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A manspreading maniac punched a 27-year-old teacher in the face after she sat down near him on a Bronx subway train. DCPI<\/p>\nA manspreading maniac punched a 27-year-old New York City teacher in the face simply because she sat near him on a Bronx subway train \u2014 leaving her concussed and terrified to ride the rails again.<\/p>\n
The Manhattan public school teacher who hails from the Bronx and wished not to be identified was on board a southbound 5 train around 7 a.m. on Wednesday when the assault unfolded, she told The Post.<\/p>\n
She said she just wanted to sit down during her morning commute and noticed the man \u201cwas taking up enough space for two people.\u201d<\/p>\n
A woman sitting next to him gave her some space to sit down, so she took a seat, but the manspreading straphanger began verbally accosting her.<\/p>\n
A manspreading maniac punched a 27-year-old teacher in the face after she sat down near him on a Bronx subway train. DCPI<\/p>\n
\u201cHe kept accusing me that I was trying to squeeze myself in as the train kept moving, and I was just telling him, like, I\u2019m not doing anything, because I was literally not even moving. I\u2019m respecting the fact that you already did not want to give me space,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
He then shoved the woman on top of the other straphanger, who graciously made space for her, and brazenly punched the educator in the face, according to the victim and cops. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was like, \u2018You think you\u2019re a woman and that I can\u2019t hit you? I will break your jaw.\u2019 Like, continuously, he kept saying that he\u2019ll break my jaw,\u201d the woman terrifyingly recounted.<\/p>\n
The victim said her adrenaline kicked in and she fought back. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo after he punched me, you know, self-defense just kicked in. Like I looked at him and I swung right back, because, like, I\u2019m, you know, you just hit me for no reason at this point, just because I\u2019m sitting down.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cvery hard\u201d punch left the teacher \u201cvery close to blacking out,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAt that point, I was literally stuck there with the dude that kept saying that he\u2019s gonna break my jaw \u2026 Over a seat? Seriously? Like, come on. It\u2019s 7 in the morning. Nobody pays $2.90 for that,\u201d she recalled. <\/p>\n
At that point, another commuter stuck up for the woman and told the fist-wielding man, decrying, \u201cYo, it\u2019s just a seat. Like, it\u2019s not that serious\u201d \u2014 sparking him to threateningly rant about how he wasn\u2019t afraid to go to jail again, according to the teacher\u2019s account.<\/p>\n
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The \u201cvery hard\u201d punch left the teacher \u201cvery close to blacking out,\u201d she said. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
A male rider pulled the educator away from the aggressor, putting an end to the violent altercation. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for a gentleman sliding me out from under him. You know, who knows if that dude would have really broken my jaw.\u201d<\/p>\n
She got off at the East 86 Street and Lexington Avenue subway station, while the man remained on board, cops said. <\/p>\n
After the attack, the woman was in shock and went to her job as usual, but began to experience the immense physical and emotional pain of the encounter after the \u201cmoment of shock\u201d broke, she said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI had to call my principal, tell her everything. And that\u2019s when the moment of shock, I guess, broke, because I literally broke down crying right then and there,\u201d the woman recalled. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then they had to take me to the hospital, and that\u2019s when I started feeling like my head started hurting. My head was pounding, and then when they took me to the hospital, they ended up saying I got a concussion from how hard he hit me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman said she is now terrified to take her normal commute on the subway and has had to shell out a \u201cwhole bunch of money\u201d to pay for Ubers.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I\u2019m terrified to ride the train, and then every single time I talk about it, I gotta fight back the tears of crying out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, I understand what people say, it\u2019s not safe on the train.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said the NYPD has been helpful and a detective has been \u201cin non-stop contact\u201d with her since the assault.<\/p>\n
Police have said that the man \u2014 who is yet to be nabbed \u2014 was last seen wearing a black jacket, black pants, and black boots.<\/p>\n
The NYPD has also released an image of the bearded man, wearing a zipped-up hooded sweatshirt. <\/p>\n
The teacher added that she doesn\u2019t blame the city \u2014 but rather some \u201cinconsiderate\u201d and violent straphangers who ride the subway. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re [the city] providing the seats. But now it\u2019s the people in New York City that are being selfish, that are being inconsiderate, and being rude and disgusting,\u201d she said<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could have easily said, \u2018Excuse me, man, you don\u2019t fit here. I\u2019m not moving my legs\u2019 or something. Like, you just had to escalate to violence. You just have to escalate to punching somebody in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLike, unfortunately, that\u2019s the disgusting society that we have in the Bronx. That\u2019s the reason why everybody sees the Bronx and it\u2019s like, \u2018Eww, the Bronx.\u2019 Because of people like that,\u201d the woman added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A manspreading maniac punched a 27-year-old New York City teacher in the face simply because she sat near…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":450538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12937,4219,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,28715,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-450537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-assaults","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-subways","19":"tag-the-bronx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115728294711332482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}