Man viciously knocked out after falling asleep on fellow passenger

Violent footage of a passenger knocking a man unconscious for falling asleep on his shoulder – and igniting a brawl – has gone viral.

A commuter on a New York subway went berserk and violently elbowed a fellow rider who fell asleep on his shoulder.

A passenger on a New York City subway went berserk and violently elbowed a fellow rider who fell asleep on his shoulder — igniting a brawl that was caught on camera.

The video, which has since gone viral, captured the ornery commuter smashing his elbows into the sleepy commuter’s face — knocking him unconscious — before throwing fists with the victim’s friend.

The fight took place around 5.30am on the northbound F train as it was approaching the Forest Hills 71st Ave station in Queens, according to police.

The attacker yelled at his 27-year-old victim in both Spanish and English for using him as a pillow, but both the man and his friend stood their ground and argued back.

“I speak your f**king dialect and I know who the f**k you are,” he shouted.

Then he turns to a man sitting right next to him and waves his hand in his face.

“You are sleeping and I am not your f**king pillow,” he shouted in Spanish.

“If you want to sleep, sleep on his side since you are both sleeping because I am not your f**king pillow,” he said, pointing to someone off camera.

“Understood? Understood?” the attacker asks the man repeatedly in Spanish.

The attacker — clad in a gray American flag T-shirt, sunglasses and baseball cap — can be seen shoving his hand in the victim’s face as he shouts and grows more agitated.

He eventually loses his cool when the victim leans in to whisper a response.

That’s when he slams his elbow into the man’s face three times, causing him to lose consciousness for several seconds.

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The victim’s friend, wearing a patterned Hawaiian shirt, immediately leaps from across the train to fight back.

The two threw fists as commuters throughout the train scattered away from the drama and as the dazed victim attempted to recover.

The scuffle didn’t last long, according to cops — the victim and his companion got off the train when it pulled into the subway system, leaving their attacker to continue riding to his unknown destination.

The duo made their way to the 112th precinct, just half a mile from the station, to report the attack, police said.

The victim refused medical attention and his companion did not report any injuries.

The attacker is still on the loose, though an open complaint for assault has been lodged against him.

This article was originally published by the New York Post and reproduced with permission

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