In a News 12 exclusive, a victim and a good Samaritan spoke out after an attack at Thursday\u2019s Knicks Championship Parade. <\/p>\n
Cellphone videos given to News 12 were too graphic to show Jihad Robinson\u2019s face, after police said the 20-year-old Brooklyn man was slashed during the celebration. <\/p>\n
\u201c[The attacker] smacked the bottle over my head, and automatically blood started,\u201d said Robinson. <\/p>\n
Robinson said the confrontation started when the attacker touched Robinson’s girlfriend, and the victim tried to stop it. <\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are recording me [on their cellphones], putting the camera in my face,\u201d said Robinson. \u201cI\u2019m looking around, I’m panicking, then finally someone came and helped me.\u201d <\/p>\n
That someone was 20-year-old Hashim Shah. <\/p>\n
The two officially met on Friday after Robinson\u2019s family tracked the good Samaritan down through social media. The special reunion was so surprising that even the News 12 crew did not know that Shah was showing up for the interview. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking around and all I see are people recording [on ther phones],\u201d said Shah. No one has the decency to at least help him out.\u201d <\/p>\n
Shah, a physical therapist from Queens, jumped in with the assist by using the Jalen Brunson jersey right off his own back. <\/p>\n
\u201cOut of instinct, I took off my jersey,\u201d said Shah. \u201cI folded it and immediately went up to [Robinson].\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cHe held that jersey to my neck, told me I was going to be OK,\u201d said Robinson. <\/p>\n
Hashim said he held the jersey until NYPD officers arrived. <\/p>\n
Police said the attack happened shortly before 12 p.m. near 1 Centre St. No arrests have been made. <\/p>\n
Both Robbinson and Shah said they were unable to get a good view of the championship parade. <\/p>\n
Robinson was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he underwent surgery for about three hours and received more than 40 stitches. <\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know what to do,\u201d said Robinson. \u201cI felt like I was going to die.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cHearing him say that he doesn\u2019t want to die, and he\u2019s asking a complete stranger to help him, really just shook me deep in my heart,\u201d said Shah. <\/p>\n
Robinson’s uncle, a long-time Knicks fan, presented Shah with an autographed Aaron Afflalo Knicks jersey. <\/p>\n
It was a small token of appreciation for the hero who was along the Canyon of Heroes. <\/p>\n
\u201cThank you, God,\u201d said Robinson. \u201cWithout him, I wouldn\u2019t be here right now.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a News 12 exclusive, a victim and a good Samaritan spoke out after an attack at Thursday\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-272467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}