A straphanger randomly shoved onto Brooklyn subway tracks was left traumatized to the purpose of being suicidal, his mother stated Sunday — whereas blasting Mayor Eric Adams’ newest plan to attempt to curb hovering transit crime.
Audrey Martin, whose son David Martin, a 32-year-old Higher East Aspect waiter, suffered a damaged collarbone and painful bruises within the Friday afternoon assault on an L prepare platform, railed to The Publish, “Mayor Adams is totally not in contact with what’s occurring.
“Extra cops? He’s incorrect,” she stated, referring to the plan touted by Hizzoner and Gov. Kathy Hochul on Saturday to flood the underground with further NYPD and MTA cops on additional time to attempt to stem the terrifying bloodshed.
“This can be a psychological well being problem,” she stated. “We aren't addressing the problem.
“Extra additional time shouldn't be the reply,” the distraught mother stated. “Mayor Adams was a cop. He ought to know higher. It’s all grandstanding. We've got a metropolis beneath disaster. We've got a psychological well being disaster.”
Martin suffered a damaged collarbone and painful bruises within the assault, in line with his mom.
Martin was on his method to his job when he was attacked.
The sufferer’s mom has known as subway crime a “psychological well being disaster.”
The mayor and governor’s plan contains new 25-bed models at two native psychiatric amenities for mentally ailing homeless people. It additionally requires cops and different first responders to obtain coaching on how you can finest transport the mentally ailing from subways to psychiatric care.
The mother stated the town must develop its psychological well being companies additional.
She stated her son was on his method to his job when he was attacked — and is now so distraught that he received’t even depart their condo.
“He’s utterly traumatized,” she stated. “He desires to kill himself. I needed to take a knife away from him this morning.
“He’s in loads of ache. His shoulder is totally shot. His again is totally shot. His underarm is totally shot. His face is continually burning.
“I can’t get him out of the home,” she added. “He can’t get into mattress, he can’t get off the bed. … He began smoking cigarettes once more, which he’s not presupposed to [do]. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know what to do.”
Requested if she had a direct message for Adams, the mother shot again, “Is there any level in speaking to him?
“You realize what I would like him to do?” she stated. “I would like him to start out constructing psychological well being amenities.
“There are all psychological circumstances within the subway, and it’s not being dealt with in any respect. That is how we deal with these conditions — they simply ignore it,” she stated.
“We moved from Manhattan to Queens as a result of we wished to boost our youngsters with out homeless individuals on our entrance porch,” she added.
A Metropolis Corridor spokesman responded to The Publish, “Mayor Adams has already spoken to Mr. Martin in regards to the assault and the way we may help.
“The mayor additionally directed his Neighborhood Affairs Group to succeed in out to Mr. Martin and see how we may help additional. They've additionally already related with Mr. Martin and are within the strategy of doing that,” the rep stated.
In the meantime, Audrey Martin stated that compounding her household’s private disaster is the truth that her son doesn’t have medical health insurance. He is also shaken by watching the video of his assault.
“He retains watching it time and again. He can’t cease. It’s not good for him,” she stated.
David was on the northbound L prepare platform on the Wyckoff and Myrtle avenues station in Bushwick about 2:40 p.m. when he was attacked.
Surprising video footage from the incident reveals the unsuspecting straphanger strolling alongside the platform when his attacker runs up and shoves him to the tracks earlier than fleeing. There have been no trains coming into the station on the time, and the sufferer was in a position to get to security.
In an interview with WABC Eyewitness Information after the assault, David Martin instructed the outlet that the shove got here “within the blink of an eye fixed.
“Folks had been instructed that I had no accidents, however I'm laying in mattress with a damaged collarbone, and my face is so swollen,” he stated. “And mentally I don’t know how you can even get by this.”
The incident is simply the newest in a spate of transit violence within the metropolis this yr, with 9 straphangers killed in subway assaults to this point — or already greater than every other yr in 25 years.
Stats present that violent crime within the transit system is up 39% over 2019 as of August.
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