An MTA bus driver punched
23-year-old Rudolph Alexander in the face after an altercation on the
driver's route
The dispute reportedly began
after 23-year-old *Rudolph Alexander* boarded
the bus with an empty metro card.
(Rudolph Alexander)
When the driver, *Robert Volkens* , asked him
to get off the bus, he allegedly refused. Another passenger eventually
paid Alexander’s fare. But when the bus stopped at Avenue H and Nostrand
Ave., Alexander allegedly spat on the bus driver twice and got off.
The driver followed the man off the bus and allegedly assaulted him.
Perhaps the most well-known dispute between a bus driver and a passenger
took
place in Cleveland in October.
*Shi’dea Lane* boarded a city bus and allegedly did not have the fare to
pay for her ride. The bus driver, *Artis Hughes*, reportedly asked Lane
to
leave but she refused, saying that she was looking for the fare in her
purse. A heated argument ensued that ended with the driver uppercutting
Lane after she allegedly spat on him. The incident was video-recorded via
cell phone and went viral. Hughes was fired for his actions.
In October, New York State Assemblyman Eric Stevenson (D-Bronx)
introduced
legislation that would require all buses to have protective partitions
for
drivers. Currently, fewer than 15 percent of the MTA’s 4,600 fleet of
local
buses have shields, and only 662 buses have surveillance cameras.
This year alone, there have been at least 71 felony assaults against bus
drivers in New York City.
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Keep therefore and
do [them]; for this [is] your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of
the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great
nation [is] a wise and understanding people.
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For what nation [is
there so] great, who [hath] God [so] nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is]
in all [things that] we call upon him [for]?
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And what nation [is
there so] great, that hath statutes and judgments [so] righteous as all this
law, which I set before you this day?
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