My editor asked me to draw a comic based on the now famous (or should I say infamous) Hartford "Hit & Run".
Click here to watch Surveillance Video of Graphic Hit-and-Run .
Please don't mistaken this drawing for anything other than a statement of moral conscience. I am NOT making fun of the gentleman that got hit by the car, But instead I'm making a statement about the lack of humanity in what happens (or in this case, what doesn't happen) AFTER the hit & run.
As the Gentleman lies in the street helpless and paralyzed, A full minute passes - before a crowd steps off the sidewalk and gathers around him, and at least eight vehicles drove past him, one SUV pulled over, as if to acknowledge that they witnessed the hit and run, but then a few seconds later, pulls back into traffic and drives away. Even a guy on a scooter circles him, and then drives away.
All this takes place in just over a minute, before the police just happened to be on route to an unrelated call.
How sad that no-one immediately came to the mans aid, even just to hold his hand, or say, "I'll stay with you until the police arrive". He just laid on the ground in pain, as everyone else went about their business.
This comic shows five people holding something and each one has the label of a different city in Connecticut. The point of this, is to show that this sort of thing happens in every city across the state. It's not just isolated to Hartford. More often than not, it seems that more and more people in this state have an attitude of "Don't get me involved" or "It's not my problem".
Congratulations people ..... Connecticut got national attention, because nobody did anything.
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