there's not that goddamn many people being wrongly arrested for robbery using a dangerous

instrument assault with intent to cause you he was in the wrong place at the wrong time

from the smallest room in New York City that is a viral spreading opportunity

comes a show that gives you a reason to live a lucky 28 year old woman fended off an unhinged

attacker with a broom and wet floor sign at a Brooklyn subway station before video caught him shoving on shoving her onto the tracks. Oh my goodness, the harrowing encounter

unfolded Wednesday on the northbound three and four platform at the Utica Avenue Eastern

Parkway Station. That's too many words for a station where the crazed man later identified

as 24-year-old John Merritt began following the victim.

He was acting erratic, and he started to spit on me as how it started, said the woman.

When I tried to leave the situation, like get onto the train, he followed me.

I decided that wasn't the smartest move to get on the train where authorities cannot get to me and him.

So I stayed on the platform. I don't think the guy was going to get on the train where authorities cannot get to me and him. So I stayed on the platform.

I don't think the guy was going to get on the train. I just don't think the guy was going to get on

the train. So I stayed on the platform. He decided that it was the best idea to spit on me.

I don't know. See, again, you don't know if he decided it was the best idea.

Getting into the head a little bit too much. yeah. Joining me now, Mike, Vincent, hey, Michael.

How are you, Pat?

Good. Video footage shot by a bystander shows the assault only intensified after the woman decided to stay on the platform for fear.

The man would follow her onto the train.

It only intensified.

She intensified, and she escalated it by staying there she didn't she had there's something about getting into a little

skirmish with somebody that for some people was just addictive and they can't walk away from it it's

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