Woman who lost eye in brutal NYC subway attack blasts AOC's stance against cops getting raises

A woman who lost an eye in a brutal New York City subway attack last year blasted far-left U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stance against cops getting raises, saying that officials must "put safety first."

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During an interview with "The Daily Show," Cortez criticized New York City Mayor Eric Adams giving NYPD officers a raise, their first since 2017, the New York Post reported.

"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,” the congresswoman said.

Well, Elizabeth Gomes begs to differ with her.

A homeless man — 41-year-old Waheed Foster, who sported a lengthy arrest record for physical violence — allegedly beat Gomes up in a Queens subway station last Sept. 20. Foster was indicted for the horrific attack, which was caught on surveillance video, Fox News said.

"It's because of lack of safety, lack of not having the right people there around us to take care of us when we need them," Gomes said on "Fox & Friends" Thursday in regard to victims of New York City crime. "At that moment when I was running up the train station, I wasn't thinking about calling up a teacher or calling a lifeguard for a pool. I was thinking about calling the police."

Gomes added to Fox News that additional funding should be allocated to both teachers and police officers — but public safety is more important.

"We need both, but safety [does] come first," Gomes said, according to the cable network. "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] with police officers."

She added, "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," Fox News added.

Gomes also argued her alleged attacker shouldn't have been out of jail in the first place due to his lengthy, violent criminal record.

"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."

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