What would you do if a well-dressed man, who is clearly drunk, interrupted your dinner and began hurling racial slurs at you and your significant other for no apparent reason other than you were there, in front of him, during his drunken rage? You'd probably knock the guy out, too, and that's exactly what Reddish did.

The drunk fell back and hit his head pretty hard on the pavement, though. "He was out cold. I thought he was dead," Benny’s worker Robert Garcia told the Post. "He mentioned the N-word, this guy hits him one time and he hits his head on the curb," another witness told the Daily News. Reddish fled the scene after the unidentified racist drunk started "bleeding profusely," but he was picked up by the New York Police Department a few blocks away, according to CBS New York, and charged with assault.

The drunk, who "could hardly walk," according to one witness, is now in critical condition at Beth Israel Hospital. That same witness said she spoke with the man before he got clocked and he was upset about his wife leaving him and his job at Goldman Sachs.

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