My mother called today and asked if I’d heard about this story. It turns out that the man was the former pastor of an old family friend.
It appears that there was a rookie who didn’t know what to do and a lieutenant who should have known better. Many passersby tried to help, so your assumption that this is typical behavior of the type of people who live in Brookhaven (mostly black), is incorrect. The people helped as best they could. As usual, the government let them down.
You do not understand the political and legal and emotional problems these people face.
Based on my personal experience, black people are more likely to help than not.
Did either of them have medical training? If they had no training, they wouldn’t be much use. Same thing if the guy was an ALS patient and they were BLS trained. In either case, though, they should have made the 911 call for her.