{"id":1989623,"date":"2023-08-03T12:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T16:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-doctor-who-was-brutally-attacked-holds-city-accountable\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T12:17:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T16:17:42","slug":"portland-doctor-who-was-brutally-attacked-holds-city-accountable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-doctor-who-was-brutally-attacked-holds-city-accountable\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland doctor attacked, seeks justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fportland-doctor-who-was-brutally-attacked-holds-city-accountable%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1989623&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via\u2064 Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Oregon Doctor Knocked Unconscious in Unprovoked Attack<\/h2>\n<p>A doctor in Portland was knocked unconscious while walking in the \u200dcity on\u2062 Friday night, \u2062then\u2064 waited for \u2064over 20 minutes for a police response.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PORTLAND, Oregon \u2013 Police are asking for the \u2064public\u2019s help after an unknown suspect knocked a woman unconscious with \u200ca metal bottle in NW Portland.<\/p>\n<p>Video\u200c shows Dr. Mary Costantino walking near a MAX train station\u200b when she was hit by a metal \u2062water bottle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2063 got hit and I \u2063fell\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bRT43gX5NK\">pic.twitter.com\/bRT43gX5NK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Denn Dunham\u200d (@DennD68) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DennD68\/status\/1687093203449630722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Mary Costantino\u2062 said \u2062that she was walking with a \u2064friend in downtown Portland around\u2063 10:50 on Friday night when she was knocked unconscious by a homeless \u200dman who had thrown an aluminum water bottle and\u200c struck \u2062her in the face.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage lifted from a nearby camera showed the\u200c unidentified \u200battacker approaching them and, without provocation, throwing the bottle at \u2063her, striking her on the \u2063left \u200dside of \u2064her face.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u200b happened really fast, kind of\u2064 out of nowhere,\u201d Costantino told Fox News. \u201cHe\u200d just threw\u2063 an aluminum water bottle and it hit my face. It was hurled pretty \u200dhard and it \u200cjust got me,\u200d just knocked me right in the head.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The radiologist \u2063had been knocked unconscious momentarily by the unprovoked attack. When she woke up she had blood pouring from her mouth and feared \u200cfor her life. She immediately called 911. \u200cThe doctor had \u200dsuffered\u200d a black eye,\u200b a \u2064cut on her nose, and \u200da busted lip as \u200da result of the attack.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI thought we\u2063 were still being sort\u2062 of attacked some\u200b way and so I managed to \u2062call 911. \u200bI was very calm, but I was also very sure\u2062 I was going\u2062 to die,\u201d \u2064Costantino added. \u201cIn my\u200d head, I was like \u2018I\u2019m gonna try and just verbalize a report of what\u2064 was happening so there\u2019s some record \u2062of how I died.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Costantino said that she waited over 20 minutes for police to respond to the\u2062 area, and when they finally \u200barrived, she\u2062 had already left.\u200d <\/p>\n<p>However, she\u2064 said she does not hold the police accountable, \u200cshe says that the\u2063 city is responsible.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI do not hold the police accountable for this at all, I hold our city accountable for defunding the police and making it (that) we are in\u2064 this\u2064 situation where we don\u2019t have enough police force to protect our citizens, and we did this\u200c to ourselves,\u201d Costantino said. \u2063\u201cIf\u2064 we\u200c don\u2019t have police officers to come\u200b to the side \u200bof somebody who is under attack, then we are all on our own.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The mother \u2063of two said she was thankful for her friend who had \u201caggressively\u200c yelled\u201d at the attacker that had also tried to\u2062 approach her while she was unconscious. She\u2063 went on to\u2064 say that she \u2063does not\u200b fear for her own safety, but that she fears for the \u2064safety of others and that this could have happened to anyone.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not so concerned for myself, I\u2019m \u200cconcerned for \u200dmy friends, I\u2019m concerned for my kids, \u200bI\u2019m concerned for everyone\u2063 walking around downtown,\u201d she said. \u201cI care about people, I care about every \u2064single person in my community, no matter what\u2062 color \u2064flag you wave, who\u2064 you are, where you live,\u2064 and I get angry thinking this could happen to anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Portland has seen a decrease in \u200cthe amount \u200bof police\u200d officers in\u200d recent years. The rise in crime \u200dthroughout the\u2064 city, and \u200bthe city\u2019s push to\u200c \u201cdefund the police\u201d after\u2062 the death of George\u200c Floyd has dropped the number of officers \u200bdown to 802.<\/p>\n<p>The 802 police \u200bofficers face the impossible task of serving \u2064over 640,000 residents, which is around 800 people for every police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Due\u200d to the low number of officers \u2062serving the city, Portlanders have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-doctor-who-was-brutally-attacked-holds-city-accountable\/\" title=\"Portland doctor attacked, seeks justice\">faced increasingly \u2062long \u2063police response times<\/a> in recent years,\u2064 with the \u200caverage \u2062for a high-priority call being \u2062around 23.7 minutes, \u2063which is the\u2062 longest in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Police Lieutenant Nathan Sheppard addressed the situation \u2062in \u2063email with Fox\u2063 News\u200d saying that their staffing is \u201cat historic\u2063 lows.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cOur\u2064 goal is always to help \u2064as\u2062 much as \u2064we\u200d can, \u2063as \u2062quickly\u2063 as we can. \u2063But with\u200d our staffing\u200b being at historic lows, this has become a challenge \u200bfor us,\u201d Sheppard wrote. \u201cAt \u2063the time this\u200b call \u200dcame in, our officers\u2064 were actively on 26 calls throughout\u2062 the city.\u2064 There were 0 free officers and \u2062another 52 calls holding. Our \u2064officers joined the Police Bureau to \u200dhelp people, and when they are unable, \u2063it takes \u200da\u200b toll. We\u2019re continuing\u200b to hire, so there\u2019s definitely hope, and things WILL get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Costantino explained\u200d that the recent push by the city against the police department, \u2064and\u200c the rising crime \u2063rates have shifted the way that she votes.<\/p>\n<p>She \u2064had\u2063 not voted for Jo Ann\u2062 Hardesty, the previous \u200dcity commissioner who had supported defunding the police \u2062in 2020. She also\u2064 said that\u200d during the\u200d governor\u2019s election\u2064 she voted for Republican Christine \u2063Drazan.<\/p>\n<p>Police \u200care asking the public for help in locating the suspect who is described as a \u200dwhite male in his\u2063 20s or 30s.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for \u2063free. Subscribe here. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The latest Trump Indictment may be built on Mike Pence, while Marco Rubio points out the DOJ\u2019s double standard.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s \u200dDepartment of Justice \u2063indicts Former \u2062President Donald J. Trump for a third time with\u200b many questioning \u2062the timing\u2063 of it all<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dov-hikind-longtime-ny-democrat-lawmaker-leaves-the-party\/\" title=\"Dov Hikind, veteran NY Democrat lawmaker, departs party.\">longtime \u200bdemocrat lawmaker<\/a> from New \u200bYork who spent 36\u2064 years in the assembly said he\u2019s leaving the part for the Republican party.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In the second part of \u2063an exclusive \u2063interview, Oversight Committee member Representative Andy Biggs tells One\u200c America News after witnessing Devon Archer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amb-sondland-sues-pompeo-state-department-for-1-8m-in-legal-fees\/\" title=\"Amb. Sondland Sues Pompeo, State Department for .8M in Legal Fees\">closed-door testimony<\/a>,\u200d he \u2062is convinced Joe Biden\u2063 was \u201ctaking a cut\u201d of hunter\u2019s business deals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Apple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-presidential-candidate-vivek-ramaswamy-sues-doj-over-trump-indictment\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy, GOP candidate, sues DOJ for Trump indictment.\">high-yield savings account offered<\/a> by its\u200b partner Goldman Sachs has reached over $10 billion in customer deposits, \u2064the technology\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters)\u200d \u2013 Cognizant Technology Solutions forecast third-quarter \u200brevenue above estimates on Wednesday\u200b as \u200bmore \u2063businesses turn to the\u200d IT \u2063services provider to\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Equinix forecast third-quarter revenue below market estimates\u2063 on Wednesday, a sign\u200c that demand for \u200ddata centers was slowing as businesses\u2026 \u200b <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>By\u2064 Nette Noestlinger, Matthias\u2063 Baehr and\u2063 Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 Worldcoin \u200bwill expand its operations to sign up more users globally\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>doctor in Portland was assaulted and left unconscious on Friday night. The incident occurred in the city, and the doctor had to wait for more than 20 minutes for police assistance. 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