Pearl - September 28, 2025


Modern Women Are Getting Punched In The Face At Alarming Rates


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Length

10 minutes

Words per minute

170.65897

Word count

1,793

Sentence count

161

Harmful content

Misogyny

11

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Toxicity

40

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Hate speech

7

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Summary

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In this episode, we re reacting to women getting punched in the face on the streets of major cities across the U.S. Today, a woman named Kathy Miles is speaking out about a recent attack she suffered in New York City.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You could have women getting punched in the face, and they will still vote Democrat for abortion. 1.00
00:00:07.080 They're like, eh. 0.99
00:00:08.560 What up, guys?
00:00:09.440 Welcome to my reaction series. 0.83
00:00:11.380 Today, we're reacting to modern women getting punched in the face. 1.00
00:00:16.060 Modern women are single and vulnerable. 1.00
00:00:18.320 They don't need a man, and the protection that comes along with being a man.
00:00:21.960 There are so many single women in major cities that end up getting punched in the face. 1.00
00:00:26.300 Is it okay that this is happening?
00:00:27.840 Well, okay, obviously not, obviously not, but this is a byproduct of women being single 1.00
00:00:34.880 and not under a man's protection and covering.
00:00:37.300 Let's look at some of the women getting punched in the face. 1.00
00:00:42.280 Oh, before you leave, can you turn that document into a PDF for me?
00:00:45.960 Thanks.
00:00:46.860 Today, she's still suffering the consequences of that random attack,
00:00:50.640 but it is what she found out about the person who prosecutors say did it that has led her to speak out.
00:00:57.840 He hit me with such force.
00:00:59.500 Sitting at home in Lake Villa today, Kathy Miles admits the last thing she remembers before her attack on August 19th
00:01:07.540 is walking past Block 37 in the loop on the way to the Union Station.
00:01:12.180 I woke up and my coworker was standing above me saying,
00:01:17.760 you're okay, we're in the hospital, you've been assaulted.
00:01:21.560 She then passed out again.
00:01:23.660 The next thing I remember is my daughter, Deanna, saying, hi, mama, I'm here, you're okay.
00:01:30.540 And while she doesn't remember what happened, a colleague who was walking with her at the time told her this.
00:01:36.560 She had said this man came in between the two of us, shoved us apart, and then hit me in the face.
00:01:44.260 That punch left Miles with several broken bones in her face, as well as a concussion.
00:01:49.780 According to police, she was assaulted by 32-year-old William Livingston.
00:01:53.620 Of course, that's what he looks like.
00:01:56.720 I'm not going to say it, but of course.
00:01:59.000 A record search produced 13 mugshots of Livingston going back to...
00:02:04.080 How do these guys keep getting out of jail?
00:02:05.960 I mean, 13 times they couldn't lock him up, not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight, not nine, not 10, not 11, not 12, but 13 times.
00:02:20.140 And the crazy thing is, women vote for this. 1.00
00:02:23.880 We keep voting to get beat up in public.
00:02:27.000 It's like, really?
00:02:27.700 In 2012, a large number of those arrests for aggravated assault and battery of both women and police officers, something Miles found out after the fact.
00:02:38.660 Like, what is enough?
00:02:40.800 You know, what does someone have to do where he's going to be?
00:02:44.660 They're going to be held accountable.
00:02:46.040 According to online records, Livingston's history of random acts of violence against women goes back eight years.
00:02:52.920 In 2017, he was accused of randomly attacking two women months apart.
00:02:58.880 Both cases were dropped.
00:03:00.760 In 2022, Livingston was sentenced to five years in prison after prosecutors said he punched and attempted to rob four women within 20 minutes in the loop.
00:03:11.420 And yet, just 14 months later, in 2023, while on parole, Livingston was arrested for hitting a woman in the face on North Michigan Avenue.
00:03:21.340 And in 2024, he was sentenced to 100 days in prison after punching a 15-year-old girl, also on North Michigan Avenue.
00:03:31.820 I'm not going to let someone speak for me.
00:03:34.020 I need to speak for myself.
00:03:35.620 I need to say something.
00:03:37.520 All right, let's see what's next. 0.90
00:03:39.300 Punched in the face on the streets in New York City. 0.69
00:03:42.160 Let's talk about it.
00:03:43.080 It's my one-year punch-iversary, so let's do a story time.
00:03:47.000 This happened last year.
00:03:48.320 So, at this point, I've been living in New York City for five years.
00:03:51.980 And in those five years, I never felt unsafe walking down the street, especially not during the day.
00:03:57.660 I was in my unemployed era.
00:03:59.800 So, me and my friend had...
00:04:01.260 We always call elves in our lives era.
00:04:05.100 I'm in my unemployed era.
00:04:09.280 You're just unemployed.
00:04:10.420 It's not an era.
00:04:11.380 You don't have a job, you know.
00:04:13.420 On to the nail salon to get mani-pedis.
00:04:15.360 This was my usual nail salon, and it was in the Lower East Side on Avenue C and, I think, 6th Street.
00:04:21.540 It was an area...
00:04:22.500 I bet she voted for it.
00:04:23.740 I always felt very comfortable in because I lived a few blocks away.
00:04:27.820 So, we're walking out of the salon, and I'm wearing my little Crocs because I just had a pedicure.
00:04:31.980 And as we were crossing the street, out of the corner of my eye, I just see a fist flying towards my head.
00:04:38.940 And when I say I got punched, he connected. 0.97
00:04:41.940 He punched the f*** out of me. 0.97
00:04:43.720 This man punched me out my Crocs. 0.99
00:04:45.800 And the scariest part was that he didn't say anything to me.
00:04:49.060 He just saw me, punched me, and then walked away.
00:04:52.020 And that was the part that really made me mad.
00:04:53.880 Because, like, you're not even going to run.
00:04:55.220 So, me and my friend scream and run away.
00:04:57.500 And bystanders were, like, asking me if I was okay. 0.96
00:05:00.780 That's how I knew some crazy s*** had gone down. 0.63
00:05:03.360 Because people were checking on me. 0.96
00:05:04.700 And I remember I turned to my friend, and I asked her, I said, did he just punch me?
00:05:10.380 I was, like, in shock.
00:05:11.980 So, I took a picture of him, like, walking away.
00:05:14.760 And then I immediately called my mom.
00:05:16.800 Because she had been visiting me, and I didn't know if she was still at my apartment or not.
00:05:20.320 So, she had already left, but she immediately turns around.
00:05:22.900 She was so pissed that I called her before I called the police. 1.00
00:05:25.440 But honestly, what were the police even going to do?
00:05:27.400 But I went to the ER.
00:05:28.760 They were, like, okay, you might have a concussion.
00:05:31.340 I was, like, baby, I've had concussions.
00:05:33.240 I know what a concussion feels like.
00:05:34.540 This is not bad.
00:05:35.300 So, physically, I was perfectly fine.
00:05:37.040 I was a little sore.
00:05:37.880 But emotionally, I was honestly kind of traumatized.
00:05:40.480 And I think the scariest part was that I lived there.
00:05:43.240 That was a block in a neighborhood that I had felt comfortable in my entire time living in the city.
00:05:48.960 And then suddenly, it just became very unsafe.
00:05:51.160 So, I've never been back to that nail salon.
00:05:53.660 Which is a shame, because they were so cheap.
00:05:55.800 It honestly really changed everything.
00:05:57.780 I mean, after that, for a few months, at least, I kind of stopped walking anywhere.
00:06:02.480 And I think the scariest part was the fact that he didn't say anything to me.
00:06:05.540 He just saw me and decided to fnia.
00:06:07.700 There was no confrontation.
00:06:08.900 There was no back and forth.
00:06:09.820 There was nothing I could have done to avoid this.
00:06:11.800 Every time I tell this story, everyone's always like,
00:06:13.960 Oh my gosh, I can't believe that happened to you.
00:06:15.880 But I can. 1.00
00:06:16.720 Like, this type of shit just happens to me. 0.99
00:06:18.820 Like, my life is... 1.00
00:06:21.820 They keep voting.
00:06:24.460 Keep voting for this.
00:06:25.760 All right, let's see.
00:06:28.500 Oh, wait, hold on.
00:06:30.940 Turns out...
00:06:32.000 Yeah, so, people wanted a story time.
00:06:35.820 Turns out, if a grown man punches you in the face as hard as you possibly can, 0.68
00:06:41.160 he could almost kill you.
00:06:42.220 I didn't take it very well. 0.69
00:06:46.020 My nose is broken.
00:06:48.580 Like, the tip is totally numb.
00:06:50.740 There's a lot of abrasions here.
00:06:52.280 I'm not really sure how that came about.
00:06:56.200 Eye is super blacked out.
00:06:57.880 I could barely open it for a couple days.
00:07:00.340 There's fractures in my orbital bone.
00:07:04.500 My ear is full of blood.
00:07:07.660 I can't hear out of it.
00:07:09.020 We're not sure if the drum is perforated, the bones are broken,
00:07:14.260 or if it's just full of blood from the concussion,
00:07:18.200 because I also have a bunch of fractures in the back of my skull.
00:07:21.840 I can kind of see it.
00:07:24.320 There's a bruise, and it kind of extends all the way up under my hairline
00:07:29.600 from where I saw my head on the ground. 0.72
00:07:32.760 You're not so crazy.
00:07:33.600 I bet she'll still vote Democrat. 1.00
00:07:35.000 You could have women getting punched in the face, 1.00
00:07:40.240 and they will still vote Democrat for abortion. 0.99
00:07:43.420 They're like, eh, yeah.
00:07:47.500 I could go on birth control.
00:07:50.140 Yeah, I guess my safety is important, 1.00
00:07:52.160 but my body, my choice, evil men, let me kill my kids. 1.00
00:07:57.300 That's usually how it goes. 1.00
00:07:58.060 And there's bleeding in my brain, so it's nice.
00:08:06.660 Yeah, I was trying to break up a fight.
00:08:13.080 Oh, well, okay.
00:08:14.360 She kind of deserved it.
00:08:15.500 I mean, nobody deserves it,
00:08:17.140 but why would you try to break up a fight between grown men? 1.00
00:08:21.680 That's just idiotic. 1.00
00:08:23.040 And, of course, you know, this guy being a piece of shit 1.00
00:08:27.220 turned around to the person trying to mediate the situation 1.00
00:08:31.460 and was like, I'm going to punch you. 0.99
00:08:33.540 Yeah, this is delusion. 0.99
00:08:34.860 Delusion, because women think they can mediate two grown men fighting. 1.00
00:08:39.280 Hard as humanly fucking possible. 0.99
00:08:42.600 So I've been in the hospital for three days. 1.00
00:08:44.280 Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 1.00
00:08:46.480 If I see a fight, I'm just getting out of the way. 1.00
00:08:49.540 Yes.
00:08:53.040 I'm going to have symptoms for up to a year.
00:08:58.020 Like, my life is going to be different for, like, a year.
00:09:02.620 And the cops released him after, like, less than 24 hours,
00:09:06.440 because, like, who cares, I guess.
00:09:08.780 I don't know.
00:09:12.380 My friends brought me, you know,
00:09:17.020 squishy-ass latte.
00:09:19.280 It's really nice.
00:09:20.340 I got some raspberries.
00:09:25.520 I have a severe concussion.
00:09:30.600 Not feeling very hot girl summer right now.
00:09:35.660 Got most of my things returned to me,
00:09:37.680 but my glasses got punched into oblivion,
00:09:40.200 so I can't really see.
00:09:44.000 Which is okay, because I'm just in a hotel room
00:09:46.240 and I can't see anything anyway.
00:09:51.260 I don't know what my takeaway from this is.
00:09:54.060 Did you learn a lesson?
00:09:55.500 Did you learn a lesson?
00:09:56.500 Break up fights if you're sure that the aggressor 1.00
00:09:59.720 is enough of a piece of shit 1.00
00:10:01.000 that he will, like, just straight up punch you in the face. 1.00
00:10:04.460 Still no accountability. 0.98
00:10:06.080 She still blames them.
00:10:07.660 Which I understand,
00:10:08.620 but you can't put yourself in situations
00:10:11.220 with crazy people and be shocked they do crazy things. 0.92
00:10:14.080 All right, guys, so women are getting punched in the face now. 1.00
00:10:17.720 I guess it serves us right.
00:10:19.160 So anyways, guys,
00:10:20.620 let me know what you think in the comments.
00:10:22.280 Make sure you like the video.
00:10:23.440 Do you know anybody that's been assaulted?
00:10:25.720 Be from a crazy person on the street.
00:10:27.840 Let me know in the comments, like the video,
00:10:29.280 and I'll see you next time.