LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 12: Kim Glass attends Maxim Electric Nights presented by DIRECTV at City Market on February 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images)
<p>Olympic medal-winning volleyball player Kim Glass was nearly blinded after <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/north-carolina-mother-mauled-to-death-by-pit-bulls-she-was-dog-sitting-two-days-after-family-warned-her-of-dogs/">a homeless man attacked her</a> with a metal pipe in Los Angeles, according to video posted to her <strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18206780077090328/?hl=en">Instagram</a></strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18206780077090328/?hl=en"><strong> Stories</strong>,</a> in a city where critics say a &#8220;soft-on-crime&#8221; district attorney is to blame.</p>
<p>In the video, the 37-year-old Glass can be seen sporting a massive black eye, which is swollen shut alongside what appears to be a bruised nose, as she recounts the harrowing story.</p>
<p>The 2008 silver medalist revealed that she thought she might have been blinded in her injured eye due to the severity of the attack but still kept a sense of humor about it somehow, describing herself as &#8220;ET&#8221; due to the massive amounts of swelling on the side of her face.</p>
<blockquote><p>“He had something in his hand,” Glass said of the homeless man who “just ran up.&#8221; &#8221;</p>
<p>And he just looked at me with some pretty hateful eyes,” she recalled.</p>
<p>“I do have multiple fractures.</p>
<p>Yes, I look like ET.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">LAPD Says A Suspect Is In Custody</h3>
<p>The LAPD confirmed to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEHrzSzaR-E"><strong>Good Day LA</strong></a> that a suspect has been arrested and is currently still in custody in relation to the attack, however no name was publicly available as of Monday afternoon.</p>
<p>Glass said other people eventually held the man down until police arrived, with police adding that he had flung a large metal bolt at her face just prior.</p>
<blockquote><p>“As I turned to tell my friend, ‘I think something’s wrong with him and I think he’s going to hit the car’ — before I knew it, a big metal bolt-like pipe hit me,” she said.</p>
<p>“It happened so fast. He literally flung it from the street,” said the retired volleyball player, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a part of Team USA.</p>
<p>“It kinda took me down and out,” she added, detailing how other people nearby “got him and held him down until the cops came.”</p></blockquote>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">Attack Comes Amidst Criticisms of &#8220;Soft-On-Crime&#8221; LA District Attorney</h3>
<p>The attack on Glass comes amidst criticisms of the soft-on-crime Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon. Last week, activists taking part in a campaign to recall Gascon delivered 717,000 petition signatures in support of the effort to the county last Wednesday, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/22/el-monte-votes-no-confidence-against-la-da-george-gascon/"><strong>New York Post</strong></a>.</p>
<figure id="attachment_93267" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-93267" style="width: 1014px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-full wp-image-93267" src="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-11-at-12.14.42-PM.png" alt="" width="1014" height="614" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-93267" class="wp-caption-text">(Courtesy of Kim Glass Instagram Stories)</figcaption></figure>
<p>The controversial top prosecutor has been plagued with accusations of being soft on crime in a city with growing and troubling crime statistics, including a rule against seeking the death penalty, a ban on transferring juvenile defendants to adult court, as well as prohibitions on filing sentencing enhancements in most cases.</p>
<p>Gascon’s critics argue his directives have undermined the criminal justice system and contributed to rising crime rates in LA County.</p>
<p>The embattled DA has most recently made headlines after the deaths of two El Monte police officers, with critics blaming Gascon for allowing William Flores, a man with a lengthy criminal record, out on probation at the time of the fatal shootings.</p>
<p>City officials only recently started cleaning up &#8220;dangerous&#8221; homeless encampments in Venice Beach, with the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-07-02/push-to-clear-camps-from-venice-beach-gears-up"><strong>Los Angeles Times</strong></a> reporting workers began phase one of the process, which involved trying to convince the homeless population to relocate to shelters, according to the outlet.</p>
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