A black man helped his drunk neighbor get home -- and got arrested
A black man who was arrested in Montgomery County, Md., earlier this month after helping his intoxicated neighbor says he thinks his race was a factor in the incident.
The arrest took place on the morning of Nov. 17 outside 23-year-old Samir Ahmed’s Silver Spring home. After safely dropping off his neighbor — who was drunk and repeatedly falling down — Ahmed said he noticed numerous police cars and firetrucks gathered near his driveway.
Someone had called emergency services to aid the drunk man, Montgomery County police told him. Ahmed explained he’d already walked the man home. An officer then asked him for the man’s exact address, and Ahmed was reluctant to share it, telling The Washington Post on Tuesday that he felt the situation had already been resolved.
That’s when things escalated. In an 18-minute video of his arrest posted to social media, Ahmed is seen facedown on the hood of car with his hands behind his back.
Ahmed’s family and neighbors are seen in the video gathered outside his home, visibly disturbed as they tell police that Ahmed did nothing wrong.
“He helped the man; he helped him!” a neighbor is heard yelling. “Y’all got him detained for absolutely nothing!”
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