“They absolutely were looking to fight somebody and the Lightning fan that was hit [on the footage] was just the person that was there at the time.”
The Staten Island New York Rangers fan who cold-cocked a rival sports lover at Madison Square Garden was looking for a fight, one of his victims told The Post.
“The both of them almost fought somebody, you know, a few floors up as I was getting out of the luxury suite,” the victim said. “That’s where I entered into the same area as them and they were starting with anybody with the Lightning jersey on well before that incident went down.”James Anastasio leaves his arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court on June 10.
The victim called “laughable” and false, claims by Anastasio’s lawyer, Jason Goldman, that his client was “immensely outnumbered and ultimately threatened by a group of highly intoxicated individuals.”
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