Posted on 09/06/2021 10:26:53 AM PDT by Hojczyk
A deaf woman fell onto the subway tracks in New York City after she was hit in the head by a homeless man who had been arrested for sucker-punching another victim just four days earlier.
Xing Zhou, 59, was on her way to church when a man hit her in the head at 10am Sunday morning at Manhattan's Union Square subway station. She lost her balance during the attack and fell onto the tracks.
Two bystanders helped Zhou off the tracks and waited with her until help arrived. She was taken to the hospital and given medication for her pain.
Police later arrested Vladimir Pierre, 41, who is accused of sucker punching another woman four days ago at a different subway station.
With the help of a sign language interpreter, Zhou shared her harrowing experience with Eyewitness News.
Zhou said she suffered a knock to her head as a result from the fall, in addition to hurting her leg and her back.
The suspect hit Zhou so hard that she said her glasses fell off.
The alleged attacker, who is described as homeless, was only given a desk appearance ticket and released shortly after.
'That's a problem,' Zhou told reporters, 'He's injuring people and causing pain. My head still hurts. I'm still in pain.'
Zhou said she's unsure if Pierre directed any anti-Asian slurs at her on account of her not being able to hear.
Despite the terrifying and random attack, Zhou said she will continue riding the subway.
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What’s a “desk appearance ticket”?
Around 30 years ago IIRC, a mentally ill man with a history of violent attacks pushed a woman onto the subway tracks in front of a train; she died.
There was a law passed and named for her that was supposed to protect people from crazy thugs.
Well golly surprise surprise surprise.🙄
NYC Family Vacation?
Nah.....
Kendra’s law. Involuntary outpatient treatment.
Just shoot this guy and move on
So they let this guy go after TWO assaults on women, (at least) one of them Asian? Well, I’m sure Merrick Garland’s DOJ will step in to rectify this injustice. /s
Me too.
Being born and raised in new york city, many was the time i rode the subways long before pushing people onto the tracks became a thing. Even then i used to take precautions against being pushed or accidentally falling on the tracks.
I stayed as far from the edge as possible until my train came in for a full stop. Id plant my back up against the wall. For a platform that was bordered by tracks on both sides and had no wall, I’d plant myself inside one of those I-beams. Any nut looking to push me onto the tracks would have to make the I-beam go with me.
All the time in the subways there always were several people who would stand right at the edge of the platform. Their toes touching the very edge. Theres just no lack of stupid people. Making themselves a tempting target for someone to push them over, or just slip off the platform accidentally.
Then when they could hear the train coming in, they’d lean forward to look down the tunnel. I’d think to myself, “standing on the edge of the platform and looking down the tunnel isnt going to bring the train in any faster, people”
The doors only stay open a few min if you don’t get in you wait for the next train. You say, ok. Wait for the next train? It’s a repeat scenario...all day long.
I don't know why people choose to live like that.
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/how-increase-public-safety-nyc-subways
no problems according to this.
It isn’t choosing to live like that. People using the train during peak hours on the way to work have to get there on time or get fired.
NYC is crammed full of people and the subways are overcrowded. The streets are impossible to drive. No parking most of the time so one must take the train. The trains are jammed.
I just don’t understand why there is not someone nearby who can fill one of these suckers full of holes. Actually I can because our laws have gotten so out of whack no one is willing to step up because the result makes them wish they had stayed in bed that day
This is why vigilantism was invented.
Where is old Bernie these days
RE: People pushing each other to get ahead to get on the subway car before the train leaves and they have to try the next one later....
In Japan they employ young men to prod and push the people with long sticks to squeeze more onto the trains.
Looked up name: In Japan, pushers are known as oshiya (押し屋).
De Blasio: “Darn. Why didn’t I think of that? Just right for New York City.”
From The New York Post, August 27, 2020: ‘Subway vigilante’ Bernie Goetz is a coronavirus quarantine denier:
Notorious “subway vigilante” Bernie Goetz is still going off half-cocked — walking around Union Square without a mask and declaring New York’s war on the coronavirus to be “bulls–t.”-PJ“That’s bulls–t about wearing a mask, and the social distancing,” Goetz told a New York Post photographer, as squirrels ate peanuts from his hand in the park...
The rodent- and pot-loving Goetz, who lives near Union Square, shot four black teenagers inside a subway train in 1984, insisting it was in self-defense because they were trying to mug him. He was acquitted of attempted murder.
He’s probably Haitian.
I have just become acquainted with the term “lateral violence” aka “horizontal violence”. This is where the persecuted minority homeless man attacks members of his own or another persecuted minority because he can’t attack the real culprits: racist whites. It’s a lame way to excuse black-on-black crime and black-on-Asian crime.
For the week or so until Bernhard Goetz turned himself in, the NY subways were the safest place to be in New York City.
They ran him out of town on DEATH WISH because he was too popular to prosecute. Don’t you remember?
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