Posted on 02/06/2021 11:22:13 AM PST by Zhang Fei
The commuter who was slashed across the face in a random attack on a Manhattan subway train has spoken out, as the NYPD continue the hunt for his assailant.
Noel Quintana, 61, was on his way to work in Harlem on Wednesday when the unknown attacker kicked his bag and then whipped out a box cutter and slashed him across the face from ear to ear.
'I was scared because I thought I was gonna die and nobody helped me,' Quintana told WABC-TV of the attack.
Despite the shocking attack and a recent spate of subway pushing incidents in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio insists that the transit system is safer than ever.
'The bottom line is the subways in New York City have been made safer and safer over years,' de Blasio said at a press conference on Thursday.
'We can talk about facts and encourage the people to understand the facts. Or we can just create fear for the sake of fear. We choose the former,' he added.
Quintana said the assailant (above) kicked his backpack and then slashed him +6 Quintana said the assailant (above) kicked his backpack and then slashed him
'We choose to tell people that the NYPD is out there every day protecting their safety. That subways have been made much safer over time.'
Subway crimes are down more than 50 percent so far in 2021 from the same period last year -- but ridership is down roughly 70 percent in the pandemic, suggesting the crime rate per passenger may have actually increased.
Qunitana, who works two jobs, says that he was on his way to one of them at 8.30am when a disturbed man approached him and began kicking his backpack, which was sitting on the floor of the train.
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I thought it was another ‘aoc’ tale. But this happened.
Black thug attacking an Asian man...
Move along...nothing here.
Keep voting democrat NYS
Perhaps if he wasn’t a RACIST*, he wouldn’t have been attacked.
*he’s a racist because he’s not black.
DeCommio needs to be CUT down to size.
NYC has become a living dead, vagrants, nuts, thieves are all over. Stay away from the subway as many innocents are getting pushed onto the tracks. DeBlasio is an incompetent asshole, he has a puppet for a PC. The cops get no support. Cuomo oversees it all.....talk about a mass murderer. NY is dead!
New York has a long way to go before it’s back to its old self in the ‘70s and ‘80s. In other words, expect things to slowly deteriorate in the Bit Apple.
Yes, just another POC tale.
sorry fella- but your situation wasn’t nearly as harrowing as AOC’s was- so please stop talking about it- She ‘felt like’ she was sexually assaulted- so your story pales in comparison I’m afraid- just ask her- she’ll inform you of that- by relating to you some new iteration of her story
A black guy attacks an Oriental guy. Nothing to see here, move along folks. The subways are totally safe.
I was a kid growing up in NYC back then. Goetz was alone on that car. Back then, if someone slashed a helpless person’s face in front of a bunch of people, someone would have stepped up. Those thugs never would have messed with Goetz in view of someone they perceived as able to help.
Maybe there’s still a small enclave of good Samaritans like that out in Staten Island, but the rest of those people got smart and moved on to greener pastures. The city was always unforgiving in a lot of ways, but the city of today is soulless and cold, filled with ignorant, arrogant, and cowardly people who are equally soulless. That is why it won’t ever recover from the lockdowns no matter how much Biden helicopter money they burn.
Where do the most feral, dangerous, deadly people reside in America?
Where do the most queer, confused, nutty people reside in America?
Where do the most unAmerican, leftist, unGodly people reside in America?
“I thought it was another ‘aoc’ tale. But this happened.”
#metoo
“You don’t looks so bad. Here is another”
If bernie didn’t say it, he should of.
Are the guardian angels still a thing?
Where they effective at all?
If NYC is suddenly vaporized min a rain of fire and brimstone, I would not be surprised.
[Are the guardian angels still a thing?
Where they effective at all?]
Curtis Sliwa, Bernie Goetz, Paul Kersey (okay, he’s fictional - for now) - NYC needs some real Americans to step up, of the city will die a well-deserved death. I’m okay with their freedom to choose the path they have selected.
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