Earlier this week, a woman took to social media to plead for justice after she was allegedly physically assaulted by a man. According to twenty-five-year-old Andreinae Samuels, she had recently left Shisha Eight Lounge when she got into a verbal dispute with another woman. Samuels claims that before the argument got physical, twenty-eight-year-old Rene Flowers intervened and proceeded to beat her to the ground, allegedly in defense of his friend. Following the incident, Flowers proceeded to file his own report against Samuels, asserting that she had thrown a glass at him first. We spoke with Samuels today who refuted that account. Here’s News Five’s Britney Gordon with the story.
Britney Gordon, Reporting
The incident occurred between the late hours of Sunday night and early Monday morning at Shisha Eight Bar and Lounge. According to twenty-five-year-old Andreinae Samuels, she and her boyfriend had an argument, during which Samuels threw a drink at him. After being asked to leave the premises, she claims that she was provoked by a woman and later attacked by the woman’s friend, Rene Flowers.
Voice of: Andreinae Samuels, Assault Victim
“So I was out after Reggae Sunday at Shisha Lounge. I was put out because I threw a drink over my boyfriend. And went, I left to go and see if guy was at his house, if I came looking for like my boyfriend and they said he was not there. So while I was standing there, the girl, she was like provoking me and stuff like that. So we just had a back and forth and then after that, I had a water bottle in my hand. And before I could even do anything with this bottle or whatever, this boy hit me to the ground, right? He said he would do anything for his friends. And after he continuously hit me on the ground, The girl in the back. beat her whatever. Her friend came out crying, not really crying, but trying to help me. She was like, why you to try help her? And stuff like that. I had a group of friends who end up find me. And we tried to set chase up on the car, but we couldn’t because they were like swerving and stuff to try and make us crash.”
Flowers was brought in for the assault on Monday. However, Samuels would receive a call the following day asking her to report to the station.
Voice of: Andreinae Samuels, Assault Victim
“Tuesday, I was called in by a corporal and to bring my ID. When I reached, they told me I am detained for common assault. So I was like, really? I’m trying to get the understanding why am I being detained for common assault when I didn’t throw water on this guy. She then said that, it happened in Shisha that I threw a drink on this guy, his story also saying the same thing that I threw a drink on him in Shisha. This was said in front of the judge as well that I threw a drink on him in Shisha. He was nowhere in the vicinity that I was in Shisha. He also said that something about a pint bottle, never once you would have seen those glasses all over the place. Basically, he get bail, and it’s just like I just still in a shock because we used to work together and he used to be my friend. So that kind of was a twist to it.”
“I get a black eye. I have my knee that is messed up every day, like it opened up more. I have scratches on my buttocks cause I had on a skirt, like my face bruised at the bottom and just everywhere hurt. I can’t eat, that the one thing that is affecting me, I can’t eat because he hit me in my face, like a lot of blows. I just want to go ahead with the court case and see what happened from there. I have my attorney and everything already, so I just hope that it don’t go like this because he should have never put his hand on me because in no way, shape, or form that even respectable as a man.”
Samuels maintains that she never intended to get physically violent with any person involved in the dispute and is currently working on gathering witnesses from the scene. She implores the police department to review the video footage from the bar in hopes of clearing her name. Britney Gordon for News Five.
