Again, this isn't sounds of a gun, or someone getting beaten. This is one person, telling a non-observant masker what to do and somewhere between her request and the camera rolling things escalated to dumbass words.
It's Florida and maybe a polite request was immediated rebutted with raving racist idioicy or maybe there's a little more happening before. We don't really know. There is a lot context in the bus between the unmasked passengers that we don't have visibility to. He has a mask, it is pulled down. So they aren't blatant anti-maskers.
I don't fault her for asking but at a certain point, as Elsa would say "let it go, let it go"
I am a little curious what the other passnegers thought of the non-videoed exchange.
More importantly, this was in Florida this past week. Everybody on that bus has a mask, bandana or other facial covering except for the guy in question and his female companion whose masks are around their chins and neck. They also are about as spread out as they can get. So much for the claims of Florida doing it right by not doing anything, because clearly the regular people are.
eyephone said:
Sometimes you have to take action before the problem gets out of control. You don?t have to be Rambo or bust martial arts and fight the person. (not everybody can fight I get it) A simple phone call or alerting a worker would help tremendously.
For example, recently an Instacart shopper alerted staff at a market that it sounded like a gun the bathroom. Just imagine, what could of happen if the person didn?t tell the store worker.
Independent News: Atlanta Publix gunman was caught by Instacart shopper
An Instacart shopper alerted staff at an Atlanta supermarket after seeing an AR-15 rifle and hearing what he thought was the sound of guns being loaded with ammunition in the store?s bathroom.
Staff at the branch of Publix called the police who upon arrival arrested a suspect as he exited the bathroom and found that he had six guns, CNN reports.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...publix-gunman-instacart-shopper-b1823197.html
nosuchreality said:
Again, years riding the trains have shown me that by standers interjecting into a verbal argument tend to escalate the situation and not defuse it.
I will posit for everybody that a guy looking like the white patriarchy sticking his nose in the middle of a Black and Asian argument on a will mixed Florida bus that is already teetering off the rails is going to light the whole bus up like a roman candle.
The key is getting things to de-escalate.