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Bianca Palomera

As is usual on Sunday, I present someone who we can and should look up to. This week’s hero is Bianca Palomera, was working her job as an assistant manager of a Habit Burger in Antioch, California. On the afternoon of 11/12/22, she noticed a man in the restaurant bullying a special-needs teen, and she spoke up.

From KTVU-TV:

“I hear the threats going, him having a problem, saying ‘who are you looking at, stop looking that way,'” Palomera recounted.

What to do? What would you do? What did Bianca do?

So she stood up for the boy and confronted his tormenter.

“‘Hey, you know, what you’re doing is wrong. It’s not right at all. He’s special needs. He doesn’t know what he’s doing,'” Palomera recalled telling him.

Her confrontation didn’t back the man down; instead he escalated things.

Surveillance video shows the much larger man getting right in Palomera’s face. He yelled slurs at her. She was seen jawing back at him.

Then he landed a brutal punch to her left cheek.

“I didn’t expect him to punch me at all,” Palomera recalled.

She briefly slumped on a chair then stood up and went after the attacker — but he swung harder and hit her apparently in the head.

Palomera believes that second punch is the one that destroyed her eye!

“I just remember grabbing my eye. I thought I was crying at first, but then after I saw that I had blood dripping down my shirt, you know, down my cheek.”

Doctors performed emergency surgery on her eye but couldn’t save it.

“Sometimes I think it’s all like a nightmare and try to open my eye, but regardless, I can’t see anything,” 

Even after getting punched in the head and losing her right eye, Bianca Palomera told KTVU-TV she wouldn’t undo standing up against a man she saw bullying a special-needs boy that weekend.

“Deep down, there will always be a little regret, but I wouldn’t take it back,” the 19 year old added. “At the end of the day, if you won’t do it, nobody else will. I felt like I had to step in.”

A true hero! Sticking up for a special needs teen, and paying a severe price. Again I ask, “What would you do?”

12/4/22

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