Haiti Earthquake | January 18, 2010 | 118 comments

CNN reporter Anderson Cooper rescues Haitian boy

bushama
Anderson Cooper stepped out of his role as reporter Monday and rescued a Haitian boy caught in the middle of a looting that turned violent. Here's the raw footage of Cooper dragging the bloodied boy to safety.
  1. groups:
    Community,   News and Politics,   Haiti Earthquake
  2. tags:
    Haiti,  Rescue,  Boy,  Anderson,  2 more
  3.     
    |

118 comments // CNN reporter Anderson Cooper rescues Haitian boy

  • trut
  • itoldyouso
  • Atalanda_Cameron
  • futuregen
  • futuregen
  • shanklinmike
  • UrbanGypsy
  • EthicalVegan
    • 0
      EthicalVegan  

    • What this abbreviated clip fails to show is that there was an adult man who -- perhaps trying to protect his multi-storied building and its contents -- was up on the roof. He picked up a large piece of concrete, almost the size of a cinder block, and threw it down onto the crowd.

      The concrete hit this child straight on his head, knocking him unconscious. The child now faced the risk of being killed, since not only was the man throwing more cement pieces, but also the crowd was rushing about, paying no attention to the boy lying prone.

      So Anderson Cooper rushed in, when no one else would, and tried to pull the seriously injured boy away from the action.

      The child was stunned and very likely suffering from a concussion (and I hope not worse!), and when Anderson Cooper could find no additional help, he subsequently put down his own video camera (leaving it behind), and carried the child to a blocked-off area another storekeeper had created.

      The amount of blood says a great deal.

      Anderson Cooper is a humanitarian, so I would have expected nothing less from him.

      Then there's Dr. Sanjay Gupta who, last night, stayed in an abandoned open tent-hospital, because the Belgian doctors and nurses were pulled out for security reasons. There was no one else left to take care of these frightfully injured humans, including one woman suffering from necrosis in various parts of her body, after having been crushed. There were amputation victims left behind by the Belgian team, shortly after their emergency surgeries.

      And today, word spread that an emergency medical area was looking for Dr. Gupta. When he arrived, he was asked to perform emergency brain surgery on who I believe was a 12-year-old child. Dr. Gupta stopped being a reporter, scrubbed in, and performed neurological surgery under fairly primitive conditions.

      Dr. Sanjay Gupta is a humanitarian, so I would have expected nothing less from him.

    • 2 years ago
  • guerrillitary
  • bushama
  • EthicalVegan
    • 0
      EthicalVegan  
    • EthicalVegan:

      Who KNOWS???!??!?!??!?!??!?!?

      And that's the PROBLEM, damnit! Many of those initially saved are now DYING -- they're dying because there is no medical care.

      Dr. Gupta can't take care of hundreds of people 24 hours a day, as he HAD been doing.

      And when those in that open tent-hospital were 100% abandoned by their doctors and nurses, there was only Dr. Gupta available to even TRY to help with their post-surgical needs. And without the necessary equipment, either! These adults and children are being operated on without anesthesia -- just some sort of oddball sedative that I believe only kind of "separates" the mind from the body. How horrible is that?!

      It's tremendously sad for the people to watch their brothers and sisters dying in front of their eyes. The infection is deplorable and deadly.

    • 2 years ago
  • UrbanGypsy
  • Trauzer
    • 0
      Trauzer  
    • EthicalVegan:

      Amazing. Thank you for the detailed information. I am left speechless after seeing the clip; it is a true testament to the kindness we can show to strangers. I hope that poor boy is OK, as is everyone else in the open tent hospital.

    • 2 years ago
  • ryan8566
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • cztheday
  • lifestudentno83
  • keithponder
12
101 - 118 of 118
more from Haiti Earthquake:
from the community

top videos