From Fox News:

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A security video from an apartment hallway shows at least 10 witnesses ignored a woman’s cries for help for more than an hour as a man beat and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors in Minnesota said.

The surveillance video clearly showed men and women looking out their apartment doors or starting to walk down the hallway before retreating as the woman was assaulted for nearly 90 minutes, police spokesman Tom Walsh said.

Police said they responded to a call of drunken behavior and found Somali immigrant Rage Ibrahim, 25, and a woman lying unconscious in the hallway early Tuesday. The woman’s clothing had been pulled up and she had fresh scratches on her face and blood on her thigh, according to the criminal complaint.

Ibrahim says he is innocent and that the incident was a misunderstanding, according to Omar Jamal, the executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center, who spoke on Ibrahim’s behalf.

Ibrahim was charged with several counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, prosecutors said.

Walsh said police were shocked by the behavior of the bystanders.

“(The video) shows one person looking out of her door probably three times,” Walsh said. “It shows another person walking up, observing what’s going on, then turning and putting up the hood of his sweatshirt.”

At one point, the 26-year-old woman knocked on a door, yelling for the occupants to call police. A man inside that apartment told police he did not open the door or look out, but said he did call police — although they have no record of his call, according to court documents.

Minnesota law makes it a petty misdemeanor to not give reasonable help to a person in danger of “grave physical harm.”

Walsh said it is unlikely police would pursue charges against witnesses in this case because authorities would have to show that witnesses knew the woman was in extreme danger.

Jamal said Ibrahim went into the hallway after the woman because he thought she was too drunk to drive. They struggled over car keys, and “he is saying there was a huge misunderstanding,” Jamal said, adding that the police report does not show “the truth of what happened that night.”

“He did not rape her,” Jamal said.

That doesn’t jibe with the police report however. From KARE 11:

Charged with two counts of rape, Rage Ibrahim turned himself in to Ramsey County authorities Thursday afternoon.

“Ibrahim is innocent of rape he said,” says Omar Jamal with the Somali Justice Center, speaking on behalf of Ibrahim

It all started Tuesday morning at a Saint Paul apartment complex. According to the criminal complaint, police responded to a call of intoxicated people in the hallway. When they arrived, they found Ibrahim and a 26-year-old woman, both naked from the waist down. The woman told police she was drugged and raped. Police say the alleged attack was captured by the building’s security camera.

“It shows the suspect striking the victim,” says St. Paul Police spokesperson Tom Walsh.

As many as 10 apartment dwellers apparently appear on the video, peeking out in the hallway and doing nothing. Michelle Malkin has an excellent post on the case linking it both to the infamous Kitty Genovese murder and the Islamic culture of both the assailant and the witnesses. Dhimmi Watch also makes the point that this is behavior that is more in line with Islamic values than American ones:

The attack occurred in an apartment hallway and lasted over an hour. While the report does not make clear the background of the witnesses, their reaction, or lack thereof, seems culturally inconsistent with American behavior.

Additionally, while the executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center spoke on the alleged perpetrator’s behalf, and claimed the police report “does not show ‘the truth of what happened that night,'” what are they doing for the victim?

I must respectfully disagree. I live in one of the “nicest” sections of the Bronx (for now) and I’ve seen this behavior time after time. A couple of summers ago, as I was recuperating from a broken toe, I heard blood curdling screams outside around 2:00 am. I get dressed, hobble outside and see four local men in the a brawl with two women. A fight which spilled over from a bar. I called the cops, they take a good twenty minutes to show up, and no one else is around so I limp over to help the women, which immediately leads to the men breaking it up. One did threaten me just before the cops came.

The assailants were not Muslim immigrants, but middle class third generation Irish Americans.

The next day the punk who jumped two women with his three friends and told me he’d kick my ass was still on the streets despite having been arrested. He lives a couple of doors down from me, and I have to glare at him so that he remembers to cross the street away from me while I’m walking. The kicker, all my neighbors heard and saw the same thing, but did nothing. None even called the cops.

That’s one of about a dozen instances where I’ve been the only person in Riverdale to call a cop when something happens, though I’m not the only witness. I don’t live in a Islamic area, in fact Riverdale is heavily Jewish and Catholic. But the behavior here is the same as in St. Paul and what links St. Paul and the Bronx is not Islamic tolerance for misogyny, but liberal tolerance for crime and cowardice.

Liberalism teaches people to give themselves over completely to the state, to wait for a cop to magically appear during a crime to save them. It teaches them that it’s the state that is responsible for the safety of your friends and neighbors, and punishes those who try to take that away that monopoly. But in situations like St. Paul the only way for that crime to have been prevented is for those neighbors to physically stop the rapist, and Liberalism teaches people that that sort of violence is almost as unacceptable as the rape.

I’d like to blame this horrific incident on radical Islam, but it’s just as likely that American Liberalism infected these people, teaching them to keep their mouths shut, to stop snitchin’ so to speak. It is a very American phenomenon, as evidence in the 2000 Puerto Rico Day Parade sex attacks, for “enlightened” big city denizens to simply watch crimes occur, to not get involved. The people who do so aren’t penalized or stigmatized in any way, so the greater risk is to act.

Which is why I’m moving to South Carolina.