Number 8 Samir Ahmed
23-year-old Ethiopian immigrant Samir Ahmed was arrested by Maryland police, on November the 17th
of 2018, shortly after he’d helped his inebriated neighbor get home safely. Ahmed had been waiting
for a lift, after getting locked out of his Silver Spring house, when he saw his neighbor
stumbling down the street. He offered to assist the man after being told that he
lived only ten doors down. Ahmed returned to the spot where he’d previously been waiting
and was confronted by several police officers. They’d been called to assist the inebriated man,
who was reported to have previously passed out on somebody’s lawn. Ahmed explained what had
happened and even provided his ID, proving he was in front of his house. The police officers
allegedly became furious when he refused to tell them the address where he’d taken his neighbor.
Law enforcement allegedly smelled marijuana on Ahmed and a female officer accused him of
being “the intoxicated one”. In a video-recorded incident they proceeded to arrest Ahmed, in spite
of repeated and passionate protests from other neighbors who’d seen him helping the other man.
Officers found a small quantity of marijuana on Ahmed, who didn’t deny possession but later told
HuffPost that “race played a factor in his arrest”. His attorney was quoted as telling
the Washington Post “He's a Good Samaritan being converted to a criminal defendant”.
Number 7 Kenan Basic In November of 2018, Australian teenager
Caitlyn Gray crashed her car and subsequently stopped at a BP service station in Bankstown,
southwestern Sydney. 36-year-old Kenan Basic then pulled into the station and, for nearly two hours,
worked to fix up her vehicle. The entire interaction was captured on CCTV footage
and it showed the pair chatting and even embracing before 19-year-old Gray drove off. Shortly
thereafter, the distressed teenager called her boyfriend, who alerted the authorities saying she
was being followed in traffic. During her initial police interviews Gray claimed that, after leaving
the station, her car had overheated and broken down again. Basic, who’d supposedly followed Gray,
stopped next to her on a section of Milperra Road and offered his help once more. However, during
the second interaction, the teenager reported the father-of-two had inappropriately touched her body
and propositioned her for intercourse. She got back to her car and claimed that he’d tried to
enter the vehicle before she was able to drive away, with him in pursuit. In the period following
the accusation, Basic was booked into the maximum security Silverwater Jail for over a week. The
incident resulted in him losing his job and, later on, going through a divorce. Detectives
extensively checked CCTV footage from where the assault was alleged to have occurred. They found
no evidence of it and began to doubt that Gray had told them the truth. They questioned the teenager
once more, cautioning her that a man was in prison because of her statements. She ultimately
confessed to have lied about the assault because she wanted Basic jailed as he’d reportedly said
something that offended her, although it’s unclear what that had been. For making the false claims,
Gray was sentenced, in 2019, to nine months in jail with a non-parole period of five months.
There was an outpour of national sympathy towards Basic’s ordeal. Around the time of
Gray’s sentencing, two Bankstown Sports Club female employees came forward to claim that,
on three occasions in February and March of 2018, they’d been stalked or intimated by Basic. The man
vehemently denied the charges of which the prosecution claimed there was CCTV footage.
Number 6 Xavier Israel While attempting to help
a homeless man, in January of 2022, an unnamed 59-year-old man from New York City was attacked
and mugged. The incident, which was recorded by nearby surveillance cameras, began when
the victim gently placed the jacket he’d been wearing on 25-year-old Xavier Israel,
as the latter was lying on the sidewalk at 476 5th Avenue. Suddenly, Israel sprung up and pushed
the Good Samaritan to the ground. He then took the victim’s wallet from his back pocket and,
when the man tried to retrieve it, punched him back down to the pavement. Israel was arrested
shortly after the attack and charged with assault, robbery and grand larceny. It marked his third
assault charge in the space of only two weeks. Mere days before the 5th Avenue incident, he’d
beaten up a 49-year-old woman who’d tried to offer him help on East 81st Street. As news of his most
recent attack and rapid reoffending circulated online, some commenters blamed it on DA Alvin
Bragg’s new policy to downgrade felony crimes such as burglary, armed robbery and drug dealing.
Number 5 Nathan O’Brien On November the 19th of 2012,
in Woolwich, south London, Marcus Innocent was dragged into a car park and shot at close range,
twice, with a shotgun. 35-year-old Innocent had been targeted as part of an ongoing gang feud
but the authorities would later determine it had been a case of mistaken identity. Nathan O’Brien,
aged 19 at the time, and two friends came upon the man as he was dying. A trained first-aider,
O’Brien performed CPR on Innocent after telling his friends to call the emergency services. Even
after Innocent was pronounced dead, O’Brien remained at the scene to provide a witness
statement to the authorities. As per his account of the interaction that followed, the police’s
attitude towards him and his friends changed after they refused to go to the station, because of
the “emotion and exhaustion” of the incident. In a dramatic twist of events, they were suspected of
having murdered Innocent themselves. O’Brien had a criminal record but was reportedly committed to
turning his life around. He admitted his criminal past to the police and that he’d known Innocent,
but adamantly denied killing him. Nevertheless, he and his friends were arrested and taken to
Lewisham Police Station. O’Brien, who allegedly still had blood on his hands from trying to help
the dying man, was held for 38 hours and forced to give DNA. He later stated that he suffered
from PTSD associated with his treatment by the police for his good intentions. O’Brien
and his friends filed a civil lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police that was ultimately
settled for an undisclosed sum. Four years after trying to help the dying victim, O’Brien received
an official letter from the Metropolitan Police in which they apologized for his wrongful arrest.
Number 4 Tasmine Kemp
During a night out in Worcester, England, 27-year-old makeup and special effects artist
Tasmine Kemp got into a heated argument with her partner, on February the 5th of
2022. He was alleged to have pushed her into a shop window and threatened to punch her.
Three police officers saw that the woman was in trouble and rushed in to arrest her partner.
They were left in a state of total confusion when Kemp then violently lashed out and started
screaming at them to get off her partner. Without warning, she clawed a male officer in his face,
tearing skin off and causing blood to drip down to his uniform. She slapped a female officer in the
face, which resulted in “pain and sensitivity to her teeth”. As she was being searched,
Kemp forcefully launched herself forward and tried headbutting a third officer,
who managed to dodge the strike. The makeup artist was taken into custody and eventually admitted
three assaults on emergency workers. In the ensuing legal proceedings, her defense noted
that Kemp and the man with whom she’d been arguing on the night were still together.
She reportedly hadn’t felt police intervention had been required but admitted that, from the outside,
it would’ve looked that way. Her defense argued that, while under the influence of alcohol,
she’d “simply just lost her head” upon seeing her partner being carried off. Kemp was handed a
12-month community order, ordered to do 120 hours of unpaid work and given an electronic tag that
imposed a curfew of 7pm to 7am. Number 3 Jenny Santos
In February of 2017, Jenny Santos and her twin sister, Jessica, were at the Oculus structure
of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, in New York City. At around 5 am, the two women were
reportedly “horsing around” after a night out in Manhattan. Jessica’s hat then fell onto a ledge
next to a top tier escalator and, as reported by the NY Daily News, 29-year-old Jenny went
to a security guard to ask for assistance. The man told her that he was unable to leave
his station. Jenny consequently leaned over to try and grab the hat herself. Unfortunately,
she lost her balance and plunged over 30 feet to the main concourse below. She suffered critical
injuries and was later pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital. A post-mortem examination revealed that
she had a blood alcohol content that was nearly twice the legal driving limit, an aspect that was
suspected to have been a factor in the fatal fall. Today's topic was requested by Dominic Montgomery,
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us know in the comments section below. Number 2 Paula Kudray
Englishwoman Paula Kudray, aged 41, was convicted of assault, in July of 2018, after violently
lashing out at paramedics who’d been called to help her. In November of the previous year,
ambulance staff had been called to Newton Heath, Manchester, following reports of an intoxicated
woman lying on the ground. As a pair of paramedics approached Kudray, the woman suddenly punched one
of them in the arm before kicking, spitting and trying to bite both of them. The emergency workers
were successful in restraining her until the police arrived at the scene. The paramedic
who’d been punched by Kudray chose not to have her identity revealed but, speaking to a media outlet,
described the unprovoked attack as “extremely distressing”. It left her with PTSD and
questioning her 19-year career in the ambulance service. Kudray was sentenced to a 12-month
community order with a requirement to complete a mental health treatment program and undertake 15
days of rehabilitation activity. Number 1 Adam Haner
On August the 16th of 2020, amidst BLM protests in downtown Portland, Oregon, Adam Haner became
the victim of a brutal assault. According to his account of the preceding events, Haner had seen a
transgender woman, whom he didn’t know, getting robbed and attacked. The one-time firefighter,
who hadn’t been taking part in the protests, later claimed that he’d instinctually tried to help
the unnamed victim. His power steering belt then came off as he drove away and Haner crashed into
a tree while attempting to make a turn. A mob of protesters subsequently swarmed the vehicle and,
after he got out, Haner tried to explain that he hadn’t been trying to hurt anyone. He and
his girlfriend, Tammie Martin, were reportedly called white supremacists. Haner, who’d marched
in BLM protests in the past and identified himself as being “for their cause”, told the mob he wasn’t
their “enemy”. He was, nevertheless, thrown to the ground, repeatedly struck and ultimately
beaten unconscious. Martin was battered as well but her injuries proved less severe. Haner woke
up in the ICU, after having suffered head wounds, three broken ribs and two black eyes. There was a
considerable degree of public outrage as clips from the attack started circulating online.
26-year-old Marquise Love, the man who’d punched Haner unconscious, surrendered to the authorities
several days after the beating. Love, who publicly apologized to the victim in the aftermath, pleaded
guilty to third-degree assault and felony riot for which he was sentenced to 20 months in prison.
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