Police respond after bus driver reports assault with vapor, Minneapolis MN
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As discussed during the dispatch call, a bus driver near Nicollet Avenue and South Seventh Street in Minneapolis reported that a passenger deliberately blew vapor into their face multiple times. The driver requested police assistance and indicated cameras might have captured the incident. The individual left the bus near Nicollet and Seventh after acting aggressively. The call appears to involve possible disorderly or harassing behavior directed at the bus operator.
Audio|Heard on: Hennepin MN Transportation Group Calls
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02:59
Transcript:
00:00
Eight 4784.
00:03
Good afternoon.
00:04
Good afternoon.
00:05
I just want to report somebody came to me in front of me.
00:11
He did vape me.
00:15
I don't know which kind of vape, but he just vaping on my face.
00:22
He just passed this gate, my driver's gate, and he just vaping onto my face too.
00:31
Around three times.
00:34
And I cannot do anything, but I want to report if the camera catch his face, I want to go to court with this situation.
00:49
Okay, eleven here.
00:50
So what exactly happened? He just swiping on bus 1st, and I saw him, and I told him to leave.
00:58
She just sorry, he say.
01:01
Okay, don't do it again.
01:03
And I said three.
01:05
When he get downtown,
01:08
he just get off.
01:11
After a while, he just run to this bus, and I thought he dropped something.
01:17
And I told you, and I said, oh, you dropped something.
01:22
And he just came to my face.
01:25
He is vaping on my face two times, three times.
01:29
And he just go out and run.
01:34
Okay, so he was.
01:36
So when you said that you thought he had dropped something, he then vaped in your face and blew the smoke in your face?
01:43
He purposely come to blow.
01:46
Yeah, to my face.
01:48
Okay, so he was vaping right there in your face and blowing the smoke onto your face? Yes.
01:55
Okay, copy that.
01:57
And where did he exit at?
01:59
Nicollet Avenue and Seventh Street.
02:02
Okay, and you want to speak with police to do a report, is that correct? Yes.
02:07
Okay. And then do you have a description of this male?
02:10
Yeah, I need to see a camera.
02:14
Camera touched his face,
02:17
and I don't want them to go free.
02:20
I just want to go until the last station because I let him.
02:29
Because of his safety story, purposely he just come to.
02:34
I don't know describe.
02:43
From top to here is a trouser, even black.
02:49
He just crossed it when I see him.
02:51
I know it.
02:53
Okay,
02:54
Copy that. So male in twenties, and you say he was wearing black pants? What color jacket?
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Location mentioned:
Nicollet Ave & S 7th St, Minneapolis, MN 55402
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