Speaking with Juan Alberto Vasquez, the passenger who recorded the video of Jordan Neely on the F train
There were dozens of bystanders to the murder of Jordan Neely — but only one, freelance journalist Juan Alberto Vasquez, recorded it and uploaded it to Facebook. By doing so, he inadvertently placed himself at the center of an ongoing debate about what people should do when witnessing a violent confrontation. Curbed spoke to Vasquez about what he saw that day, and what he experienced and thought about in the aftermath.I was on my way from Brooklyn to Yonkers.
Obviously, the conductor had no idea what was going on. He was just going to close the doors and keep going. But there were people who stood between the doors and said, “No! Don’t close the doors!” I went over to the conductor too, and he was saying over the speaker, “Police, police!” But obviously there weren’t any police in the station. So I went back to where the scene was. And that’s when I started to film.
This is a difficult question and I don’t know if you can really answer it, but I’m just going to ask you. Lots of people feel like you could have done something. Do you feel that way now?
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