While working on a story on the streets of downtown Port au Prince, CNN’s Anderson Cooper witness a Haitian boy get hit on the head by a piece of concrete thrown at him as he participated in the looting of a supermarket. Anderson Cooper is widely known as host of AC360 on CNN. The boy was bleeding and in serious danger when Anderson quickly ran to grab him and guide him to a safe corner. Minutes later the boy was taken away by bystanders, probably friends.

Anderson Cooper is the man. He saved this boy in Haiti. And yes, that is real blood flowing down the boy’s face.

Choked back by transportation bottlenecks, bureaucratic confusion, fear of attacks on aid convoys, the collapse of local authority and the sheer scale of the need.

Residents and citizens of Haiti are fed up with the looting that written fear in the hearts and minds of aid workers and earthquake survivors. The photo above illustrates looters will not be tolerated in a time when many Haitians are in need of a helping hand as this one.

The New York Times said “the police brought a man to Pétionville in the back of a pickup and informed a gathering crowd that he had been caught looting in another neighborhood, witnesses said. While the police officers stood by, an angry mob pulled the man from the truck.

The mob stripped the accused looter, then began beating him. They dragged him up the street while pummeling him, then threw him on a trash heap, where he lay vomiting and bleeding.

One man began piling trash on top of him and set it on fire. As the firelight flickered on an art gallery and a church on opposite sides of the street, dozens gathered to watch the man burn to death.”