A drunken man was punched out and sent to a hospital in serious condition last night after he yelled racial epithets at a couple quietly eating at a West Village burrito shop , cops and witnesses said.
The violence went down at about 5:50 p.m. outside the Benny’s Burrito on the Greenwich Avenue and Jane Street.
A black couple was sitting outside the Mexican joint when an intoxicated white man stumbled into their table.
Douglas Reddish, 25, who was eating with his girlfriend, tried to help him regain his balance, cops said, and the wait staff came over to shoo the table crasher away.
“This n----r wants to fight me!” the belligerent man yelled, cops said.
Reddish knocked him out with a blow to the face, authorities said.
The drunken man fell backwards onto the sidewalk and hit his head on the concrete curb, cops said.
“He was out cold. I thought he was dead,” said Benny’s worker Robert Garcia.
Reddish attempted to attack him again, but employees held him back, cops said.
When Reddish saw that the drunken man was bleeding profusely he fled the scene, leaving his girlfriend at the restaurant, cops said.
Police arrested him shortly after and charged him with assault for attacking the man, believed to be in his 30s.
A woman who spoke with the man before he was knocked out said he was upset over his wife leaving him and about his job at Goldman Sachs.
“I felt so bad,” she said. “He could hardly walk.”
The angry white man was taken to Beth Israel Hospital, authorities said.
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