Posted on 05/06/2024 11:59:39 AM PDT by lowbridge
A L.A. Dash bus driver was attacked Sunday by a homeless woman in South Los Angeles, just two days after dozens of Metro transit operators staged a “sick out” amid ongoing safety concerns.
Officers with Los Angeles Police Department responded to reports of the most recent attack at just before 1 p.m. at the intersection of South-Central Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard, police confirmed.
Early reports by the video news service OnScene suggest the transient assaulted the driver after refusing to pay for a ride.
Video footage of the incident obtained by KTLA showed the violent struggle between the female bus operator and the homeless woman, who was able to drag the driver, who had been behind a plexiglass barrier, off the bus and onto the sidewalk.
The driver fought back as the homeless woman continued the violent attack, pulling on the bus operator’s uniform landing at least one blow to her face, video showed.
After several heated minutes of the violent altercation, the bus operator was able to get back into her vehicle and shut the homeless woman out before driving off.
The recent “sick out,” staged by operators with the L.A. County Metropolitan Transit Authority on May 3, came after a series of violent and even deadly attacks on bus and train operators and passengers.
On April 22, a Metro train passenger was stabbed to death on her way home from work in Studio City. Authorities said her attacker was a transient.
Earlier in the month, a bus driver was stabbed by a passenger in Willowbrook, and in March, a transient armed with an airsoft gun hijacked a Metro bus and crashed into the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Los Angeles.
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My sympathies, if votes R.
If votes D, deserves it.
The driver’s plexiglass barrier evidently didn’t do anything to protect her. I wonder why not. Poor design? Or did the driver have it open for some reason?
No passengers stepped in to defend her?
More of Satan’s animals running loose in the country!
> No passengers stepped in to defend her? <
Sometimes good folks are shocked into inaction. Then again, they might remember that Marine in NYC who stepped in, and is now charged with murder.
That is a phase of the culture war. Counterpart to college tent city mobs. If the faulty system of pseudo justice does not provide protection against criminals, people start to withdraw from the system's conformist inhibitions.
John Locke on his theory of the Social Contract:
Locke held that the obligation to obey civil government under the social contract was conditional upon the protection of the natural rights of each person, including the right to private property. Sovereigns who violated these terms could be justifiably overthrown.
Even Californians and New Yorkers are uncomfortable over the swarms of violent illegals, the urban thugs and the allowing of homeless and student encampments while they themselves have to obey the laws and go to work every day and pay too much in taxes.
Can it be potential criminals have realized the chances of them going to prison for committing a crime is negligible so why not?
Earlier in the month, a bus driver was stabbed by a passenger in Willowbrook,
It’s them again, Yogi.
Well said.
no one helped her...not one man nor woman tried to help....that is our country.....
Los Angeles where hobos have palm trees on the skid rows as the city pays them $625.00 an month your tax dollars at work.
“They should hire THIS guy”
This lady bus driver held her own getting in a few good kicks.
Yep! It’s sad and it makes me mad. 😠
I’ve walked up to 2 similar situations and I did not pretend that I’m blind and deaf.
It probably has something to do with my upbringing.
Wow!
There are photos online showing the bus driver being physically dragged off the bus. No intervening plexiglass.
You can call "south-central" "south" but it's still "south-central."
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