Punched gal blasts police

THE NYPD OPENED an investigation Friday into allegations that cops rebuffed a straphanger trying to report that a nut she criticized for “manspreading” punched her in the face on a Brooklyn train.

Sam Saia, 37, said she was riding the N train through Bensonhurst when the man next to her spread his legs wide, crowding her into the side of the car about 7:45 a.m. Thursday.

When she asked him, “Can you give me a little room?” she says he started shouting at her.

“B----, you ain’t nothing! I’ve raped white b-----s like you f---ing c--t!”!” the man yelled, according to Saia (inset bottom).

The psycho punched Saia in the mouth, splitting her lip and banging her head against the wall of the subway car, she said.

Victor Conde, 29, on the other end of the train, ran through the car after Saia was punched.

“I was mad that he hit her and no one else on the train did anything,” he said.

Conde grabbed the attacker by the wrist and told him to get off the train.

“I got in his face and confronted him. I said ‘What are you doing?’ ” he said (top inset). “I told him I was an off-duty officer to defuse the situation and he changed his tune. I just think he was a sick individual.”

Conde, a Bensonhurst native, and Saia agreed that the attacker should just leave the train. At the next stop, he did.

Saia went to the 17th Precinct stationhouse in Midtown, where two desk officers told her she had to go to Transit District 34 in Brooklyn, which has jurisdiction over the train line where the attack occurred, to file a report. One of the cops gave her a note with that information, she said.

Under NYPD rules, cops are supposed to take crime reports on the spot, not refer victims to other commands.

She went to the hospital for treatment and called the transit district headquarters from there. A cop there told Saia sharply she could file a report anywhere — so she would be wasting her time coming there, she says.

“Clearly, she did not want to do her job,” Saia said of the cop. “She was quite nasty.”

Saia, who works as an office manager, went back to the 17th Precinct stationhouse and once again got resistance from the same officer.

“She said she could take a report but it just would loop back to Transit District 34,” Saia said.

“She then told me if I see him (her attacker) again please to call 911. What am I going to say, ‘Please don’t attack me while I call 911?’”

Frustrated, Saia posted word of the assault on social media.

“I said to myself, ‘OK, I’ll just blow it up on social media,’” she said. “I’m here doing what the police are supposed to do. I just want awareness and I want us to be safe.”

Investigators have reached out to brass at the 17th Precinct and Transit District 34 to find out why Saia was discouraged from filing a report — in apparent violation of NYPD policy.

In the meantime, Chief of Transit Joseph Fox, commander of the 17th Precinct, has started an internal investigation into why the report wasn’t taken.

Saia returned to the 17th Precinct stationhouse Friday to file her report.

“They [the officers] were really nice. They just apologized profusely,” said Saia.

The cop who shooed Saia away will most likely face a command discipline but not face departmental charges, an NYPD official said.