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Shock Video: Man Repeatedly Robbed After Passing Out on NY Sidewalk

May. 24, 2012 7:49am Billy Hallowell

Rather than offering a helping hand to someone clearly in need, countless individuals repeatedly robbed a man whom they found passed out on a Port Chester, New York, sidewalk. The bizarre incidents were captured on video and suspects are currently being sought by police, as some in the local community express outrage and surprise at the lack of humanity observed in the footage.

Instead of phoning paramedics to get assistance for the man, local bar patrons stole a chain off of his neck, snatched his belt, purportedly stole a watch — and took everything and anything they could get their hands on. The troubling scene is disheartening, especially considering that no one robbing 38-year-old Sergio Palacios knew the status of his condition.

Police officers are vocally outraged at what the video showcases, as they claim to be going over the video in an effort to find the culprits and bring them to justice. Port Chester Police Chief Joseph Krezeminski, for one, is infuriated.

“People are rifling through his pockets looking for valuables. At one point he has a watch on; then he doesn’t have it,” Krezeminski told CBS New York. “Maybe after the first or second attempt there was no more to steal.”

And the police chief isn’t alone in his frustration over what occurred. Sean McNerney, the man who recorded the video and alerted authorities, was equally troubled by what he saw.

Watch some of the footage, below:

“This poor man,” McNerney said in an interview with CBS New York. “Nobody knows if he’s sick. Nobody knows if he’s hurt.”

Now here’s the real shocker — even after the robberies, Palacios remained passed out on the sidewalk for hours. From just before 2:30 a.m. to just before 6 a.m. on the morning of the incident, no one came to his rescue. When the man awoke, he staggered into a neighbor’s backyard. The homeowner called the police and, startlingly, the man — who had been stripped of his wallet and all of his belongings — was arrested for trespassing.

Authorities are currently looking into potentially dropping the trespassing charge, as they seek out those individuals who robbed Palacios. Currently, police are also doing an internal investigation to see how it’s possible that no patrol cars noticed the man as he lay outdoors, prone to attacks and robberies throughout the night.

(H/T: CBS New York)

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myway
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:13am
I have something to say, but it won’t be allowed. I wonder if obama will call him? Is it me or were these parasites black panthers?

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- lukerw
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 1:25pm
  I see the Victim as the People… and the Thiefs as the Government!
  
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- Ari Ben TZion
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 3:24pm
  Did you guys catch the brontosaurus in the mini-skirt standing to the right of the guy on the ground?
  
  Holy mackerel!
  
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- pavepaws
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 3:41pm
  Too bad. It seems like a true cross section demographically of the town.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on May 25, 2012 at 11:13am
  It’s a shame the guy went to NY City and not Oklahoma City. Here 1 out of 4 have carry permits and are packing. Someone would have stepped up and held them till the police got there. Our Governor Mary Fallon just signed into law open carry that starts on Nov. 1St. My wife carrys a Lady Smith and I carry a Judge loaded with .45 and .410′s. This is just another reason to avoid NYC. Only people that carry are police, body guards and thugs.
  
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politicianssuck
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:01am
Now why didnt anybody stop to help him? Oh wait, thats right, they are in new york and they are told they can’t carry in order to help themselves or others.

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- ThemDemsLie2much
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:07am
  Typical Obama voters!
  
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- Truthbeliever2
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:50am
  America has turned into a cesspit. Nuff said.
  
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- Jaycen
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:24pm
  America isn’t a cesspool, New York is a cesspool.
  
  This would not have happened in St. Peters, MO. It COULD not have happened. It’s simply unthinkable.
  
  I can’t imagine being gutless enough to film this happening and not walk out to stand over the man with at least a baseball bat in hand. “Inhumanity” only scratches the surface.
  
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RANGER1965
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:45am
Jackals.

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nelbert
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:31am
Unfortunately, stories like this tend to make one feel that the world is a totally sick place and that the barbarians are winning. It’s worth noting that there are many examples of good Samaritans out there (look up Victor Perez, Hasan Askari, Julien Duret, Wesley Autrey, Horia Cretan, Bennie Newton, or Ryan Young).

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- Zorro6821
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:55am
  What have we become….truly sad
  
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- mtcountrygrl
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:53am
  While you are somewhat right about the condition of people, you also have to consider time and place. Big city late at night, nobody out but the riff raff. All the decent people are at home in bed because they have to work in the morning.
  
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- TexasHunter
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:40pm
  This is what happens when liberals and dems just let illegals come into this country and continue to breed on our Tax dollars !!
  
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rangerp
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:25am
Note to self.

dont get stupid drunk, and fall down in a crowd of those white hispanics.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:18am
  Exactly. When a guy gets passing out drunk on a city street, it’s hard to feel too sorry for him. Somebody should have called the cops no doubt, but he’s got nobody to blame but himself. Unfortunately, if he had been in a diabetic coma, the same thing would have happened and he probably would be dead.
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 1:09pm
  Not going to make any friends here , but please correct me if I’m wrong … didn’t Jesus die for this guy? If one does not have compassion for one such as this then you have a heart condition and should see a doctor … I believe it’s called hardening of the heart and is caused by self- righteousness. The cure is easy ….well maybe not … at any rate… just lay off the “self”, and that will help … good health to you…
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 3:09pm
  Isaiah 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink
  Seems he was warned, my self righteous friend.
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 4:35pm
  This no doudt is true GONZO …but do you tell me that you walk by this person and offer no help. You even said yourself that one would have no idea why this person is laying there. Nothing self righteous about what I said, so don’t throw that back on me. The “woes” are up to God to dish out. We are called to help the helpless; he seemed a little helpless. If you try to help somebody and they refuse it so be it ….and futher being heros at drinking indicates a habit, this guy made have had his wife murdered, found out his daughter has terminal cancer and went out and got himself blitzed and was not A HERO AT DRINKING. And who warned him?
  Except you go help (maybe because of the omnicience of God in more ways then you know)) and tell him of his sin and the saviour from it.
  Sorry, you’re responce was weak … better a friend that tells the truth … you finish it. I can quote scripture all day long. ” Don’t merely read the word do what it say’s.”
  
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- churchdog
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 5:49pm
  Jesus died for each person in that video.
  
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- 4truth2all
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 6:03pm
  Yo Churchdog:
  Good point…
  
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wboehmer
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:19am
Port Chester, New York must be fresh out of good samaritans.

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- rangerp
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:23am
  Its those dog gone white hispanics again.
  
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AJAYW
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:15am
This may or may not have helped this person to not put himself in this danger

A book by Gavin De Becker – The Gift of Fear – The wife and I were given this book by a deputy several years back- Wow, It should be on everyones must read list.– It can save your life – tells you the survival signals that protect us from violence-

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dadsrootbeer
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:11am
Love those liberal progressive New Yorkers

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ehd
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:59am
people keep saying that when others show no compassion that they LACK humanity….quite the opposite….showing no compassion shows a lack of Godliness….a lack of compassion IS showing HUMANITY….study theology….the “natural” man is bad….God gives man the ability to be good.

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- rangerp
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:05am
  EHD
  
  well said.
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:22am
  Agreed.
  
  It takes effort and sacrifice to be good. Plus doing the right thing is rarely fun. Love, faith, hope, charity are not natural to man. These qualities are supernatural.
  
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- SgtB
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 10:06am
  EHD, I hate to sound in any way like I am proving your point for you, but…
  
  Go to HELL you freaking nutjob!!!
  
  I am not a regular churchgoer, but I do believe in God. And what I know is that more often than not, it is the churchgoer and simple follower who will go along with bad things every day of the year. I’m pretty sick of you people and your religious zealotry. Oh, and by the way, a more famous man than you said that for a good man to do evil, it takes religion. And that is backed up by proof. All the way from the castration of boys in the Catholic choirs a few hundred years ago, through the Salem witch trials, and into today when you have the Pope himself promoting a one world government and monetary system.
  
  Men can be good or evil without God’s influence. And if you believe in God, then you should remember that he gave you free will to do with as you will. He is not pulling your strings like a puppeteer. Too many who go to church are told that what they do is what God wants. When in reality, you are supposed to be learning what God wants and applying it to your life, not looking at your life and supposing that is the way God wants it. To be true, a man does not need to have a belief in a God in order to be a good person, and you know it.
  
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- rangerp
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 3:34pm
  SgtB
  
  I dont think you understand what EHD said.
  
  he spoke biblical truth. Reaad the book of james, and you might understand.
  
  Let us not forget that Jesus also rebuked the religious crowd. he called them whited seplacures full of dead mens bones.
  
  EHD was not praising the “religious crowd”. He stated that man in his natural form is a sinner. Those that truely get close to God, are the ones that are not going to commit the evil.
  
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:51am
Port Chester has a VERY large Hispanic population. Maybe Bloomberg is shipping ‘em up to Westchester County in anticipation of a new and improved Hispanic population to get that, ahem, economy going….

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mcFirst
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:44am
you could do this in dozens of democratic union run cities.

i know some areas that you would likely be killed if just dropped off and you were white.

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Unix
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:44am
Sickening, is this the America I grew up in? I cannot put into words what I have just seen and read, it makes my blood boil…American liberal cities are a cesspool of wasted human flesh. No values, no morals, no sense of community, this is the LIBERAL way. I abhor what has become of our country. The LIBERALS have taken God out of our lives, and this is a direct result of those actions. May God forgive us all. Conservative Americans have a hand in this too, we fell asleep at the wheel and let these HEATHENS take over, what a shame.

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- Vickie Dhaene
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:14am
  This is Not the America we grew up in. Your statement is most compelling. We need to pray for the people around this country that has forsaken our Lord.
  
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thop1960
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:41am
Where is that EMP when you need one? It’s the only way were going to be able to tack out the trash…if you know what I mean, and start over as a “civilized” world. Or, Jesus could just come back and save us the trouble, either way is fine with me.

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- hatchetjob
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:31am
  I have thought the very same thing, THOP, as much as an EMP would be hell for awhile, it would certainly clean up large parts of the country. I’m prepared just in case.
  
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Constructionist
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:34am
The real crime here is the behemoth in the ‘spandex’ dress. The guy was probably thinking, “Here, take my watch. Just put on something more appropriate for your size.”

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- hatchetjob
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:33am
  Sadly, you’re right on! That was some beluga.
  
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ScreamingYellowZonkers
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:29am
This is not the dark underbelly of some obscure neighborhood in NYC. This is LESS THAN A MILE from swanky Greenwich CT. No kidding, Google Map it.

We are doomed if we don’t get a hold of ourselves.

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- SavvyCowboy
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:44am
  Reason number 1,345,875,931,675 why I will NEVER live on either the East or Left coast. It is obvious why leftists like hill-uh-ree and beerock carry the day in elections in those areas of the US. The morons robbing this drunk are lower than rotted canine feces but sadly take time from sitting on the *ss (not working) to go vote for communists like beerock so they can “get their share” from hard working Americans. Let’s round up these moron robbers and send them over to Afghanistan; they can fight their way back to their lazy *ss couches in NYC.
  
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- trix
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:55am
  wrong … I live around this area … and although it might be “near” Greenwich it is a world apart … for the record Port Chester is a “village” far north of NYC … it is dominantly minority and largely hispanic … let’s not tip toe around this … please … everyone in this video is hispanic … everone in this video is an animal … no humanity here … I am especially repulsed by the people who just walk by … we all know there are animal predators around but “everyone” in this video is guilty … and we can’t make any generalizations ?? ? wake up !… do the math … does anyone notice the increase in this kind of thing since you know who has been president ??? hello!?!
  
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ADNIL
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:26am
This makes me embarrassed for the human race. We are overdue for a mass extinction. Bring it on and let God sort them (us) out.

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13th Imam
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:22am
Port Chester is a town on the Connecticut (Greenwich) border. It is the town that most CT 18 year olds used to drive to to drink when the NY drinking age was 18 and CT’s 21. Did the police ticket the perp for littering the sidewalk??

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AJAYW
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:18am
Nothing new here – just holder and obama’s people getting their fair share. It will be much more common if the narcissist is reelected and the racist holder keeps his job.

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hempstead1944
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:16am
New York City……Bloomberg……..Why would anyone want to live in this cesspool?

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- TAKE_AMERICA_BACK
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:36am
  Though I can’t stand Bloomberg, Port Chester is not his city. The mayor of Port Chester is Dennis Pilla
  
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- bry
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:39am
  Port Chester is not part of NYC. Bloomberg is not King of all NY state.
  
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spfoam1
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:06am
NY is like a cage with too many rats in it, where they start eating each other.

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- Altair
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:16am
  Perfect analogy.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:23am
  Makes me think of the story of the Good Samaritan-only there’s no Samaritan. How pathetic.
  
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ares338
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:06am
The police are LOOKING into dropping the trespassing charges? Gawd what a wonderful city you have there Bloomberg!

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- RRFlyer
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:59am
  That caught my attention too. However on reflecting, surely it’s just more of the terrible editing done by the Blaze (NON) editing staff
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 9:12am
  So if a “drunk man” “staggers” on to your property, you don’t want him arrested for trespassing? Did somebody put a gun to his head and pour liquor down his throat? Personal responsibility isn’t negated by drunkenness.
  
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chasbronson
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:06am
Welcome to the Jungle.Coming to ,or already at a community near you.There is no longer any moral absolutes in the minds of this perverse and evil generation.

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let us prey
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:01am
Redistribution of wealth. Get used to it.

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- hatchetjob
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 11:40am
  Yeah, those pick pocketers were just doing what our gov. does to us.
  
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jackact
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:00am
See…..the Obama economy does produce jobs lost & found.
:(

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KangarooJack
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 7:55am
Look how many of these animals just walk by him while he’s being manhandled and robbed!

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- let us prey
  Posted on May 24, 2012 at 8:05am
  Actually had to step over the mess and still they say nothing. Sad times in this country.
  
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