A New York City woman who suffered a shockingly violent subway attack by a homeless man recently called out Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over the ongoing push to defund the police.

Elizabeth Gomes, age 33, was assaulted in September of 2022 by a homeless man who chased her off a subway train and attacked her in the station. Security footage shows the man beating her and shoving her to the ground, pummeling her face and kicking her in the stomach. She lost an eye as a result of the attack.

"I got attacked," Gomes said, “and from lack of police being in the subway station at the time, being defunded at that time, there was no one there to help.”

In an appearance last week on the Daily Show, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) was asked about her stance on New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ choice to approve a raise for NYPD officers while making budget cuts in other departments.

Ocasio-Cortez stated:

We are now at a point where officially, most officers are paid more than a teacher with a master’s degree serving these same kids involved in these same incidents. We are defunding safety, defunding our public schools, defunding our public pools, defunding our parks [and] defunding our libraries. When we are taking all of those resources and demanding that every single department — except the militarized one — be cut, we are sending a message about who and what we care about.

AOC has come under fire for her anti-police rant, particularly as NYC had a 22% increase in crime in the last year, and a 37% increase between 2021 and 2022.

According to Elizabeth Gomes, the NYC crime issue contributed to the attack that left her traumatized and without an eye at the beginning of this year.

Gomes said:

We need both, but safety do[es] come first. If you don't make these children safe in school, how would you make them want to go to school? Once anybody feels in danger in any kind of way, they wouldn't want to go. You want to fix all these community places like pools and parks? But how would people want to go if there's no safety? I believe safety comes[s] with police officers.

 

Once you put safety first, everything else will go right after it. I cannot call a teacher if I need help. If a man is running me down, I cannot call a teacher. I’m going to have to call the police. I’m going to be praying for police, not a teacher.

Gomes said the issue had to do with New York City’s massive spike in crime and lessening of penalties.

"He was a convicted felon. He was in jail multiple times," Gomes said. “He killed his foster grandmother at 14… this guy was supposed to be locked up a long time. He shouldn't even have been walking the street at all with all the felons and cases he had behind him.”

New York City is not the only place suffering from lack of adequate law enforcement.

Earlier this month, Chicago experienced “Teen Takeover” riots leaving multiple people injured. Hundreds of teenagers assaulted people and robbed them, while also vandalizing vehicles.

According to one survivor of the riot, Lenora Dennis, the violence was due to the incompetence of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Lightfoot said that the violence was “not mayhem” and due to young people enjoying good weather.

“I’m sorry, Lightfoot. I voted for you … but I can’t be involved in any level of sugarcoating what I saw,” Lenora Dennis told Fox News. “That was mayhem.”

Dennis rescued a young couple from being beaten to death outside of a Macy’s store during the riot.

“I felt like at that moment, I needed to take action,” Dennis told NBC Chicago. “By the time he got up, he was bleeding from the mouth, his head, his eyes. He couldn’t make straight eye contact. It felt like he might have been concussed.”

Dennis said that she saw the attack and stepped in to deescalate the situation after she saw that Chicago police refused to help.

“I literally went out in the street and held my hands up to a police car and asked them to stop and motioned them over to what was going on, and they just cut a path around me and just kept going,” she said.

Florida congressman Byron Donalds responded to news of the attack and linked it to the crime spike across the country, blaming leftist activists.

“What we see in our cities is the result of reckless defund police activists,” Donalds tweeted. “Biden & Dems tried to reverse course but it was too late. Cities had already defunded police & decreased officer morale. We need MORE cops & a justice system that ACTUALLY takes wrongdoing seriously.”