Woman Punched For Protesting ‘Manspreading’ In Subway Defended By Good Samaritan [VIDEO]

A stranger stepped forward to defend a Brooklyn woman who was punched in the face for complaining about “manspreading” while riding the subway Thursday.

Sam Saia, 37, was riding the N train at 7:45 a.m. EST, sitting at the end of the car when the man next to her pushed her to the side by spreading his legs wide open. When she requested the man to give her some room, he started yelling, using a range of sexist slurs.

“B----, you ain't nothing!” he shouted. “I've raped white b-----s like you, f------ c---! You ain't nothing, you f------ b----!”

Instead of engaging in a heated argument, Saia chose to ignore the situation, which she admitted later on, was a mistake.

“Stupid me, I should have got up at that point,” she told the Daily News. “I just told him to relax and I put my earbuds in.”

The rude passenger, instead of calming down, turned aggressive and punched Saia in the face, causing her head to reel back and hit the train’s wall. Soon after, Saia’s lower lip started bleeding, which is when a Good Samaritan stepped in.

The stranger, who identified himself as “off-duty,” grabbed hold of the aggressor and ordered him to leave the train. The encounter between him and the aggressor was recorded by a fellow passenger, which Saia then posted on her Facebook page.

“Get the f--- off the train. Get off the train, bro, you just f------ hit a lady,” the Good Samaritan is seen telling the man. As more people start to gang up against the assailant, he is seen apologizing to the victim. Saia is heard swearing at the man after his apology, saying, “I'm bleeding, you a—hole.”

Saia also goes on to mention in her post it was because of the video she came to know what her assailant looked like.

“…some lowlife who punched me in the face on the N train this morning, but didn’t get to see his face as it was covered by a scarf,” Saia wrote.

The assailant, as seen on the video, appears to be an African-American male.

After she struggled to file her report in the right precinct, Saia decided to take the matter public through social media.

“My next step was blow this up on social media,” Saia told the New York Daily News. “This took me by surprise. It's just a matter of safety. I want to my neighborhood to be safe. I don't want this to happen to other women or men.”

One of Saia’s co-passengers, Anthony Macca, who shared the video on his Facebook page, said he did not actually witness the assailant punch the Brooklyn woman but he did see the Good Samaritan standing up for Saia.

“She said, ‘You hit me!’ And then I heard a loud bang to my left,” Macca said. “The (Good Samaritan) grabbed the other guy, I started recording.”