Sydney Benes lost her legs in a car accident. That night, at a bar, a security guard helped her down the stairs to go to the bathroom. When she returned, she found her wheelchair—valued at $4,000—destroyed at the bottom of the stairs.
The person responsible was Carson Brière, a hockey player, who had thrown it for fun. When the guard forced him to apologize, he merely said “sorry” and walked away as if nothing had happened. Someone uploaded the video: 100 million views later, half the internet was demanding justice.
A campaign emerged to raise money for Sydney. She took only what she needed to replace her chair and donated the rest to other people with disabilities. Carson received 15 months of probation and was kicked off the team, the second one to dismiss him. His career, by all indications, does not have much further to go.
