Annoyed New York Metropolis straphangers are sounding off after yet one more unprovoked case of subway violence, the third within the transit system this week, based on police, left Samaritan slashed within the face — and one sufferer’s TikTok recounting of her expertise is resonating strongly with tons of of hundreds of them.
The tales have felt all-too-familiar and all-too-frequent in current months for a lot of. On Sunday, a 36-year-old was gashed for making an attempt to cease a person who was randomly harassing commuters at a Brooklyn subway station. Six days earlier, a 68-year-old girl was pushed down a staircase on the Union Turnpike-Kew Gardens hub in Queens, one other allegedly unprovoked assault, cops say.
Anjali Hemphill reporting on one girl’s warning after she was randomly attacked on the subway
A sufferer from a distinct violent incident took to social media to warn others to stay vigilant whereas on the prepare — and her message goes viral.
“Could I have done something, did I deserve it? Like what did I do to deserve this? I kept asking myself over and over and over,” requested Vesly Beato, who says she’s traumatized after a weird however scary assault on the subway on Friday.
Beato says she was sitting subsequent to her 15-year-old cousin as they have been heading uptown on the 1 prepare that afternoon. Because it pulled into the 66th Road station, she says she was blindsided by a slap to the face.
“The train doors open and I hear the slap. That’s when I look up and everyone is looking at me. It feels like everything stopped at that moment,” she mentioned. “I look over to my cousin, she’s crying. And then I hear, ‘She’s bleeding.'”
Beato says she was in shock, she did not even notice {that a} full stranger had simply slapped her throughout the face earlier than operating off the prepare, by no means even making eye contact or saying a phrase.
The slap left a gash throughout her nostril and Beato says she went to the hospital. Her TikTok submit has now been considered greater than one million occasions.
“I’ve been here my entire life and never in a million years did I think I would be one of those people to get f—–g assaulted on a damn train,” she says within the video.
Investigators mentioned that since January, there have been 5 murders, eight rapes, 347 assaults and 365 robberies within the metropolis’s subway and transit system.
Violent crime within the subway system was up almost 57% in July in contrast with the identical time interval a yr in the past, statistics present — and whereas these numbers do not think about the potential influence of post-pandemic diminished ridership, the circumstances themselves are trigger sufficient for concern, based on victims like Beato.
“These are senseless attacks that don’t make any sense. And if you can start with such a simple attack, what else are you going to do?” she mentioned.
MTA Chair and CEO Jano Liber mentioned they’re asking the courts to ban the person from the transit system for as much as 3 years. Information 4’s Chris Jose studies.