First the New York Post came under fire for publishing the photo of a man seconds before he was killed by a subway train, with the grisly caption, "This man is about to die." Now the man behind the camera is at the heart of an "ethical controversy" for not reacting to save the victim who was pushed to his death.
According to an article in the CBC, the photo of 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han clinging for dear life to the platform was taken by a fellow commuter R. Umar Abbasi.
"It took me a second to figure out what was happening ... I saw the lights in the distance," Abbasi told NBC's Today show. "My mind was to alert the train." He claimed that he was trying to alert the driver by flashing his camera, then he insisted he was too far away to help.
"The people who were standing close to him ... they could have moved and grabbed him and pulled him up. No one made an effort," he added, but sounds to me like a lot of passing the buck.
New York City police have since charged 30-year-old Naeem Davis for Han's murder.
CBC has refused to reprint the image, out of consideration for his family.
Where should the line be drawn between documenting news and ethical misconduct? Are you disturbed by the fact that Abbasi accepted payment for those haunting images?
