F train she was riding on entered the Stillwell Avenue station at the end of the line in Coney Island.

New York Police Commissioner Jessica said Tish said the victim was “completely burned within seconds.” After a man calmly walked towards the woman and used a lighter to ignite her clothes.

Videos of the incident spread very quickly on social media. The victim was seen standing motionless in front of the metro door while passers-by watched her, some filming her with their phones. Meanwhile, a man, later identified as the suspect, approached the woman wearing a dress and – instead of using it to put out the fire – started the flames with a cloth.

One day later, Sebastian was charged with murder and arson. Zapeta Calil, an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala who was deported in 2018 and later returned to the United States, in the attack that officials said was random.

When asked The New York Police Department’s comment on the officer who was photographed walking next to the burning woman, instead of rushing to her aid, referred Newsweek to the press conference the department held on Monday.

In that press briefing, Chief Joseph Gulotta responded The NYPD’s Transportation Department, to questions about whether the unidentified officer responded appropriately, said he “did his job to the fullest while his fellow officers went and got transport workers and fire extinguishers, and in the end, they were able to extinguish… Fires,” and “I went and spoke to those officers and I will say this: They performed their job duties — there were many officers, not just one, to deal with this heinous crime,” Gulotta said. “What the officers saw and what they had to deal with, as they were trying to get the fire extinguisher, I commend one officer who stayed there, made sure he maintained the crime scene the way it was supposed to be and made sure he kept an eye on what was happening.”

However, Posner wondered why people were standing around recording the fire instead of trying to put it out, and why the police officer did not, at least, take off his jacket to put it out. The flames.

 

In responses and posts on the social networking site “X,” other Americans drew similar parallels between the incident that occurred on Sunday and Genovese’s murder, specifically the photo of the police officer. Which did little to put out the flames.

One person wrote: “Seeing real video footage of no one doing anything, including two NYPD officers, while a woman was burning alive, is… Annoying.”

Another said: “The police passed by her while she was burning. People saw it and refused to intervene. And of all the things I’ve ever witnessed, this was one of the most shocking things I’ve ever seen, not because it was shocking, but because it wasn’t a ‘big deal’. For everyone who saw and filmed it,” said another.

He added: “After we watched dozens of videos yesterday of those people who did nothing to help that woman on the burning train, it seems that little has changed over the course of “60 years,” a third person wrote: “But I think it’s worse now, as the first instinct for many was to make sure what was happening was recorded.”

Posner asked, who admitted He did not know what he would do if he were put in the same situation, whether this incident might be a watershed moment in a society dealing with the intertwined issues of crime, chaos and indifference.

He said: "Not everyone will be the hero," I understand that, but there has to be something better than just being the person recording what is happening in front of you.”

 

In his original post on the social media site 'X", Posner said that "the only difference today" With the Genovese murder is that bystanders in Sunday’s incident were carrying phones to document the horrific scene. Through photography, he said, these bystanders helped document “why I sometimes think we humans are a failed species.”

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