"Sliwa felt the bullets hit him in his groin and legs. Somehow, Sliwa, who was, in his words, holding the gun back with his hand to "avoid the head shot," managed to use the back seat "like a trampoline," and dove through the car's open window. He made it about halfway out; the attackers rammed him into another car, and then shot him again, in the back."
"Recently, I asked Sliwa, the Republican nominee for mayor, who is polling a distant third and has been constantly urged to drop his bid, whether he sees any parallels between that day in the taxi and the mayoral race. "Yeah," he told me. "I'm defiant. I'm, like, 'No.' And they can't take no for an answer." Sliwa, who is best-known as the founder of the subway-vigilante group the Guardian Angels, previously ran for mayor, in 2021, and lost to Eric Adams by nearly forty points."
Curtis Sliwa survived a 1992 taxi shooting in which a gunman fired from the front seat, striking his groin, legs, and later his back as attackers rammed him. Sliwa described holding the gun back to avoid a head shot and using the back seat "like a trampoline" to dive out the window. Sliwa founded the Guardian Angels and is the Republican nominee for New York City mayor, currently polling a distant third and facing pressure to withdraw from figures including Donald Trump and John Catsimatidis. Sliwa says he refused seven bribe offers totaling ten million dollars to step aside. Opponents believe consolidating votes behind Andrew Cuomo could defeat Zohran Mamdani.
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