Occasionally, we’re presented with stories that make us really wonder about our collective humanity. This is certainly one of those stories.

On Tuesday, WMATA whistleblowing blog Unsuck D.C. Metro published an anonymous account from the brother of a man who “had the crap beaten out of him” last Sunday night at the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station. “He’s hoarse from yelling for help; no one came to his aid, though lots of people stood around and watched,” wrote the man’s brother. “He finally broke away and ran and pounded on the info kiosk and got the Metro attendant’s attention and got them to call 911. Metro police eventually showed up. I don’t know if the kids will be caught; the main ones ran off, while other ‘eyewitnesses’ offered to sell him their video footage evidence before they too, disappeared.”

Yesterday, that video footage came to light.

TBD’s Dave Jamieson proceeded to report on the attack. Jamieson was able to confirm the story posted on Unsuck was that of Allen Haywood, who lives near the Fort Totten Metro station and was simply heading back from his Capitol Hill gym when he was attacked. Haywood and his family were understandably dumbstruck that someone could simply be attacked so viciously in one of Metro’s largest and busiest stations — surrounded by people filming the confrontation, no less — and yet no one tried to help.