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NYC mom Elizabeth Gomes will lose eye after subway attack: Blind injustice
The New York Post ^ | 01/21/2023 | Melissa Klein

Posted on 01/21/2023 8:39:19 AM PST by thegagline

The Queens mom savagely beaten by a ranting homeless man at a Howard Beach subway station confirmed for the first time that she will lose her eye because of the attack.

“I’m going to be blind in my right eye now,” said Elizabeth Gomes. “The nerve system is completely damaged and the eye is just deflating.”

Gomes, 33, said she is scheduled to meet with a specialist at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary on Feb. 13 to learn the next steps in getting a prosthetic eye.

“I mean honestly, I still wake up everyday and I still can’t believe it. I still think to myself ‘Wow I lost my vision at 33 years of age while I was just going to work. How can my life ever be the same,’ ” Gomes said.

Her life tragically changed shortly after 5 a.m. Sept. 20 as she got off the subway at the Howard Beach A train station on her way to her security guard job at Kennedy Airport.

A man who had been ranting about the devil hit her over the head with a bottle and then chased her before throwing her into the side of a token booth and then repeatedly pummeling and stomping on her.

Waheed Foster, 42, was indicted in September on attempted murder and assault charges.

Foster, who killed his own grandmother when he was 14, had been arrested weeks earlier for violating parole in another case, but was let go thanks to state reform laws.

Gomes has been unable to return to work and still fears being around groups of people. She lives with her mother and fiancee, Clement Tucker, and their 3-year-old son. She has two other children, ages 10 and 12, and Tucker has two. ***

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chatnotnews; crime; thenuffingang
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A parole violator and harden violent criminal was back on the street because of “equity”:


1 posted on 01/21/2023 8:39:19 AM PST by thegagline
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To: thegagline

And, God help you if you try to defend yourself.


2 posted on 01/21/2023 8:41:17 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: thegagline

I seem to remember something about “an eye for an eye”. Not expecting that to happen, though.


3 posted on 01/21/2023 8:42:33 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: thegagline

Some day somebody who’s been set free by a Maoist DA (like the one in NYC) when he should be behind bars will kill or maim some well known Rat Party politician.Of course when that happens it will be Trump’s fault.


4 posted on 01/21/2023 8:49:42 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: Fido969

I know I will defend myself and my family knowing full well the government at all levels will target me for reprisal.


5 posted on 01/21/2023 8:52:27 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: thegagline

I would want him dead . . . not in jail . . . . dead.


6 posted on 01/21/2023 8:56:21 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: joma89

Did the guy in red in the photo come over to help her or did he just stand back and watch????


7 posted on 01/21/2023 8:58:42 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: thegagline
I have no use for these people anymore. Nothing, nothing gets better. It only gets worse. And yet they are treated and coddled like princes. Back before all the “civil rights” bs, and “great society” crap, these people lived respectable lives by and large. Yet even though we pander too them, it only gets worse.

Savages have no place in a free society.

8 posted on 01/21/2023 8:58:54 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Fido969

I said it before ans I will say it again. It is time for all decent people to leave these hell holes. If you stay, you will be a dead people. It is just a matter of time.


9 posted on 01/21/2023 9:02:10 AM PST by sport
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Exactly...Ever since LBJ started welfare for single parent families, it has gone downhill fast...


10 posted on 01/21/2023 9:03:02 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: thegagline

Rope


11 posted on 01/21/2023 9:11:24 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: thegagline

70-100 years ago, what did we do with such people?

There have always been madmen and bums around, and we’ve always had prisons and mental hospitals. But why did my parents and grandparents never have to deal with such things?

I wasn’t alive at the time, but in large part, I believe that unwritten social rules and social cohesion were strict enough so that even a madman unconsciously understood the climate and likely consequences, so they automatically moderated their behavior.


12 posted on 01/21/2023 9:18:58 AM PST by PGR88
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To: thegagline

It’s the world our government wants us to live in.


13 posted on 01/21/2023 9:33:03 AM PST by Spok (They lie, we know they lie, and they know that we know they are lying. And still they lie.)
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To: JBW1949

Did the person taking the video do anything but watch?


14 posted on 01/21/2023 9:33:58 AM PST by Varda
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To: thegagline

The usual suspect.


15 posted on 01/21/2023 9:37:06 AM PST by Uncle Lonny
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To: thegagline

The usual suspect.


16 posted on 01/21/2023 9:38:08 AM PST by Uncle Lonny
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To: thegagline

Because that woman lost a vital organ that can’t be transplanted, this guy should donate an organ to society. A kidney, for example. Maybe two.


17 posted on 01/21/2023 9:45:45 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day)
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Live in the likes of New York City (or Chicago, D.C. or any other "diverse" city run by Democrats) at great risk to your life and limb.

Heard about another subway shoving yesterday, this one wasn't so lucky to "only" lose an eye:

Jan. 20th, 2023:

Man Pushed Into Upper Manhattan Subway Tracks By Ex-Con Died From Head Injury

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/01/21/man-pushed-into-upper-manhattan-subway-tracks-by-ex-con-died-from-head-injury/

What's blamed this time? Guns or White Supremacy? So hard to keep up...

18 posted on 01/21/2023 9:46:54 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: The Antiyuppie

HOW ABOUT A BRAIN-—For research....


19 posted on 01/21/2023 10:03:41 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Varda
Did the person taking the video do anything but watch?

It's from a surveillance camera.

20 posted on 01/21/2023 10:03:59 AM PST by Captain Walker (Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.-Pascal)
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