Husband, 33, is left paralyzed after
being hit by stray bullet in New York
while walking to store with new wife
The Sun (UK),
by
Patrick Knox
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/22/2020 11:36:27 AM
A husband who was walking with his new wife to buy toothpaste in New York was hit in the spine by a stray bullet and will likely never walk again. Footage shows Sam Metcalfe, 33, laying on the ground at Flatbush intersection in Brooklyn, seconds after being caught in the crossfire of a gang fight.(Snip) “She told him he didn’t need to come but he wanted to hold the umbrella for her because it was raining and the umbrella was broken. “While crossing an intersection less than five minutes from their building, shots rang out and Sam was hit. “The intended victim
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 8/22/2020 11:40:43 AM (No. 517490)
Life in NYC.
Leave while you can.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 8/22/2020 12:36:25 PM (No. 517543)
At least some black people seemed to want to help. That's good.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 8/22/2020 12:38:14 PM (No. 517544)
#2, both husband and wife are white folks.
The shooter was caught on video, but only his arm is visible out the window of the BMW. The arm appears to be black.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 8/22/2020 12:43:05 PM (No. 517550)
Never fails to baffle me how strong the thuggish mindset is in the inner cities of blue run states. They just do not stop to think about bystanders, they see the target and blast away. Even if babies and small children are on site. Of course in the police interrogation room, they have had time to think about what they did, and most will show remorse. But I wonder if remorse is only because they got caught.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
curious1 8/22/2020 12:52:45 PM (No. 517559)
Given the age and residence, any bets on who they vote for in the next mayoral race, DeBlahBlah or a pubbie?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/22/2020 12:53:58 PM (No. 517563)
I recall walking one night years ago on the Upper East Side from my hotel up Park Avenue to the lovely apartment where there was a party I’d been invited to. Every building had a doorman, and I walked from doorman to doorman, feeling quite safe. Now I would not go to New York City.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 8/22/2020 1:00:54 PM (No. 517568)
#5, I clearly remember when I had the first thoughts just like yours.
It was two or three decades ago, when I still read Time magazine fairly often. A writer went to a prison to interview a man in for life for murdering a (IIRC) 13 year old girl, one of a small crowd waiting at a NYC street corner for the light to change. There was someone who the shooter hated in the crowd, so he opened fire from the back seat of a car, spraying shots into the group. He killed the innocent little girl, wounded others, I forget if he hit his intended victim.
The part of the article that was really a wake up call to me was when the writer asked him "Didn't you feel sorry that you had shot that little girl?" He was dismissive, entirely unimpressed with the question and answered "I didn't know her!". Clearly, to this vicious feral beast, killing strangers is not worth worrying about any more than stepping on an ant.
That was when I first began to grasp the heartless evil which is a sociopath. Anyone who is uncertain of the definition should look it up. Part of the definition is a total lack of any conscience. They absolutely do NOT care if they harm or kill others, there is zero interest in what happens to other people. If you are in their way, they will squash you without hesitation.
Understand this and you will see that being armed when you run into one of them is your only hope. They usually do have some self preservation ideas, or if not, you can just directly make them unable to harm you or your family. Most of us normal, sane, Christian middle class folks don't run into these people much and many who fit this middle class Christian profile are in active denial that such people even exist. Deny them at your peril.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Pearson365 8/22/2020 1:42:45 PM (No. 517617)
Could a Walter Reed or Bethesda military hospital successfully remove the bullet lodged in his spine? Not sure if a civilian could receive treatment in a such a hospital but if a Navy hospital ship can be offered to NYC civilians, why can’t a hospital with war wound experience and rehab be offered? The physicians there have a wealth of experience with horrible injuries. The pandemic of violence erupting in our cities is no less deadly than the Wuhan virus.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mathman 8/22/2020 2:17:08 PM (No. 517657)
Sorry. His life did not matter.
Not a thug. Not dying in police custody.
So he is dead. Big woop.
No one will listen, no one will care.
Just another deader.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/22/2020 3:15:16 PM (No. 517693)
For those believing surgery to remove the bullet is warranted, have a read:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4660489/
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/22/2020 3:17:13 PM (No. 517695)
Re #9, today’s big cities have trauma centers where neurosurgeons and other advanced specialists are able to deal with those who have suffered gunshot wounds and other traumatic injuries. Today’s big cities are war zones.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
KTWO 8/22/2020 3:22:27 PM (No. 517698)
Noticed that BMW has no licence plate. But it does have a paper in the back window which may be a temporary licence. And it seems to be on the wrong side of the street. But perhaps it is a one-way.
I hope that paper can be read. The BMW will be in other photos of the area.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
XCenturion 8/22/2020 3:58:21 PM (No. 517719)
If Bill DeBlasio's half black son was laying on the ground bleeding out after being shot by a terrorist gang member, do you think he'd do anything to stop the violence in NYC or appoint his wife to hold hearings on gun control? I guess black lives really don't matter to New York's mayor after all!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Lazyman 8/22/2020 3:59:10 PM (No. 517720)
The shooter may have earned a speaking spot at the next DNC.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
snapper451 8/22/2020 4:45:33 PM (No. 517751)
DeBlasio must be so proud.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 8/22/2020 6:32:36 PM (No. 517834)
Interesting report, #11, but it looks like the author is not a native English speaker or they really need a competent editor.
The first line in the "Case" portion reads:
"A 38-year-old male farmer was accidentally shot by riffle pistol firearm weapon in the dorsal region of back with no exit wound.
This is interesting because the medical writing seems quite fluent, but outside of the medical parts it seems to fall apart quite a bit, lots of basic grammatical errors. Authors names sound Indian. Seems well researched and medically complete. But not much good news for folks shot in the spine, it doesn't
seem.
A key point:
"A recent study by Bumpass et al. found that the majority of civilian GSWs should be managed nonoperatively, regardless of neurological grade or number of spinal columns injured.
[GSW is gun shot wound].
The general conclusion seems to be to not operate in most cases.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/23/2020 12:40:03 AM (No. 518040)
This is sickeningly sad. Liberalism and leftist progressive judicial malfeasance has destroyed and fear of the rule of law in this barbarian playground. If ever there were two cities in which to establish Martial Law, it would be NYC and Chicago. To those in the former, make like Snake Plissken and Escape from New York.
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Miss Rudy yet ? See why they want to take your guns ? No self defense.
People do what you let them because they suffer no consequence. Start shooting a few and fire up the electric chair and see what happens.
To think they voted for Wilhelm twice. Must be the same people who put Obola in office twice.
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