SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco police and the SFMTA are investigating after a man on a Muni bus yelled racial slurs at passengers and threw eggs at them. He’s allegedly done it before with a different food item.
Michelle Young snapped photos on her whirlwind 30-hour trip to San Francisco. She calls herself a transit enthusiast and even has a website that documents her travels.
“I do make it an effort in any city to make sure that I try the transit system and I really love buses,” said Young.
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She says it’s the best way to see a city, but her love of buses turned into a hate-filled ride on Thursday.
On the 38 bus somewhere around Geary and Divisadero, she says a man started throwing eggs and racial slurs.
“He starts with stupid Chinese expletive,” said Young.
Young says he was clearly looking for a fight.
“I could tell just from his body gesture and the way he was speaking that he was unstable,” said Young.
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She says another passenger stepped in.
“He said something to the effect of ‘Stop, you don’t need to do that,”‘ she said. “I thanked him and he said better me than you which was a really nice thing to say.”
She says he took the brunt of the eggs.
“He ends up throwing it at a pretty fast pace, almost like a baseball,” said Young.
Even off the bus, the man continued to hurl eggs at the windows as passengers closed them, many including Young with egg now in their hair.
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“And then he comes running from the corner back to the bus and when he sees me he throws it straight into the window,” said Young.
Sadly, she says this is the third time in a third city since the pandemic that she’s experienced hatred like this.
“Asian Americans, we’re on much higher alert than we’ve ever been and so it has made me rethink how I move around the city, which is sad…
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