Posted on 02/03/2022 6:53:42 AM PST by TigerClaws
A young doctor is speaking out after she stayed by the side of a woman injured in a carjacking.
She says the violent crime unfolded in front of her Tuesday afternoon at the Costco gas station on Carrollton and Palmetto.
The doctor's medical training and reflexes kicked into action as she went to be with the victim on the ground, but looking back she wonders could she have been in danger if the criminals were armed and began shooting.
“I'm still shaking. I usually have my kids in my car with me, and this lady, she's somebody's wife. She's somebody's mother. She could have been me. Five more minutes and I would have been the next car in line,” said Dr. Aarti Pais, a Family Medicine Physician at Touro.
Dr. Pais couldn't sleep last night after the woman in front of her pumping gas at Costco was carjacked. It was around three o'clock Tuesday afternoon. She says 35 cars were in line. Someone called out for a doctor. She ran to the victim's aid.
“I'm sitting there with this lady full of blood, and the Costco manager, and it starts to rain. I put my jacket over her trying to keep her awake. She was just in and out of consciousness. She was dragged, so she had like abrasions all over her arms.”
Dr. Pais says no one stopped what they were doing. She estimates it took EMS 20 minutes to arrive.
“It was a lot to stand there people continued to fill gas, and the guy behind her said, ‘Ma'am, can you move your car so that he could have access to the gas?’ So have we as a society become so immune to all this, another day, another carjacking?”
Dr. Pais is originally from India. She and her physician husband love the city, the culture, their children's school, they have successful medical practices, her friends and family are all here, but this was the final straw. They have decided to move. They don't feel safe at home after her neighbor was carjacked moving her garbage can.
“And while she got out of the car to do that somebody drove away with her car. Her kids were in the back. Like where does it end? Can't live cooped up in fear. That's not what this country is about. I mean, I moved here. Isn't this the land of the free, home of the brave?” Dr. Pais asked.
She says it's time for serious violence to be met with serious punishment.
I don't think it's just a carjacking. In my opinion, it's attempted murder, because you left this lady there to die. And if there are no consequences, what's going to deter other people from doing the same thing.”
And the doctor says the victim's husband called her this morning to thank her. She doesn't know the condition of the victim.
There are no updates available at this time regarding this active and ongoing investigation.
“She and her physician husband love the city, the culture”
Apparently not
The world we have made.
Of course, the current state is really that, for the other side, there are no consequences. They can get away with anything and no one bats an eye.
If the day comes when our side decides that we will do as we feel without concern for consequences, then things will be very different.
As long as it’s someone else people will get numb to other peoples pain. My gas is more important.
Nothing to see here everybody move on. 20 minutes for EMT arrival is unacceptable.
I seldom leave home with out my 9mm. I do hope I never have to use it but I wouldn’t hesitate in that situation.
Everyone, stop voting for democrats! They never solve anything, but everything they touch gets worse.
They actually thrive on this, though. Constantly calling attention to pricked l problems they are directly or indirectly responsible for through their policies, then promising to solve the problems they created if you just vote for them again.
Oh, and Republicans/ conservatives are racist.
Complete lack of description of the perp(s).
Hmmm.
Coulter’s Law. No description of perp within 24 hours = perp is black.
My wife and I were at that Costco, getting gas, just over a month ago.
It didn’t seem unsafe, then.
EMT money went for something else. It’s one of the problems of living in an urban area. Basic infrastructure takes a back seat to funding orgs with ties to politicians and hiring consultants as a kickback
She didn’t move her car so people could get gas? Racist!
I became fond of saying, "New Orleans is a city established and built by pirates, brigands, cut-throats, flesh peddlers and fugitives. As such, it is one of the few American cities that has remained true to its founding principles."
> It was around three o’clock Tuesday afternoon. <
That’s the most important sentence in the article. Yep, it’s time to get outta Dodge.
And if someone had come out and blasted those guys into that afterlife, as they should have been, they’d be interviewing the mothers, all of whom weight about 250, who’d be crying over their babies and they were just trying to get by.
“Like where does it end?”
“she had like abrasions all over her arms.”
Sounds like a Ph.D. not an M.D.
And what’s going on there with 35 cars in line?
Yes they were turning their lives around, fixing to go to community college.
And I remain in the City of Angels. (Los Angeles LoL.)
“Everyone, stop voting for democrats! “
You don’t fool me! I know that Democrats, while terrible and destroying the country as quickly as possible, are better than RINOs, who vote against us 20% of the time (or less).
Louisiana native here....truth. New Orleans is a city it is worthwhile visiting at least once, but live there........NWIH (No Way In Hell). And yet I have relatives by marriage that you couldn't get out with dynamite.
Good luck finding a place where she has zero risk of this sort of thing. Even rural areas are being infiltrated by urban scum.
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