Capitalism creates victims. The U.S is notorious for victimizing it's poor. Those struck by, or brought up in poverty are patronized, ignored, abused, trapped, and seen as worthless and inferior. It is thouht to be their fault and their problem. It is everyones problem.
Crime is a result of oppression.
It creates yet more victims. He thinks he's done nothing to deserve this. He has ignored this man and ignored his oppression. He has allowed this man to suffer. His thought was never to help this man but to support more prisons and increased police.