if you've ever been on the Internet I
mean you here right now you probably
wound up on the comments section of at
least one article about a mass shooting
some other kind of killing spree and
seeing dozens of [ __ ] make comments
like dude if I was there would it
totally stop that guy I totally know
kung fu and I just like knocked the
weapon out of his hand and then break
his necklace been kicking then my mom
would finally love me
my name is Jolla's Ito then one day in
2011 my morning commute was interrupted
by the tail end of a twenty eight hour
long stabbing spree the reason that
spree ended is because I stopped it and
I learned the stabber Maksim Gelman was
already famous across the city I didn't
know any of that though because I'd
gotten up too early to catch the paper
so when an obviously high person
staggered crazily into the train I just
kind of figured morning in New York you
know that creepy guy who I'd later
learned was Gelman started banging on
the door the engineers compartment
ratney and I was sitting right by the
door the only thing separating the
engineer and myself was a wall it turned
out there were two cops on the other
side of the door lion and wait in case
Gelman hopped on this train I found out
later they'd recognized them but they
didn't charge out to stop him instead
they asked him a polite question who are
you I'm the police you're not the police
you'd expect two armed cops to I don't
know maybe do something about a wanted
fugitive spree killer that they were on
the train specifically to arrest but
they stayed put
so Gulman walked up to me whipped out an
8-inch knife and told me ya gone today
then he stabbed me I was in the sort of
situation every man thinks about at
least twice a day suddenly thrust into a
life-or-death situation that required me
to become a badass unfortunately I had
no badass training but I have watched a
lot of MMA and when he brought back his
arm to stab me again I decided to dive
in for a single-leg takedown it should
have looked like this
but in reality I shot into hi and wound
up tackling him by the waist rather than
getting him in the leg so he stabbed me
repeatedly in the skull the good news
for you armchair badasses is that you
can have no idea what you're doing but
still succeed on dumb luck and balls
I equate Gellman by a lot so we went
down despite the power of a knife on his
side so we're both on the ground I'm on
top and he still got his stabbing
machine in hand I tried to grab his
right hand which held the knife with my
left but I missed and he sliced me good
in the thumb I tried to catch him a
second time and failed so he slashed me
again in my left tricep
my third grab was a charm though I
caught his hand and slammed it into the
ground he dropped the knife
once I had impendent was you know dying
of blood loss the cops decided it was
safe enough to arrest Gelman next thing
I remember is a cop tapped me on the
shoulder you can get up now we got him I
thought that was being charitable by the
time I didn't exactly feel argumentative
there was no pain yet just a swarm
feeling from the blood gushing out of me
it was like standing in the shower with
warm water spraying the top of your head
and flowing down the back of your neck
and again when you'd expect the police
to jump to my aid they didn't nothing
even touched me
the only guy to render aid was another
passenger alfred douglas a.k.a napkin
man because he staunch my bleeding
injuries with napkins
I think napkin man probably saved my
life but at this point I'd been stabbed
roughly all the times a person can be
stabbed while remaining conscious and so
I passed out when I eventually came to
in the hospital it was kind of
frustrating to realize that none of the
early coverage mentioned me or napkin
man the police gave all the credit to
the two officers who'd been in a subway
train with me only neither of them
actually even left the booth until I
disarmed Gelman during the grand jury
here and one of the cops testified I
started to come out I opened the door
but I thought Gelman had a gun so I
closed the door and stayed inside I can
see how in a stressful situation you
might mistake a knife for a gun but also
that kind of makes it more impurity if
you mr. cop a policing tonight's the sin
sane drug addled murderer has a gun and
he's sitting on a train bound for Times
Square don't you want to stop him at all
costs
so yeah I decided to sue the NYPD the
first case I brought got dropped so I
acted as my own lawyer for the second
case and finally made it to a judge the
judge said mr. lazette owes version of
the story sounds highly credible and his
version of events rings true but I still
lost the case here's how that was
justified in its original legalese no
direct promises of protection were made
to mr. Lucido nor were there direct
actions taken to protect mr. Lozado
prior to the attack therefore a special
duty did not exist it turns out there
was a major piece of legal precedent in
my way in 2005 the Supreme Court ruled
on Castle Rock V Gonzales in that case a
woman sued the Castle Rock PD after they
failed to respond when she complained
that her estranged husband had violated
a protective order and abducted their
kids he eventually murdered them the
Supreme Court ruled in the police
department's favor it turns out it's
literally not their job to protect
people so to the Internet badasses who
are about to comment on this video and
claim they've totally nailed the
takedown you should make a note of a few
things first my insurance had me in and
out of the hospital in two days and the
hospital didn't give me any AIDS or
hepatitis test after I've been stabbed
with a knife that had stabbed other
people apparently that's not medically
necessary second if you ever get the
chance to confront a dangerous armed
madman
don't trust in the police having it back
don't expect to get the credit and hope
like hell there's another napkin man
waiting in the wings to help you hey
everyone thank you so much for watching
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