Manspreading maniac punches NYC public school teacher in the face for simply sitting on subway
A 27‑year‑old teacher from the Bronx was on a southbound 5‑train at about 7 a.m. Wednesday when a man who was spreading his legs across two seats started harassing her.
The teacher simply wanted to sit and, when a woman next to him stepped aside, she took the spot. The stranger began to verbalize his frustration, saying “He kept accusing me that I was trying to squeeze myself in as the train kept moving, and I was just telling him, like, I’m not doing anything, because I was literally not even moving.”
The man shoved the teacher onto the adjacent seat and, according to witnesses, punched her in the face. She recalled the attacker yelling, “You think you’re a woman and that I can’t hit you? I will break your jaw,” repeating that threat several times.
Her adrenaline kicked in and she struck back, saying, “I looked at him and I swung right back, because, like, I’m, you know, you just hit me for no reason at this point, just because I’m sitting down.” The blow was described as “very hard,” leaving her “very close to blacking out.”
A fellow passenger intervened, pulling the teacher away from the aggressor and breaking up the assault. She then got off at the East 86 Street and Lexington Avenue station while the attacker remained on the train, according to police.
After the incident, the teacher experienced a “moment of shock” that broke, leading her to call her principal and later be taken to a hospital, where she was diagnosed with a concussion from the punch.
The teacher now finds it terrifying to take her regular subway commute, ending up paying for Ubers instead. She said, “Honestly, I’m terrified to ride the train, and then every single time I talk about it, I gotta fight back the tears of crying out.
Now, I understand what people say, it’s not safe on the train.” The NYPD has kept her in constant contact, and they released a photo of the suspect—a bearded man in a hooded sweatshirt, black jacket, pants, and boots.
She doesn’t blame the city but rather “inconsiderate” and “violent straphangers” for the incident, saying, “They’re the city providing the seats. But now it’s the people in New York City that are being selfish, that are being inconsiderate, and being rude and disgusting.”
She added, “You could have easily said, ‘Excuse me, man, you don’t fit here. I’m not moving my legs’ or something. Like, you just had to escalate to violence. You just have to escalate to punching somebody in the face.”
She went on to lament, “Like, unfortunately, that’s the disgusting society that we have in the Bronx. That’s the reason why everybody sees the Bronx and it’s like, ‘Eww, the Bronx.’ Because of people like that.”
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