Portland physician struck in face by metallic bottle in unprovoked assault as she holds metropolis accountable

An Oregon physician was left bloodied and unconscious when she was randomly attacked and compelled to attend over 20 minutes for police on a Portland avenue on July 28.

Mary Costantino, an Interventional Radiologist, had left a bar round 10:50 p.m with a buddy when the unidentified attacker approached the pair and launched an aluminum bottle on the left aspect of her face, in line with surveillance footage.

“It occurred actually quick, type of out of nowhere,” Costantino told Fox News. “He simply threw an aluminum water bottle and it hit my face. It was hurled fairly arduous and it simply obtained me, simply knocked me proper within the head.”

Costantino couldn’t keep in mind what occurred, however knew she was on the bottom bleeding and known as 911 considering she was going to die.

“I believed we had been nonetheless being form of attacked a way and so I managed to name 911. I used to be very calm, however I used to be additionally very certain I used to be going to die,” Costantino added. “In my head, I used to be like ‘I’m gonna attempt to simply verbalize a report of what was occurring so there’s some file of how I died.”

She informed the outlet she was compelled to attend over 20 minutes for police to answer the realm close to Southwest seventeenth Avenue and Southwest Yamhill Road, a neighborhood within the downtown a part of the town, a number of blocks from the Willamette River.

Constantino, who mentioned she wasn’t critically damage, sported a black eye, a lower on her nostril and a busted lip in images taken following the assault.

One picture from the sidewalk reveals the dazed physician holding up a few napkins to her face as she sits subsequent to a pool of her blood.

She mentioned she didn’t really feel a lot ache on the time of the assault, however knew she was bleeding.

Costantino doesn’t blame the police for any a part of the incident however as a substitute needs to carry everybody else liable.

“I don’t maintain the police accountable for this in any respect, I maintain our metropolis accountable for defunding the police and making it (that) we’re on this scenario the place we don’t have sufficient police pressure to guard our residents, and we did this to ourselves,” Costantino mentioned.

“If we don’t have cops to come back to the aspect of someone who’s below assault, then we’re all on our personal.”

Police describe the suspect as a white male in his 20s-30s.

Costantino says she was grateful for her 6’7″ buddy that “aggressively yelled” on the attacker who tried approaching her whereas she was handed out.

The mom of two isn’t too fearful about her personal security however fears this might occur to anybody.

“I’m not so involved for myself, I’m involved for my associates, I’m involved for my youngsters, I’m involved for everybody strolling round downtown,” she mentioned.

“I care about folks, I care about each single individual in my group, it doesn’t matter what shade flag you wave who you’re the place you reside, and I get offended considering this might occur to anyone,” Costantino concluded.

There are at present 802 sworn officers in the Portland Police Department serving roughly 641,160 folks, practically 800 residents per one officer, in comparison with the NYPD’s 33,528 uniformed officers patrolling a metropolis of 8,804,190 or about 262 residents per officer.

Portland has seen a decrease in police staffing through the years, between the rise in crime and the town’s push to “defund the police” following the 2020 dying of George Floyd, with 1001 officers on the pressure in 2019, 199 lower than in 2023.