Bus Driver Goes BERZERK on Irate Teen Girl - Who's Right??
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OCTOBER 12--The Cleveland bus driver who delivered an uppercut to an unruly female passenger told cops that he struck the woman after she grabbed his throat and spit in his face as he was driving, according to police reports.
Artis Hughes, 59, was interviewed by officers shortly after the September 18 confrontation with Shi'dea Lane, 25, on a Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) bus.
Video of the fight (see below) went viral online this week, prompting RTA officials to suspend Hughes, a 22-year veteran, and characterize his behavior as "absolutely unacceptable."
When cops responded to the stopped bus around 4 PM, Hughes and three passengers described Lane (pictured at right) as the incident's aggressor. Hughes told cops that Lane initially boarded the bus without paying, claiming, "I left my bookbag."
Hughes said that after Lane, a restaurant employee, eventually paid her fare, she told him, "You a Bitch and Your Momma's a Bitch Too!" She also reportedly stated, "Keep talking about me and I will spit on you!"
In a written statement, Hughes recalled that Lane "grabbed me in the throat and spit on me in the face." In response, the driver said he stopped the bus, "and I protected myself." The Hughes statement does not reveal that he hit Lane squarely in the jaw with a bolo punch that knocked her to the ground.
One witness told cops that a "drunk" Lane "got on the bus fliping out" and "started talking crazy" to Hughes. After spitting on Hughes, the witness wrote in a statement, the driver "did what he had to do."
A second witness wrote that Lane was "loud and obnoxious" from the start, and spit on Hughes and "started hitting him." The witness added, "That's when he hit her back." A third witness described Lane as "drunk" and reported that "she hit him and he jumped out of his seat and started fighting her."
When first interviewed by cops, Hughes said he was willing to prosecute Lane. But a week after the incident, he called a police detective to report that he "did not wish to pursue prosecution of the female suspect." He subsequently signed a "Refuse to Prosecute Form."
Lane was not arrested at the scene. In fact, following the confrontation, she was transported to the restaurant where she works by police officers.
According to her Facebook page, Lane, the mother of a four-year-old girl, loves "2 go to church," and considers herself "a people person." In a May posting, Lane wrote that she was trying to get “famous and rich,” and referred to “being shot and stabbed in ma face,” which “prolly messed me up from tryin to model.”
Seven years ago, Lane was shot four times during a robbery at the home of a male friend. During the bus fight, Lane’s injuries from the stabbing prompted Hughes to comment, “Look like somebody done sliced your face up.”
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/cleveland-bus-punch-report-687451
Artis Hughes, 59, was interviewed by officers shortly after the September 18 confrontation with Shi'dea Lane, 25, on a Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) bus.
Video of the fight (see below) went viral online this week, prompting RTA officials to suspend Hughes, a 22-year veteran, and characterize his behavior as "absolutely unacceptable."
When cops responded to the stopped bus around 4 PM, Hughes and three passengers described Lane (pictured at right) as the incident's aggressor. Hughes told cops that Lane initially boarded the bus without paying, claiming, "I left my bookbag."
Hughes said that after Lane, a restaurant employee, eventually paid her fare, she told him, "You a Bitch and Your Momma's a Bitch Too!" She also reportedly stated, "Keep talking about me and I will spit on you!"
In a written statement, Hughes recalled that Lane "grabbed me in the throat and spit on me in the face." In response, the driver said he stopped the bus, "and I protected myself." The Hughes statement does not reveal that he hit Lane squarely in the jaw with a bolo punch that knocked her to the ground.
One witness told cops that a "drunk" Lane "got on the bus fliping out" and "started talking crazy" to Hughes. After spitting on Hughes, the witness wrote in a statement, the driver "did what he had to do."
A second witness wrote that Lane was "loud and obnoxious" from the start, and spit on Hughes and "started hitting him." The witness added, "That's when he hit her back." A third witness described Lane as "drunk" and reported that "she hit him and he jumped out of his seat and started fighting her."
When first interviewed by cops, Hughes said he was willing to prosecute Lane. But a week after the incident, he called a police detective to report that he "did not wish to pursue prosecution of the female suspect." He subsequently signed a "Refuse to Prosecute Form."
Lane was not arrested at the scene. In fact, following the confrontation, she was transported to the restaurant where she works by police officers.
According to her Facebook page, Lane, the mother of a four-year-old girl, loves "2 go to church," and considers herself "a people person." In a May posting, Lane wrote that she was trying to get “famous and rich,” and referred to “being shot and stabbed in ma face,” which “prolly messed me up from tryin to model.”
Seven years ago, Lane was shot four times during a robbery at the home of a male friend. During the bus fight, Lane’s injuries from the stabbing prompted Hughes to comment, “Look like somebody done sliced your face up.”
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/cleveland-bus-punch-report-687451
I understand what you both are saying, but I'm glad the ancestors didn't adopt that mindset (conflict avoidance) while they were living. This mentality is the very one MLK, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, and countless others warned about in their books and public statements as a detriment to Black folks.
"Perhaps you have found in your life, as I have in mine, that conflict avoidance simply does not solve anything. In truth, it leaves injustice and lack of brotherhood in place. It holds the aggrieved in a state of victimhood. It fills one’s soul with self-rejection and depression, all the while allowing cruel perpetrators to continue unchecked in their unjust and oppressive ways." - Fr. Charles Irvin
"Conflict avoidance is not conflict resolution." - MLK Jr.
On a lighter note, you both forget one key fact.
Reporter: What did that feel like?
Not only was she a teenager she was a girl he was a man period not to mention he was on his j.o.b. which he probably will lose behind that shit in hind site I'm sure even he will say it was a bad move
Ummmmm read a news article
lets be real though.
we are in a recession. you have to protect your job at all costs. im sure he has mouths to feed.
at worst he should have grabbed her and physically put her off the bus or better yet stopped the bus and dialed 911.
dude was mad unprofessional. that flawless uppercut was nice but overall that was dumb as hell.
funny thing is if he handled it the right way, pulled over and called the cops, the same people u can hear screaming "hey thats a girl!!" would have been laughing at him, recording the shit an calling him a bitch and a pussy.
we are in a recession. you have to protect your job at all costs. im sure he has mouths to feed.
at worst he should have grabbed her and physically put her off the bus or better yet stopped the bus and dialed 911.
dude was mad unprofessional. that flawless uppercut was nice but overall that was dumb as hell.
funny thing is if he handled it the right way, pulled over and called the cops, the same people u can hear screaming "hey thats a girl!!" would have been laughing at him, recording the shit an calling him a bitch and a pussy.
First thing that came to my mind was...
I completely agree with EVERYTHING dudes are saying when it comes to his job. Again, WE DON'T know what someone will do when they are attacked. We can all Monday morning quarterback but you never know how you will react when you are in that situation.
I have to think about my job everyday where I work because I deal with the public. One bad move and you can lose your gig for simply being misinterpreted.
If it was me, I would have simply stopped the bus, call the police and put her off. Dude was arguing with her back and forth, I'm not the arguing type. Maybe dudes just a don't take shit person and today was the day.
Bottom line:
I blame him for not being professional and using protocol to quiet the situation.
I blame her for being raised by wolves.
*Still funny she got her ass whooped though
I have to think about my job everyday where I work because I deal with the public. One bad move and you can lose your gig for simply being misinterpreted.
If it was me, I would have simply stopped the bus, call the police and put her off. Dude was arguing with her back and forth, I'm not the arguing type. Maybe dudes just a don't take shit person and today was the day.
Bottom line:
I blame him for not being professional and using protocol to quiet the situation.
I blame her for being raised by wolves.
*Still funny she got her ass whooped though
Damn she took four shots and got sliced up?!? Yeah after all that the uppercut was a walk in the park.
Punching that chick was NOT worth his job...
And if were a NIGGA instead of that little girl... I can GUARANTEE YOU... He wouldn't have swung...
You can't apply the civil rights test in this case.
He should of pulled over called the cop, felt a touch of sorrow for this ignorant woman, then went about his life.
He proved nothing by winning a battle that he was going to win, then lose the war.
Has nothing to do with the CR movement, but conflict avoidance. Whether it's the CRM, Chamberlain/Hitler/Czechoslovakia, 9/11 warnings, etc., ignoring a problem, more often than not, is not going to make the immediate threat disappear. The result is often permanent physical harm or loss of life. One of my boys is damn near a vegetable because he wouldn't defend himself against a female.
Spitting is consider assault where I live. Yes to wrongs don't make a right and I am against violence to woman, but it has its limits. He drove far to long with the female yelling he should have stopped and called dispatch for PD. I am mad after 22 years he's now gonna catch hell at work and she will get off. He best get ready to counter sue.....C'Mon Son
Punching that chick was NOT worth his job...
And if were a NIGGA instead of that little girl... I can GUARANTEE YOU... He wouldn't have swung...
He wouldn't have had to because more likely than not, a young cat wouldnt have put his hands on him in the first place. There's a reason girl fights are more entertaining than men fighting. We bring pride and a fear of losing to our fights that women do not.
I'm against men hitting women but when you escalate a verbal battle to physical, you can't hide behind "I'm a female!" when it goes wrong. Everyone's sex was understood before but she clearly thought nothing would happen and paid the price. Tough shit. I just hate that he's out of a job over it.
Come to find out the piece of shit works at Marbella on Chagrin in Pepper Pike. I bet money she don't mouth off to those white folks like that. I know the bitch must know how to act. They would throw her ass in jail so fast her head would spin.
Not only does she know who to pull that "I'm a female shit", she knows when to act a hood ass and when to act like she has some fucking sense. I bet the bitch talk like a Valley Girl at work.
In looking around the net, I see most support is for him. Reminds me of that McDonald's case.
Funniest thing since this
You made a lot of Grown Man points.....but keep in mind that all that "you better run because youre a Black Man living in a White Supremacist Country" doesnt apply to all Black Men. True....If your a Black Male a lot of the laws are stacked up against you whether youre a criminal or not, but you shouldnt feel like you have to tolerate bs just cause.
I agree that he couldve took a little off the uppercut or just avoided hitting her all together, but that only applies to that situation. You may want to run your big balck ass away to avoid the bs...but sometimes you have no choice but to stand your ground and exercise your rights. Just exercise them intelligently.
People have their breaking point, and can take oh but so much at any given time; not to mention IF they're being provoked. Clearly, he was. She never had an ounce of respect for herself, the driver and/or the passengers aboard the bus. She acted like a savage; hence the treatment.
She acted like a savage; hence the treatment.
Man watching that shit makes me dislike this broad even more.
When pressed for her role in the incident she goes and hide behind a lawyer like the bitch that she is!!!
At least that dizzy bitcht learned one thing she will never put herself in that situation again
I guess he knocked some sense into her ass.
Total bitch shit.....of course the majority of bgol will be on his side
Funniest thing since this
First time I saw this.
This bitch was clearly a butch too.
Teach your daughters, folks.
Don't matter if the girl liken Queen Latifah and the dude likens Urkel.
Good chance the dude is stronger and the girl will get got.
this incident immediately reminded me of this.
these two chicks must be related.....
Dude was talking shit when the brother left why he aint say shit when he was there.
I do not condone violence on women but she deserved that punch.I am surprised no one stopped her because it looked like she tried to grab the steering wheel on the second video. Then you could hear some woman cheering her on until he gave her an uppercut. I have a family member that drive those type of buses and he said the passengers are ignorant at times. She did not have any remorse. She just stated she will walk away next time. I believe she spit on him because a man will usually walk away unless you spit on him. People need to raise their children better so that they do not become ignorant adults.
I am surprised no one stopped her because it looked like she tried to grab the steering wheel on the second video. Then you could hear some woman cheering her on until he gave her an uppercut. I have a family member that drive those type of buses and he said the passengers are ignorant at times. She did not have any remorse. She just stated she will walk away next time. I believe she spit on him because a man will usually walk away unless you spit on him. People need to raise their children better so that they do not become ignorant adults.Amazing.
This guy just threw away 20 + years time on the job on some bullshit and some people are cheering that??
As hard as it is to get/keep a decent job.
These idiots also just reenforced negative stereotypes about Black people to the World.
That Black Men are misogynistic and violent and Black Women are loud and unfeminine.
Instead of talking about getting his daughter/granddaughter on her he should've been calling the cops.
You call the police and have her silly ass arrested for assault .
You DON'T hit her and fuck up your life/job.
I BET you that if she was White he would've had self control then.
This guy just threw away 20 + years time on the job on some bullshit and some people are cheering that??
As hard as it is to get/keep a decent job.
These idiots also just reenforced negative stereotypes about Black people to the World.
That Black Men are misogynistic and violent and Black Women are loud and unfeminine.
Instead of talking about getting his daughter/granddaughter on her he should've been calling the cops.
You call the police and have her silly ass arrested for assault .
You DON'T hit her and fuck up your life/job.
I BET you that if she was White he would've had self control then.