What could Hiram, or anyone else, have done, or do to stop a crime?

Hiram could have stop R.C from doing that to Emmett. Hiram just stood there and let it happened. What happened to the boys Emmett was with that day? Hiram should feel bad for what he did when R.C. did that to him. I wouldn’t hang out with R.C. from Jump Street. Hiram should have known that if he was that bad when he was little then he was going to be even worse when they are adults. If the other boys Emmett was with went down there where R.C and Hiram was at that accident would never happened. I feel as if the sheriff really didn’t care because Emmett was black. Hiram did do a good thing though he told the sheriff well the sheriff’s deputies that R.C was going with Mz. Bryant husband and his friends to “teach Emmett a lesson”. It’s a shame to how they tortured and killed Emmett for whistling at a white woman. The boy was only 14 years old he didn’t know better.