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| Bus driver survives an attack. |
Okay, I am not going to rush to conclusions on this one. I want to say that crime occurs in Dayton, Ohio. But this one is kind of unusual. I mean the shooting that occurred on Monday is getting national coverage.
The bus driver doing his daily route was shot by three individuals. The Dayton Police, Montgomery County Sheriff and the FBI are looking into how this occur. Even some law enforcement members are saying this could be a motivated hate crime.
I am kind of hoping that those involved are brought to justice. However, I want to say I am kind of skeptical of this. It's kind of a sketchy story.
For one thing, I am not sure of what happened that night (or early morning) when a Greater Dayton RTA bus driver got shot. I do know that the racist right is stirred by the event.
It's "almost" a miracle that the man survived a stabbing and shooting. I mean he was on a Lakeview Avenue in Dayton, Ohio on Route 8 heading towards the Westown Transit Center. Something happened to his electric trolley. He would exit his bus and in less than a minute three Black men would confront him.
According to the victim, he heard the three men say that they're "polar bear" hunting. I guess this was suppose to be a "gang initiation".
So I guess the driver got into a confrontation with the individual holding a gun. I guess three shots were fired.
One shot managed to get the bus driver in the leg. Two other slugs were in his chest. Somehow, The Message, a moderate pocket Bible saved the driver from getting a chest wound. The victim, Rickey Wagoner said he wrestled the gun away from the shooter, but he was stabbed by another in the left arm.
He finished his route and contacted the RTA and Dayton Police.
The racist right is already homing on the story. Kookspiracy far right website Prison Planet (hosted by Crazy Jones) has already made the news buzz. World Nut Daily and its prime racial agitator Asshat Colin Flaherty are gleefully running with it.
Somehow its going to be talked about on the racial shit holes. It's going to be on Breitfart and Loserville in the coming days. I bet ya money, one agitator will talk about it.
Five reasons to why I think it's sketchy.
1) Did the driver call dispatch?
I don't know if the bus driver failed to contact the RTA Dispatch about the trolleybus being disabled upon route. I don't want to say that its not usual that a trolleybus breaks down. The driver usually would exit the vehicle to straighten out the pulley to connect back to the wiring. But somehow I would have thought the driver would have called support and remain on the bus.
2) Lakeview Avenue at the 1900 block is pretty quiet.
There's no houses on that stretch of road. Lakeview Avenue was shortened about 2000 feet because of a right of way for the James H. McGee Boulevard extension. Many homes and old businesses were demolished.
Lakview Avenue is a neighborhood watch area. There hasn't been a major crime on this road in almost 15 years. The speed limit on the street in a residential neighborhood is 35 mph.
“It’s isolated and nothing’s coming down here,” said Mary Brooks who tells the Dayton Daily News.
Brooks lives on the 1800 block of Lakeview and runs a hair business in the same structure. Brooks’ home is one of the closest residences to the scene.
Not much goes on on Lakeview these days, said 75-year-old Bob Park, who owns a warehouse located on the 1900 block of Lakeview Avenue, which is the only building in the immediate vicinity of the scene. Park visits the property every day, but said he was not present during the alleged attack.
According to the victim, he heard the three men say that they're "polar bear" hunting. I guess this was suppose to be a "gang initiation".
So I guess the driver got into a confrontation with the individual holding a gun. I guess three shots were fired.
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| Victim claims three Black men with bandanas attacked him. |
One shot managed to get the bus driver in the leg. Two other slugs were in his chest. Somehow, The Message, a moderate pocket Bible saved the driver from getting a chest wound. The victim, Rickey Wagoner said he wrestled the gun away from the shooter, but he was stabbed by another in the left arm.
He finished his route and contacted the RTA and Dayton Police.
The racist right is already homing on the story. Kookspiracy far right website Prison Planet (hosted by Crazy Jones) has already made the news buzz. World Nut Daily and its prime racial agitator Asshat Colin Flaherty are gleefully running with it.
Somehow its going to be talked about on the racial shit holes. It's going to be on Breitfart and Loserville in the coming days. I bet ya money, one agitator will talk about it.
Five reasons to why I think it's sketchy.
1) Did the driver call dispatch?
I don't know if the bus driver failed to contact the RTA Dispatch about the trolleybus being disabled upon route. I don't want to say that its not usual that a trolleybus breaks down. The driver usually would exit the vehicle to straighten out the pulley to connect back to the wiring. But somehow I would have thought the driver would have called support and remain on the bus.
2) Lakeview Avenue at the 1900 block is pretty quiet.
There's no houses on that stretch of road. Lakeview Avenue was shortened about 2000 feet because of a right of way for the James H. McGee Boulevard extension. Many homes and old businesses were demolished.
Lakview Avenue is a neighborhood watch area. There hasn't been a major crime on this road in almost 15 years. The speed limit on the street in a residential neighborhood is 35 mph.
“It’s isolated and nothing’s coming down here,” said Mary Brooks who tells the Dayton Daily News.
Brooks lives on the 1800 block of Lakeview and runs a hair business in the same structure. Brooks’ home is one of the closest residences to the scene.
Not much goes on on Lakeview these days, said 75-year-old Bob Park, who owns a warehouse located on the 1900 block of Lakeview Avenue, which is the only building in the immediate vicinity of the scene. Park visits the property every day, but said he was not present during the alleged attack.
Park, however, said he has had no problems in about 15 years, and the area is fairly safe. He said he has good relationships with the neighbors, and he was dismayed to hear about the violent encounter.
“It’s really shocking that he could have been shot right here,” he said. “I think there are a lot of worse places on the east side than right here.”
The DeSoto Bass Apartments are a government funded housing unit. That is the closet area near Lakeview Avenue. That area carries a large amount of crime but usually it's Black on Black crime.
3) The victim declines to talk to the press about his survival.
Some people wouldn't want to speak to the press after being a survivor of a shooting. I know me personally, I wouldn't want the press to interview me in case the individuals could look me up on the internet and find my residence.
And the reasons for the press asking for a statement is the fact the victim claimed the Bible saved him.
That sensational stuff that drives Last Place News (CNN), Obama News (MSNBC) and Loserville (Fox News) to the area. Local junk food media is already making it a national event because of the potential to drive ratings and division among residents.
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| This is the type of stuff Collin Flaherty relishes in. |
Earlier this year RTA managed to bring the bus to Beavercreek's retail complex. With three measly stops on Pentagon Boulevard and a nearly 120 minute waiting time, RTA got a small victory. The residents of Beavercreek are ready to have their "I TOLD YOU SO" signs at the corner of Pentagon and North Fairfield Road. This event could rile the residents of the staunchly conservative suburb.
I remember Ashley Todd, Bethany Storro and Susan Smith. These three women who managed to rile up the racist right with events they've pulled out their asses. Todd, a John McCain campaign volunteer tried to ruin Barack Obama. While given an assignment in Pittsburgh, she would be doing field registration. She would stir the racist right with a story of a robber who created a backwards B in her face and claim the robber wanted to show her that BARACK was going to win.
Storro was a partially deaf woman from Washington claimed a woman threw acid in her face. She was getting sympathy from the nation. When the FBI decided that the story wasn't adding up, Storro confessed that she put drain cleaner on her face and scarred herself.
Susan Smith of South Carolina managed to build this story of a Black man kidnapping her two children. The woman was in a divorce with her husband and was dating another guy at the time. Smith wanted to start a new life with this guy and lied to him about being a mother. So in order to keep this lie going, she would take her vehicle and drive it to a lake near her home. She currently facing life in the iron college.
One too many times, a racial hoaxer would concoct a story about an alleged Black man committing a crime upon a White person. Usually these stories play upon the racist right. They already believe Black people are "natural born criminals".
Rickey Wagoner is a 10 year driver for Greater Dayton RTA. He's been a dedicated and dutiful employee, Greater Dayton Regional Transit Executive Director Mark Donaghy said.
Wagoner was released from Miami Valley Hospital Tuesday afternoon. He ducked the cameras after being let out of the backdoor.
4) Description of suspects.
In the video being displayed by the Dayton Daily News and Dayton Police, it shows that Wagoner leaving his bus. In about 40 seconds you hear a popping sound and then two more. Then of course Wagoner coming back on the bus cussing up a storm. The bus is equipped with sound and you can hear mostly him.
Wagoner, who is white, described the attackers as young black males wearing dark blue bandannas that covered their faces. He said they were likely in their late teens and fled in a dark-colored 1990s model Ford. No arrests have been made.
Wagoner told investigators he believed the shooting might have been a gang initiation.
Did they follow the bus?
Or did this random event happen upon a five minute frame?
5) On the edge of town.
Some of my White co-workers will not go over to West Dayton because of perceived fears of being attacked by an individual. They avoid the city all together because of what the media tells them.
This city is still suffering from White flight. Many conservatives are attacking the cities because they believe that Democratic leaders are causing economic turmoils because of "da gubmint" and "da leeches" milking off it.
Often times you hear conservative agitators rail on about "da gubmint" being in the business of America. They hate that. So they want the Republicans to win back control so they can be in "your business". They would rather see economic poverty erased by cutting off the safety net.
The poor, the disabled, the mentally insane and children better get to work. Because Republicans believe that too many of "you people" are milking "da gubmint". So you better pick up an application and get ya ass back to work.
Dayton, Ohio along with Detroit, Cincinnati, Flint, Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Birmingham, Atlanta, Greensboro, Jacksonville, and Stockton are often attacked for being Black majority cities with high crime rates. Mayors are trying to dismiss the negative perceptions of being dangerous cities.
They often would encourage community outreach and often encourage neighborhood watch zones.
Many in the area are hoping that this incident would net arrests. Although it was early in the morning not too many had an opportunity to see what went on, I can testify that someone out there knows what happen.
If you do have information about the crime contact the Dayton Police at 937-333-COPS