You Wanna Fight Like A Man, You Go To Jail Like One! Uppercutting Bus Driver And Victim Facing Criminal Charges

October 18th, 2012 - By Brande Victorian

Source: getwititmagazine.com

It was all (inappropriate) fun and games last Friday when a video of a Cleveland RTA bus driver upper-cutting an unruly female passenger on his route went viral. But now things have gotten pretty serious. According to The Smoking Gun, both individuals are now facing criminal charges.

Prosecutors today filed misdemeanor criminal charges against both the driver and female passenger who fought last month on a Cleveland bus, a confrontation that included a vicious uppercut that was captured on a passenger’s cell phone.

Driver Artis Hughes, 59, was charged with assault, while passenger Shi’dea Lane, 25, was hit with a disorderly conduct rap.

The criminal cases, filed in Shaker Heights Municipal Court, were lodged one week after video of the September 18 bus incident began circulating online…

Witnesses told cops that Lane appeared “drunk” and became verbally abusive to Hughes after she failed to immediately pay her fare. Hughes told investigators that he “protected myself” after Lane “grabbed me in the throat and spit on me in the face.”

Hughes remains suspended without pay from his RTA job, according to an agency spokesperson. He faces a maximum of six months in jail and a $1000 fine if convicted of the assault count.

Lane’s lesser charge carries a maximum of 30 days in custody and a $250 fine.

Well, I guess this explains why Shidea wouldn’t answer certain questions under the advisement of her lawyer during that Fox interview. But from a look at her Twitter timeline she doesn’t appear to be too worried about this situation. Early this morning she tweeted:

*Insert exaggerated SIGH*

Yesterday, Shidea also said she was just coming back from the doctor and had to get her mouth wired for a week. I’m curious how she was still able to talk to the media. Something tells me that uppercut didn’t teach her much of a lesson about running those gums.

Do you think both parties should be charged in this case?

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  • J.C. Thompson

    Its was wrong 4 him to hit her. That’s what happens when u push a man too far. Unless you really think you can beat a man up, watch ya mouth dummy. #DontActBadThenActLikeAVictim

  • jeighjoans

    Yes. If anyone is charged, they both should be charged. Hers should be a simple assault.. and his should be Aggravated Assault and Battery.

  • cocoa

    This young Lady was very wrong for provoking the bus driver, she was verbally disruptive, disrespectful, she hit the driver of the bus which could have cause an accident. And I am not for any man hitting a Woman, but everyone has a breaking point. She gets zero dollars, and suspension may constitute for the drivers insantity of striking her. She could not have been that hurt to have gotten back on bus, she was not affraid, she warned him to hit her. Give this Man back his job.
    There is so much disrespect among the younger generation now days. This is why many dont respect their elders, because too many people are giving them the right to disrespect. There is grown, growner, grownest. No your place in respecting your elders.

  • Milan

    Asbolutely NOT!!!! Lane should go straight to jail for her disrespectful actions and filthy mouth towards her elder. She REALLY hasn’t learned her lesson. The bus driver should press assult charges against her.

  • ilovemovies2

    Note to bus rider: Facebook can help and hurt ya, gurl . Add twitter to the mix and she got a recipe for “bad behavior gone wild” and no money. Po’ bus driver-suspended w/o pay and maybe jail. One question: Y’all Was it worth??? lol

  • arealist_lady

    no one knows what that driver was going thru at home or prior to her getting her rachet a** on the bus, some women just need to be uppercutted when you have no respect for the children and families riding this bus and putting everybody lives in danger and doing , all that cusing for what ? there is no telling who she offended with her language, she deserved everything thing she got, i wish he would have hit her again with the left , cause if that was my father , that uppercut would have been the last thing she needed to worry about, now she want to make tshirts- im positive she live in section 8 housing , this trick is rachet !

  • Jacquie Barbavian

    I don’t believe in a man hitting a woman or lady, but this female was neither! As a former bus driver, I empathize with this man! He was doing his job and she assaulted him! Bus driver face as much stress as Teachers, Police Officers and Firefighters! Their job is hard, honorable and stress filled! I wish he would not have uppercut her, BUT WHAT MAN IS GOING TO LET A FEMALE DISS HIM AND MAKE HIM FEEL LESS THAN A MAN IN PUBLIC OR BEHIND CLOSED DOORS! I would give him a warning and let him keep his job! She needs to grow up!

  • peoplearecrazy

    In my opinion, both should have been charged equally, well her more so than him but I do not believe he should have been fired. I believe the bus driver should have been suspended for a period of time but not fired. Again, I feel the wrong message has been sent from the CJ system. Not only did she start everything, she threw the first punch and threatened to get others involved. So, to me the message that is sent is: As person can hit someone first but if you re-act you can suffer a stiffer penalty (Looking at the situation legally, I can understand how they were charged but it is not right). She should not get a dime for this!!!!!. Lastly, as a black woman I was embarrassed as to how she conducted herself in public.

  • Dk

    She hit him first and Artis gets the assault charged. The evidence is on the video whats up with the justice?

  • JuicyT

    She shouldn’t have put her hands on him first. That’s women problem these days always hitting men then when the man hit them back they want people to feel sorry for them. Drop the charges. Apparently she ain’t too hurt making tshirts & bragging on social networks

  • Vanessa Hagans

    She should be ashamed of herself! She should also get the same sentence as the driver and more. She struck him first and spit on him. In cases like this, being a female should not matter. She is a pure fool for thinking she can make money from this. If anyone was late to work or late picking up their children and lost work time or have late fees, she should have to pay them back!

  • LucyLou

    No! he should not be charged in this case, he was defending his self , They need to give him, his job back, HELL with a RAISE plus back pay. She should be facing a maximum of six months in jail and a $1000 fine for the assault, That man was doing his job. She was wrong on so many levels,assault, disorderly conduct, failure to pay fare, endangering the life of other(lets not forget she hit him while he was driving the bus). At 25 years old she knows better and now she is trying to make money from this. she is still being IGNORANT..some body pray for her soul she is going to need it.

  • Kayo Halana Malie

    Yes, they both should be charged.

  • just saying

    The black man is a joke…..in the video we did not see her hit him, but we sure did see him. he should be in jail.

    • Pseudonym

      Watch the video again b/c I also missed it the first time. You actually do see her hit him.

  • Sharock5

    I would think that grabbing him by the throat and spitting in his face IS assault. His retaliation was excessive but, I can understand how he’d lose his temper. If the woman thinks she can benefit from acting like that, she is seriously deluded. Next time she hits the floor she might not be able to get back up.

  • MsShan

    I dont condone any type of violence, esp a man hitting a woman but even being a woman myself, i think she deserved getting popped in the mouth! Its one thing to run your mouth but its another to put your hands on someone. And spitting is an automatic a** whoppin be it you’re a man or woman….that should’ve been a charge of assault & battery w/o second thought! And the fact that she did all of this while he was driving other passangers should’ve been another charge of wreckless endangerment… Her charge is bogus! She better be glad he was 59 and not 29 or we’d be looking at clips of

    • Kayo Halana Malie

      You cannot be serious about stating you don’t condone violence and then go on to say that someone deserved to be hit. And he is just as guilty of reckless endangerment when he decided to argue with her as he drove the bus.

    • JP

      you on the money girl…..that spitting sh*t is an automatic beat down to destruction.

  • Tina

    Both were inexcusable but I must say, even as a woman I wanted to stand up and applaud that man smh…i would give it to that girl if I was tha judge…. but i’m mad that tha ppl on tha bus only got involved when he uppercutted her, y didn’t they stop tha madness she was doing to him?!

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000113041547 LaShannon Hunny Badger Davis

      Thats exactly what i was thinking! “Man, thats a female” was yelled and i was too through.

    • Kayo Halana Malie

      Why would you applaud such violence?

  • Elli

    He needs to appeal that. That was clear self defense. Matter a fact she needs to be the one with the assault charge. But she making a shirt. First of all why is her photo on the cover of this article? If it wasn’t for the content I wouldn’t never scrolled down. You people at madamnoire need to get it together. Then media is always 75% of why things go ary in this country. She is another reason why female equality is only a myth. She needed to be put down acting like a wild animal instead of a human being. If it were male on male they’d both be facing assault charges. The law is ridiculously unjust as always. Bad people always skimp out and learn nothing from their actions. She should also be barred from public transportation, put in an alcohol program and in animal rehab.

    • Kayo Halana Malie

      He can’t claim self-defense. If someone attacks you and you attack back, that is self- defense. It is NOT self-defense if someone attacks you, time passes, and you pursue them to attack them.

      • Bishop

        But time didn’t pass, you sound like someone in LA LA land

        • Kayo Halana Malie

          And you ‘sound’ like someone who clearly doesn’t understand what I am talking about.

  • klynn

    None of us were there, but when your job is to deal with the public you have to have patience. He should have called the police and had her removed from the bus. We can not take the law into our own hands. He took it on himself to make that decision, I’m sure it is not the policy of the bus service to put your hands on a pasenger. The woman was a unruley pasenger, there are certain procedures he should have followed, which he chose to ignore. You have to pay the cost to be the boss. I’m sure now, he believes it was not worth it.

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