OLYMPIA, Wash. – A 24-year-old man is behind bars for felony assault, after a brutal beating of a bus driver was captured on bus surveillance cameras.
The surveillance video starts with the bus driver repeatedly telling a belligerent passenger to get off the bus. It happened on an Intercity Transit bus, Route 47 in Olympia Tuesday afternoon.
“When I got on, he was shouting obscenities,” said River Nason, who was one of several riders on the bus watching the situation escalate.
The driver eventually pulled over and walked to the back of the bus.
You can hear the driver yell “Get off my bus!” and “Why don’t you leave?” repeatedly to the passenger.
The passenger finally walks to the exit, but refuses to leave. The driver then tried pushing the passenger out the door. That’s when the passenger starts punching him repeatedly in the face and the chest.
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