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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c..._was_refl.html
The Queens man accused of bashing a woman into a coma over an East Village parking space says he wishes he never raised his fist.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the attack on Lana Rosas, Oscar Fuller said he didn't realize the power of his punch until cops arrested him last Tuesday on felony assault charges.
"I wish I just let her hit me," Fuller told the Daily News on Sunday. "It was out of reflex, just a reaction that went the wrong way," he said of the Feb. 25 beatdown. "I don't believe this is happening."
He said he went to a birthday party following the encounter with Rosas, 25, of the Bronx, insisting he did not know she was critically injured.
"I left the incident so it would not become a bigger situation. I only hit the girl one time," said the father of two as his lawyer, Thomas Kenniff, sat nearby.
Fuller is accused of flying into a rage when Rosas refused to budge from an E. 14th St. parking space between Avenues A and B that she was saving for her boyfriend by standing in it.
Prosecutors charge that Fuller, who stands 5-feet-7 and weighs 150 pounds, hit the 4-foot-11, 100-pound Rosas so hard she "flew off her feet" and hit her head on the ground.
She continues to battle for her life at Bellevue Hospital, where doctors removed part of her skull to relieve brain swelling.
"As a man, as a person who believes in God, I would not want to take a person's life," Fuller said.
"My history speaks of not hitting a woman. Do I feel I was right to do what I did? No!"
Fuller, who works as an electrician, claimed he was acting in self-defense.
He admitted getting out of his car and says that he calmly asked Rosas to step away and let him park his Plymouth Voyager.
"She began hitting me in the face," he said. "It threw me off. It just puzzled me. She hit me like four or five times."
As the parking space standoff turned violent, Rosas' boyfriend, Joseph Oliver, 26, was across the street preparing to make a U-turn. He jumped out of his car and ran toward Fuller.
"I saw a guy running toward me," Fuller said. "I hit the girl, jumped into my car and pulled off."
Pointing to an old knife wound on the right side of his face, Fuller - whose rap sheet includes arrests for assault and drug charges - said his reaction might have something to do with being jumped and cut when he was 15.
"You never know what might happen," he said, blaming his street-survival instincts for provoking his fist.
Fuller said he didn't know he had been injured until he arrived at his friend's birthday party and someone asked why he was bleeding from his forehead.
He was arrested Tuesday after cops traced his license plate number to his Jamaica home. Witnesses subsequently picked him out in a lineup.
His was released Saturday on $100,000 bail.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly declined to comment on whether Fuller is a potential menace to society.
Some politicians have said that there should have been no bail.
Fuller insisted he is not a threat to the community and that he is full of remorse.
"I hope for her recovery to happen soon," he said. "I'm not running. I'm not hiding. I point the finger at myself."
Some people believe that if a woman is brave enough to hit a guy bigger then her then she should be brave enough to receive the hit that will be inflicted upon her.
But this is nuts, where's the tolerance? Just because you got hit, doesn't mean you should hit back. And over a parking space? And why are New Yorkers always angry anyway?
Cue the sweep the leg gif.
New Yorkers are gots
Got to control that temper guy
If she really started to hit him first, I don't feel sorry for either one.
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Dude acted in self defense.
Too many women think they can do whatever they want to men without any consequences just because they're women, I've seen it happen time and time again.
Oh and she's not 100lbs, she's at least 120lbs, probably around 130 -140 lbs (I saw a pic of her and she's pretty chubby). Sounds like she rushed him with "helicopter" punches and he just reacted. Everyone is different, not everybody would react the same in that situation.
I wonder after the trial if the courthouse is going to validate his parking.
Punching the girl probably wasn't the brightest idea, but she was hitting him first and he reacted by defending himself, who's really at fault here? And would this have even been news if both people were male?
If the psycho had stomped a pit-bull to death you guys would be calling for the death penalty….
What a wuss. I hope he does some hard time.
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This sounds like bullHe admitted getting out of his car and says that he calmly asked Rosas to step away and let him park his Plymouth Voyager.
"She began hitting me in the face," he said. "It threw me off. It just puzzled me. She hit me like four or five times."
As the parking space standoff turned violent, Rosas' boyfriend, Joseph Oliver, 26, was across the street preparing to make a U-turn. He jumped out of his car and ran toward Fuller.
"I saw a guy running toward me," Fuller said. "I hit the girl, jumped into my car and pulled off."So you "calmly" ask a woman to move and she starts going nuts with flying fists without warning? Bull lol. I know how NYKers are about parking spaces. He probably threatened to knock her block off if she didn't move.
I can't help but laugh when I picture him sucker punching the girl, jumping in his car and speeding off. Sounds like something out of a bad comedy lol.
if true that she hit him first, regardless of what he said, i hope she doesn't make it
I dunno. The end of the story (when he runs like a ), he seems to lose some credibility.
Only if he was unprovoked. If a pit-bull attacked him and he stomped the pit to death, no problem.
Self defense and now this guy is gonna get locked up because this thought it was ok to hit a man.
Whatever happned to just sucking it up an being man about these situations? Those days are long gone I suppose.
A 100 pound woman isn't going to do much damage to you unless you are a complete wuss yourself.
She'll think twice before physically assaulting someone else. Assuming she lives.
Leave "manhood" out of this. The law is the law. The lady assaulted first which is an offense and the guy retaliated in defense.
It sucks that she's in a coma though but some people take lessons harder than others. Hopefully people would learn from this and avoid being in a coma or worse.
And what the is she doing hitting black men geez. Black men still go through hardships in life that causes them to react violently. Remember that prank where this guy in a mask jumps out the trashcan and scares this black dude, and his immediate response was to attack and knocked him back into the trashcan? lol
So the guy who ran like a says. Also it's not allways self defence if you might be an instigator as well.
"Assault is committed if a person intentionally, knowingly or recklessly threatens another with imminent bodily injury, causes bodily injury to another, or causes physical contact with another when he knows or should reasonably believe that the other will regard the contact as offensive or provocative."
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