Boston Globe | By Brian Ballou and John R. Ellement | March 13, 2013 The attorney for an 18-year-old Roxbury man accused of participating in a group attack Saturday on an MBTA bus driver said today that her client punched the driver, but only as an instinctive reaction after he, too, came under attack by …
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Mar 12 2013
T’s drivers feel especially vulnerable after attack
Boston Globe | Meghan E. Irons | March 12, 2013 Though the T has installed surveillance cameras on a third of its buses, and Transit Police sometimes guard the subway, drivers say that is not enough to stop an attack. The weekend mob attack on an MBTA bus driver has shattered a fragile sense of security …
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Mar 12 2013
Editorial: Attack on MBTA bus driver highlights need for more protections
Boston Globe | MARCH 12, 2013 The senseless attack on an MBTA bus driver in Dorchester by a group of teenagers Saturday should be a call to action to step up protections for vulnerable T employees. Police report 22 cases of assaults or threats against T drivers so far this year — an alarming statistic …
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