A city bus driver in Washington state was brutally beaten when he confronted an unhinged passenger for swearing at other riders, a video shows.
The driver, who was not identified, needed to be taken to a hospital after Tuesday’s attack, which occurred on an Intercity Transit bus on the west side of Olympia, local KOMO-TV reported. Security video showed the driver warning the burly rider to stop harassing passengers before stopping the bus and ordering him off.
During an argument, the rider said, “If you hit me in the face, we will fight to death.” The driver tried to shove the man off, and the man hit him in the face, sending the driver sprawling into a row of seats. The man then pummeled the driver in the face and head, striking him more than a dozen times. At one point, as another rider struggled to pull the attacker off, he bizarrely mocked the driver.
“You bleeding?” the man screams.
“Yea,” the bus driver replies.
“Is that real blood? Let me taste it,” the man says, before touching the man’s face and appearing to lick his finger.
Other passengers called 911, but the man split before cops arrived. He was later arrested at a downtown transit station on suspicion of third-degree assault. The driver was treated for his injuries at a local hospital and released on Tuesday night.
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