The assault of a woman on the New York City subway Thursday morning was prevented from escalating further after a good Samaritan stepped in to confront the attacker.
The woman assaulted was 37-year-old Sam Saia, who was riding the N train through Bensonhurst on her way to work when the man next to her attacked her because she politely asked if she could have some more leg room.
According to Saia, the man sitting next to her on the two-person bench spread his legs wide, crowding her into the side of the train car. When she asked for a little bit of room, the unidentified assailant went off.
"B**ch, you ain't nothing! I've raped white b**ches like you, f**king c**t! You ain't nothing, you f**cking b**ch!" the man yelled, according to Saia.
The man next punched Saia in the mouth, splitting her lip and sending her head banging into the side of the subway car, she said.
That's when Victor Conde, 29, a federal government employee, rushed to the other end of the train car to step in.
“I was mad that he hit her and no one else on the train did anything,” he told the New York Daily News. “There were two guys literally sitting across from her and they just looked away.”
Grabbing the assailant by the wrist, Conde told him he was with the NYPD.
“I got in his face and confronted him. I said ‘What are you doing?'". “I told him I was an off-duty officer to diffuse the situation and he changed his tune. I just think he was a sick individual.”
Conde and Saia agreed that the man should just leave the train at the next stop, which he did.
Police are still searching for the suspect.
You can see the confrontation up top.
Source: nydailynews.com
