In May 2021, Daniella Means was walking her dog in Los Angeles when a man holding a hammer approached and demanded her bag and phone. When Means refused, he dealt a blow to her head. She went down hard, blood gushing from her face.
โI thought I had gone blind. I thought I had brain damage,โ she recalls.
The incident left her shattered, physically โ her eye socket and nose were broken โ and mentally.
โComing out of it, I was scared to walk around on my own. I was driving a kilometre from my…