Watch or Report? Livestream or Help? Good Samaritan Laws Revisited: The Need To Create a Duty to Report
Journal: EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University (Cleveland State University)
Year: 2018

In July 2017, a group of five Florida teenagers taunted a drowning disabled man while filming his death on a cell phone. In the video, the teenagers laughed and shouted harsh statements like "ain’t nobody finna to help you, you dumb bitch." At the moment the man’s head sank under the water for the very last time, one of the teenagers remarked: "Oh, he just died" before laughter ensued. None of the teenagers helped the man, nor did any of them report the drowning or his death to the authorities.