Now that’s an understatement.
Accused subway pusher Naeem Davis said he was in a bad mood and “shouldn’t have let this happen” when he clashed with a drunk man on a subway platform before allegedly pushing him onto the tracks, according to court papers.
“Yes, for the sake of argument, I could have walked away,” Davis told cops after he was arrested the next day. “But it was just bad timing. He came at the wrong time.”
Davis said he was still mad over an incident that happened two day before involving a man who threw away his boots.
Still, he claimed he was defending himself Dec. 3 when Ki-Suk Han, 58, confronted him on the platform.
Davis pleaded not guilty at his arraignment today .
His lawyer, Stephen Pokart, told Judge Bonnie Wittner that prosecutors should share its witness list so he can build a proper defense that would show victim Han was the aggressor and that Davis was merely protecting himself.
Even Wittner suggested that Davis’ self-defense claim may be going too far.
“There was no other way to prevent injury to himself except by pushing [Han] onto the train tracks with an oncoming train?” Wittner asked. “He could have been drunk, but I still don’t think it was in defense to throw somebody onto the subway tracks. I could be wrong.”