Ash Kelley

Also, the moment Sophia Farr learned that Kitty was in trouble, she raced down the stairs and held Kitty in her arms.

Yeah.

Offering her comfort and kindness and like just somebody being there in her final moments of life.

That's the thing.

There was a lot of humanity involved in this.

Yeah, like we can't take that away from this.

Like the fact of the matter was if there was an action, it was on the part of law enforcement.

Yeah.

Who couldn't be bothered to find out what the fuck was going on until it was too fucking late.

Yeah.

Like that's the reality.

It is the truth.

But none of that mattered to the people that were saying this, like to Rosenthal.

All that mattered to him was that people kept reading what he was saying.

He kept building a name for himself.

In the weeks and months that followed, he continued to push the apathy narrative, determined to find, you know, a way to ride this wave of attention as far as he could.

In May of that year, he published a long form article in the paper titled Study of the Sickness of Apathy.

where he summarized the public reaction to learning of the inaction of the Genovese case, saying, what the devil do you expect in a town, a jungle like this?

Sir, go elsewhere.

Just go away.