For those of you that have seen the now viral video of Chrissy Lee Polis, getting beaten by two women outside a Baltimore area McDonald's ladies room, it's apparent that no one in the restaurant tried to save her. The manager made a vain attempt to break up the attack. Other employees can be heard laughing and practically cheering the assailants on. The employee that took the video even went so far as to tell the attackers to run, before the police showed up.
No one seemed to be on this young woman's side, except for Vicky L. Thoms. She is the lady in white that steps in at about the 2:00 mark to try to protect Ms. Polis. If you watch the video closely, you can even see Polis wrap her arm around Thoms' leg, in a desperate attempt to get away. But Thoms was out numbered and out matched. She was punched, "the way someone would punch a man", according to Thoms, and shoved to the ground.
No one seemed to be on this young woman's side, except for Vicky L. Thoms. She is the lady in white that steps in at about the 2:00 mark to try to protect Ms. Polis. If you watch the video closely, you can even see Polis wrap her arm around Thoms' leg, in a desperate attempt to get away. But Thoms was out numbered and out matched. She was punched, "the way someone would punch a man", according to Thoms, and shoved to the ground.
"Interviewed in her home Monday by The Baltimore Sun, Thoms said she had stepped in because she feared the assault on Polis might be fatal. "I thought, 'They're going to kill her,' " Thoms recalled, stressing that she is not a heroine and would have helped anyone, despite her concern about aggravating a back injury. I couldn't take it any more," Thoms said, describing her horror as she watched the beating for about two minutes.
She also said she had no idea the victim was transgendered, but added that it would not have mattered. "It didn't matter if it was a pig laying there being beaten," she went on, tearfully.
"I still would have helped. I knew she was clinging on to her life. I just keep seeing it over and over again."
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