Bus driver fired after successfully defending himself against irate passenger that started shooting at him while driving in Charlotte, North Carolina
“We don’t want anyone possessing weapons on our vehicles” Brent Cagle, interim CEO: Charlotte Area Transit System said pic.twitter.com/I5r1TzzyA8
— Newstongue (@newstongue) May 29, 2023
Guns in America. Charlotte, North Carolina bus driver and passenger get into wild shootout on moving bus. (Video: ABC7) pic.twitter.com/QGysaOrX6N
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) May 29, 2023
The biggest problem I have with the blacks is that they be wilin’, they finna pop off.
Terrifying video shows a wild shootout on a moving North Carolina bus — with the driver returning gunfire with a passenger who pulled a weapon on him for not stopping where he wanted.
The disturbing footage from inside a Charlotte bus shows the hooded passenger — identified by cops as Omarri Shariff Tobias, 20 — strolling to the front demanding to be let off.
Omarri Shariff Tobias, 20
The bus driver, David Fullard, shakes his head while telling the passenger he can’t stop at the undesignated spot — sparking a series of threats.
“I dare you to touch me! I’m gonna pop your ass,” the passenger says at one point, according to WSOCTV.
The passenger steps back and pulls out a handgun — seemingly unaware that Fullard was also readying a weapon of his own.
As the passenger walks back and raises his weapon, the driver also opens fire — with around a dozen shots fired through a screen, caught on multiple cameras inside the bus, the local outlet noted.
Tobias was hit in the abdomen and initially hospitalized with suspected life-threatening injuries, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said of the May 18 morning shootout.
He was charged last week with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injuries, communicating threats and carrying a concealed firearm and is being held in jail ahead of a June 6 court date, records show.
Fullard, the driver, was hit in the arm. He has not been charged, although police stressed that “the investigation” is “active and ongoing.”
However, he was fired from his job of 19 years for breaking rules against being armed, the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) confirmed to CNN.
“It would have been reasonable for the operator to attempt to de-escalate the situation by allowing the suspect/passenger to exit the bus before arriving at the next bus stop,” the transit system also said.
Yes, the reasonable thing is to always do whatever black people tell you to do, in order to prevent them from trying to kill you.
That makes sense.