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the OP? Half the people responding are disillusioned to realize that the world "is not a nice place", and that this sort of thing doesn't happen every 33 seconds the world over (Baltic Europe could be an exception).
It's not a great end story to hear, but it's as much the news source's courtesy / fault for featuring the story, if only because they obtained video footage of the assault, and subsequent events thereafter.
I feel for the now-passed person, but having lived in New York for a generation, (among other places) you quickly learn to mind, and then mind your own. Getting involved in something, anything, that is not your place to be in, can either escalate much more quickly than you initially could ever hope to imagine it would, and now, somehow, your life is in danger; or you get harassed by the police afterwards for being in "the wrong place, wrong time"-sort-of-deal, and now you become a 'person of interest'.
Still, not saying that anybody did the right thing when it comes to the deceased we are discussing, but again, for most living in the real world, there was not much done wrong either (save for the general instinct most of us possess 'to not get involved').
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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