3 years ago I was with my boyfriend when he began beating me in public at a street intersection. I remember yelling for him to stop and for help. Between blows I remember people looking and a few recording with phones. One guy, only one guy ran and tackled my boyfriend to the ground. I ran away. The guy found me and walked me to a woman’s shelter saying he wanted to make sure I was okay and offered to call the police so I could make a report. I refused that but did want to go to the shelter. When we got there the police arrested that man for assault. I tried to explain what happened but all I was told was I expereinced a crisis and my memory was not the best. I talked to a councelor at the shelter that THAT guy saved me.

For a week last week I got see the guy again in court. I tried to recall the story that HE SAVED ME. HE WALKED ME. That my boyfriend beat me up. We havne’t been together since that day. But my boyfriend was not charged for beating me up because I never made a police report. But when I tried to tell the police when they arrested the man at the shelter they didn’t want to listen. But the guy that saved me is now going to jail for 10 years for tackling my ex-boyfriend and he gets to walk free for beating me. That’s not fair. If it wasn’t for the man in the orange winter jacket I might be dead. I’m so sorry he has to go to jail for saving me and it makes me sick that the person that did the right thing lost his freedom. I feel like I ruined his life.