Transit driver, supervisor assaulted in separate incidents
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TWO people are facing charges after Winnipeg Transit employees were assaulted in separate incidents within a 10-hour span Tuesday.
A 51-year-old man is accused of randomly throwing a beer can at a driver while exiting a bus at Dunkirk Avenue and Kingston Row at about 6 a.m.
The driver was bitten while trying to restrain the suspect, police said. A man was charged with assault and held in custody.
MIKAELA MACKENZIE / FREE PRESS The fare box on a conventional Winnipeg Transit bus on Monday, June 17, 2024. For file photos.
A supervisor was punched in the face at about 3:40 p.m., by a rider who refused to pay bus fare at Main Street and Pioneer Avenue, police said.
The supervisor, who was enforcing fares outside a stopped bus, held a 31-year-old woman until police arrived. The suspect, who faces a charge of assaulting a peace officer, was released on an appearance notice.
The incidents occurred less than two weeks after Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1505 renewed a call for safety shields which would fully enclose bus operators while they are in the driver’s seat, to be tested to determine if they should be rolled out across the city’s entire fleet.
It followed an attack in which the union said a female passenger reached around a safety shield and twice stabbed a driver in the leg with a syringe. The incident happened on Isabel Street near William Avenue at about 1 a.m. on Aug. 5.
The union said a driver was threatened with a syringe the previous day.
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