Video: Commuters take down man for shoving straphanger onto subway tracks

A fiend shoved a straphanger onto some Manhattan subway tracks during the morning rush Thursday — and then attacked a cop who took him into custody, according to police.

Emergency services workers were called to the scene on the F train platform of the Broadway-Lafayette station at 10:10 a.m. after someone was pushed onto the track bed, authorities said.

Witnesses said the apparently homeless man tossed a total stranger onto the downtown tracks before a half-dozen good Samaritans helped the victim up and detained the attacker for police.

Video obtained exclusively by The Post shows multiple people chasing the man, who at one point rips his shirt off before exchanging a series of blows with the intervening straphangers.

He can later be seen bull-rushing through a phalanx of Good Sams, but as he’s charging upstairs, another person comes down the steps and body checks him backwards, the clip shows.

“Call the cops!” someone can be seen yelling after the mob got him on the ground.

A police officer suffered a minor wrist injury taking the suspect into custody, according to authorities.

The victim who was pushed onto the tracks suffered a cut to the head but refused medical attention.

Local trains through the station were rerouted until about 10:20 a.m., the MTA said.

Additional reporting by David Meyer and Elizabeth Rosner

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