Senate aide who survived brutal DC stabbing says crime fight ‘worthwhile’

Phillip Todd was lying on the public street and needed someone to pray for him.

At the time, 26-year-old Senate staff had just been attacked for random violence, which was in 2023 Washington, DC At that moment, he was filled with fear and needed help from higher powers.

It turns out that this higher power is the effort of the caregiver to keep him alive.

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Todd told Fox News Numbers that the first thing that came to my mind was, ‘Okay, I need to pray. Maybe I can’t pray, but someone needs to pray for it. ‘ “So, I asked the caregiver to pray for me. He said, ‘Are you a Christian? Like, what are you?’ I said, “Yes, I am a Christian.” ”

“He’s gone, ‘Well, I’m an atheist’,” Todd continued. “I said, ‘Good. You can pray for me.’ He is kind and obliged.”

The incident, on H Street, Washington, D.C., could be a perfect flash point for a political surgeon looking for anecdotes about crime in the region – using it as a Kudger who is a democratic policy in the nation’s capital.

Todd works for the Senate. Rand Paulr-ky. , in one of the worst crime years Washington has experienced in the last three decades, was attacked in broad daylight.

After all, his distance to become statistics is millimeters. He was stabbed at least four times, and the knife pierced the skull, almost severing his ears, passing through the diaphragm, and approaching his heart dangerously.

Even now, the Trump administration is pushing to combat crime in Washington, D.C., which has inspired allegations of praise for Democrats and Republicans who still work on the hills, Todd, a Republican who has been working politically and keeps politically in him, and what happened to him.

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But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t struggled with this balance for years. Todd, a self-described “political creature,” said political ideas about how his story was used to light up Washington’s crimes bounced in his mind.

But his focus is on the deeper connections he has found His faithhe was already on a journey when his attacker Glynn Neal attacked him from the blue.

“The story of my obligation to me or my obligation to me is to focus on God’s goodness and focus on obedience to God and lead to this story,” he said. “Maybe politics came later, but I think in my opinion, anyone who has experienced something like this has two obligations, and I think it’s a personal obligation, a social obligation.”

Nevertheless, lawmakers and Washington residents are still fighting the president Donald Trump’s Decide the Federation Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)and flooded the streets of the area with federal law enforcement and the National Guard to fight crime.

Asked about his thoughts about the troops walking down the street, Todd said he wasn’t sure what the right solution to crime in the area was, but he thought “it was a problem worth solving.”

“I think I told some of my friends that I didn’t know the city’s troops were the best way to go. Maybe, maybe not. But I do think that the attitude to try to solve this problem is what people need, and it’s worth it.”

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One of the most striking things about Todd is that he has the ability to joke about piercing the knife through the skull and piercing the membranes of the surrounding brain.

Now he has a titanium plate, further affirming his friends’ firm belief that he is mindful, and that it has not introduced metal detectors at the airport.

However, he suffered a painful situation at the hands of Neal, who was released from prison for more than a decade just days before the attack and was found to be mentally incompetent in June with the trial.

But it was his decision to forgive Neil while still recovering in the hospital bed, and he wondered if he would have done that if his entire ability was there. Still, it was his company and praise for his ability to see this situation in a relaxed way.

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“I think the chance of redemption in this particular story seems to me that maybe it will change over time, not necessarily politics, but more about it being a very shocking crime,” he said. “It was a big mistake for me.”

“It is perfectly understandable to have a lot of desire to see retribution,” Todd continued. “However, in that moment, indoctrinated–for God gave me the power of forgiveness, and God saved me from death–how could also lead others to life full of meaning, satisfaction, salvation, difficult judgment and situations.”