They’re the mystery Swedish grad students that the world has been in awe of, the men that tackled Brock Turner as he tried to flee the scene of his crime, the men that Turner’s victim dubbed her “heroes”. Now we know their names.
Carl-Fredrik Arndt and Peter Jonsson.
The pair were key witnesses in the case that has courted headlines and captivated audiences around the world – that of star Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner, the 20-year-old who was last week sentenced to just six months in prison for brutally raping an unconscious woman outside a fraternity party.
Now, Arndt and Jonsson have spoken to the media about what happened that January night in 2015.
Cycling past the Kappa Alpha fraternity, the two men noticed Turner laying on top of a partially clothed woman behind a dumpster.
“We saw that she was not moving, while he was moving a lot,” Arndt told Swedish outlet Expressen (translated by BuzzFeed News). “So we stopped and thought, ‘This is very strange’.”
The pair approached Turner, and called out to him.
“When he got up we saw that she still wasn’t moving at all, so we walked up and asked something like, ‘What are you doing?’,”Arndt said.
A few words were exchanged, then Turner fled, forcing Jonsson to chase after the swimmer and tackle him to the ground, where they managed to pin him until police arrived.
The victim, meanwhile, remained motionless.
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I am surprised Turner isn't charging them with assault.
These men really are heroes, unlike Turner and the Judge!
(BTW Belinda, an horrific story like this does not "captivate" audiences.)