The Legal Environment
sympathize with the policeman and his family, but the store has no liability. A er is not obligated to come to the aid of anyone in distress unless the bystander should sue those who attacked him. Argument for the Police Officer: We agree that in general a bystander has no obligation to come to the aid of one in distress. However when a business that is open to the public receives an urgent request to call the police, the business should either make the call or permit someone else to do it. created the peril, and obviously the store did not do so. The policeman