Brookline Hills

A Boston woman used a knife to threaten passengers on an outbound Riverside trolley until she was removed by MBTA and Brookline Police at Brookline Hills last night, the T reports.

Transit Police say Madina Clayton, 52, sat across from a man on a trolley around 9:45 p.m. and took out a folding knife, which she began opening and closing while staring at him:

The victim became uncomfortable and stood up to change seats, Clayton also got up from her seat pointed the knife at the victim and stated "Are you looking at this M***** *****R !" Another witness stated Clayton attempted to engage another male (separate from above) in conversation, when the male got up to change seats Clayton followed him with the knife opened. Other witnesses stated Clayton "haphazardly" swung the knife at yet another male victim as he was disemabrking the trolley.

Seems that despite today's cool temps, a D trolley still managed to die this afternoon, at Brookline Hills. Dave tweets he was on that trolley - and that the T kept the passengers locked up in it for 30 minutes before it finally crawled into Brookline Hills and people were let out (to wait for the shuttle buses the T eventually started running in place of trolleys.