Brawl on NYC Subway After 'Drunk' Man Won't Leave Train, Threatens to Pee on Passenger

As with many cell phone video brawls, it's not always easy to sort out the details. But here's what we know about this fight that occurred on Friday night on a New York City train. A man refused to get off the train (and threatened to pee on another passenger), and that led to some very angry passengers. One guy got so angry he pushed the man out of the train, and then the two started brawling. Eventually, the man who pushed the guy out of the train landed a strike right to the face, knocking the obstinate man to the ground.

A couple people captured the incident, and one of them talked to Gothamist:

Cheronique Nimmons filmed the first video, and tells us the man in blue "was very drunk...He was showing his Hennessy bottle that he had in a special case." After a woman accused him of touching her, he "threatened to piss on her man," and moved on to talking to the girls seen in the video. As his stop arrives, "he starts to get off and he pushed past a couple of people and when he got to the door he wouldn't get out...He starts talking s**t to the guy in all black," who then pulls a box cutter on the drunk man. The man in the white t-shirt shoves him out, and a sloppy fight ensues.

Here's how Nimmons captured the fight (CONTENT WARNING for language in both videos):

And here's how another passenger - standing on the platform -- saw it. This passenger captured the "knockout" blow that sent the man in blue to the ground:

After seeing the video, you might think that the police rushed to the seen to restore order. Not really, as Gothamist notes:

Nimmons says that eventually the police showed up and looked for the man in blue's magical Hennessy bag, but couldn't find it, and since no one was hurt, "they just looked by the tracks for the guy's book bag and let the train leave the station."

No one was hurt so they just moved on? The former mayor of Jersey City, NJ once told me that he cleaned up the once-deplorable city by treating small crimes -- like gambling in the subway -- seriously. By cleaning up the little things, and showing people he was serious, the city experienced its greatest turn around ever. Gambling stopped, but so did robberies on the train.

That seems to be a lesson that could be had here.