Teenagers Recorded a Drowning Man and Laughed<br />“In the state of Florida, there is no law in place<br />that requires a person to render aid or call to render aid to a victim in distress,” Yvonne Martinez, a spokeswoman for the Cocoa Police Department, said on Friday.<br />The man, Jamel Dunn, 31, drowned July 9, and his body was found five days later when the police received a report<br />that it was floating near the edge of the pond in a park in Cocoa, a town with 18,000 people near Orlando.<br />In the statement, the prosecutor’s office said it was nonetheless “deeply saddened<br />and shocked” by how Mr. Dunn died and the failure of the teenagers to help him in any way.<br />The five teenagers did nothing to help him, not even call 911,<br />but after examining the video, the authorities said this week that they did not break the law.<br />Later in the day, they said that they believed a different Florida law requires any person who is aware of a death to report it.
