Teen in Portland Attack Issues Gut-Wrenching ‘Thank-You’ to Victims Who Saved Her Life

It’s almost unbearable to watch. But teenager Destinee Mangum summoned the courage to go on television to thank the families of the two good Samaritans who lost their lives protecting her and her friend.

“I just want to forget about it and not even remember it happened,” Mangum said in a KPTV video shared by CNN. “Because it’s just haunting me.”

Mangum and a friend were riding a public train in Portland on Friday when they were verbally assaulted by 35-year-old white supremacist Jeremy Joseph Christian, who told them to “go back to Saudi Arabia.” Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, 23, and Ricky Best, 53, were killed when they intervened to protect the two teenagers, and a third man, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, was seriously injured.

“He told us to go back to Saudi Arabia. He told us that we shouldn’t be here and to get out of his country. He was just telling us that we basically weren’t anything and that we should just kill ourselves,” Mangum said.

This is the moment that Meche, Best, and Fletcher intervened. “We turned…

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