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Police: Man beats woman when she asks him to move over on subway-station bench

Transit Police report arresting a man they say beat a woman on a Red Line platform at Downtown Crossing last month "sim5ply because she wanted to sit down in a location that was in close proximity to her attacker and asked if he could move over slightly."

Steven Colla, 51 and white, also used a racial epithet during his beating of the black woman around 3 p.m. on Sept. 15, police say.

Colla was arrested at Downtown Crossing today and is expected to be arraigned tomorrow in Boston Municipal Court on a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, police say.

Innocent, etc.

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I always hope when I get called for jury duty that I'll have the pleasure of sending someone like this to the can.

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This is one of those times when I think humanity is going down the toilet

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I expect nothing less from this site!

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Or did you just start spitting after that word? The reason to mention his race is because police said he also screamed a racial epithet at the black woman he was beating.

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Well, would it make the epithet any more or less offensive if he were another race?

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a racial epithet. Since you decided to go there, this white man screaming a epithet to the black woman is a racial epithet because they are certain epithet's when used to insult another person, are linked to race, and, in polite society, are deemed offensive.

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epithet epithet epithet, epithet epithet epithet epithet.

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way to not answer my question

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Try this on for size: I was attacked on a 39 bus because I wouldn't let the woman cut in front of me and a dozen-plus other people who'd been standing out in the freezing cold for 15 minutes at Forest Hills. Soon as the bus showed up, she strolled out of the station and then tried to cut the line.

Soon as I tapped my charlie card, she slammed into me from behind and sent me flying forward and I hit the floor of the bus, hard.

I had barely hit the floor when she said "fuckin' cracka, know yo place."

The driver, also black, thought it was absolutely hilarious.

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poor little bunny

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Black victim of white-on-black racist assault and battery: we need to have a national conversation about race.
White victim of black-on-white racist assault and battery: victim shaming and derision.

You're better than that, Swirly.

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NOT!

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Interesting that you never see these posts or people coming forward with times they've been attacked and called a cracker when the person in question is black. But a white perpetrator? You better bet somebody will want to have a "why do we need a national discussion on race?" discussion.

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first, the nastier side of human nature is work here.
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Secondly, nobody, regardless of race, ethnicity, color or gender, is immune to displaying this kind of nastiness, hatred and prejudice.'

Thirdly, anybody who watches this kind of an incident and things it's funny is equally vicious, no matter who they are.

Fourth, it means that incivility, meanness and hatred and racism are all still alive and well in our society.

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Cut his balls off in a public ceremony in Boston Common.

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Cool story, bro.

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Sincere question.

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I'm not autistic, I'm just overwhelmed by the waves of coolness emanating from you.

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Why did it take so long for the public to find out about this brutal assault and why isn't he being charged with a hate crime? Can you imagine how bad it will be when the T is open all night?.

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Of a city accessible past 1 AM!

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Not to minimize the main reason for this story, which is absolutely ridiculously horrendous, but....

from whom did you get the crazy idea that the T will ever run all night?

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The ones where haters and crazies pushed people in front of trains? I seem to recall they were during normal daylight hours.

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