Police: Woman gets punched in the head for daring to try to move another woman's purse off a Red Line seat

That was disgusting of Campbell to do something like that. The 71 year old woman was within her rights to move Campbell's purse so that she could sit down. I hope Campbell gets tried for, charged with, and jailed for assault.

WOOF WOOF WOOF

I would have just sat down on her bag.

But your action may have some adverse repercussions.

Usually, I'll stand fast and see if they move the bag. f not, and I'm on the commuter rail, I get the conductor (if there is no more seats available). If someone is still not moving it, I'll say something like "Gee, does your bag have a ticket? No, than please move it." Most people will move the bag on first ask, although I may get what I call the "sighers", those who sigh when asked to move their bags. I usually ask "Is something wrong? I heard you sigh..." just to tweak em.

But most folks are fine. This poor lady just got a bad angry apple.

Playing like that means that person has tons of discipline and self-control.

Our local version has neither.

"Jada Campbell" is an unusual name? Really?

Except the older lady didn't even ask this woman to give up her seat--she asked her to give up her BAG'S seat!!! There shouldn't have to be a law for that...that's just common decency.

Are we going to put T officers on every car to watch for this?

How do you prove that someone's able-bodied vs disabled, especially given that some disabilities aren't visible?

Maybe it needs to be mandatory.

And just how you propose such a law actually be enforced?

The T's Accessibility FAQ explains why they can't require people to give up seats.

Basically, there are plenty of people with disabilities that aren't visibly obvious, and the T can't reasonably expect people to explain or prove their disabilities when requesting a priority seat. That information is private and personal. That opens it up to exploitation by people who aren't actually disabled. If the T can't require people to prove that they are disabled, then people would abuse the system by claiming they're disabled just to get a seat, or claim they're disabled so they don't have to give up the seat. It opens a huge can of worms for the T.

So the legally safer option is just to rely on basic human decency to get people to give up their seats. The vast majority of the time it works, but of course sometimes it doesn't. If it were legally required, these kinds of incidents would still happen, only the assault would end up happening to a T employee instead or in addition to the requesting passenger. And it would likely delay trains, since there is not usually a T employee on every platform at all times, meaning they'd have to hold the train until a T employee could get there to make the person move.

You clearly have never worked in retail or any other customer-facing job if you think the younger generation is more self-entitled.

Try telling a millennial and a baby boomer that they're going to be subjected to a minor inconvenience, and guess which one is more likely to get irrationally upset? The boomer, almost every time.