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While walking around Downtown I saw a Parking Enforcement Officer across the street standing over a man who was lying in the street.
When I went over and began to photograph the man in the street a woman began to weep over my shoulder. She took out her cell phone and told the person on the other end that her father had just been struck by a car.
The woman was really shaken and had begun to weep really deeply so I put my camera down, and tried to calm her down. I took a newspaper out of my backpack and had her sit down on a nearby bench for a moment.
While I was trying to tell her to take deep breaths, a nurse came over and told the woman that she had witnessed the whole thing. I asked her if she knew CPR. She said she did but with a lot of shame in her eyes told me that she was afraid to administer it to the man in the street.
She gave her information to the crying woman and left. The crying woman having calmed down a bit got up when she saw that LAFD had showed up and the officers were asking her if she was related to the man on the floor.
I helped her over to the officers because she was elderly and I didn't want her to fall down due to the rain slicked concrete.
The officers and EMT's asked her again if she was related to the man in the street. Was he epileptic? Did he have a history of heart problems? The woman just wept and shook her head.
Then, she stopped for a second and shook her head. Then she said, "It's not him..it's not him...". She pulled out her cell phone and told someone on the other end that their father had not been struck by a car.
This still left the EMT with a man in the street. I walked over to the Parking Enforcement officer and gave him the nurses information and told him that she had claimed to see the whole thing.
At this point a man with a point and shoot digital camera in his right hand and a Styrofoam fast food soda cup in his left hand began photographing the event.
LAFD shot him a few dirty looks and then told him not to take anymore photographs.
He ignored them and stood on a bus stop bench and spilled a little soda on himself. Some of the onlookers began to give the guy dirty looks. But he didn't seem to notice.
The man was put into an ambulance and driven to LA County hospital.
At the time he left the EMT had yet to figure out what was wrong with him.
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