San Francisco man caught on video throwing eggs and racial slurs at Asian bus passengers
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San Francisco police are searching for a man who was caught on video throwing raw eggs at Asian passengers on a bus and using racial slurs.
Michelle Young was visiting the Northern California town last weekend when she and others on a bus were met by a hysterical man who began yelling at them.
The man allegedly called Young and another Asian girl along with her ‘stupid Asian bitch’ before others intervened and told him to get off the bus.
After the man got off, he continued to yell from outside the bus and threw eggs at the open windows.
The incident is now under investigation as another woman has come forward saying she was also attacked by the same man on a bus in December.
This Is The Man Who Egged Passengers On And Off A San Francisco Bus Last Week
The unidentified man reportedly called passenger Michelle Young and another Asian woman a ‘stupid Chinese bitch’ according to the woman’s tweets.
Young shared the first video of the incident on Twitter on February 16.
San Francisco a moment ago. The guy with a lot of balls came over and started yelling at me and the Asian girl next to me “stupid Chinese bitch”. A man on the bus came in and the guy started throwing eggs at him. The guy got off the bus and threw eggs out the window. We all have eggs in our hair!!’ Young wrote in his tweet.
“Stop, you don’t need to do that,” the fellow traveler is heard responding to the man’s antics.
“Fuck you,” the assailant replies. Do you want me to throw you an egg?
The video has been viewed 90,000 times on the social media app and shows a man with two cartons of eggs scolding passengers while holding the birds.
“It’s always unnerving to be the target of any kind of racial attack and one that includes any kind of threat of violence,” Young said. KRON.
In a follow-up tweet, the woman shared additional video of the incident, showing the man continuing his racist attack from outside the bus.
“She started throwing eggs through the window, towards the window and then the latter ran it over the side … she stopped when she saw me and threw it right at me in the window,” Young told the Bay Area outlet. .
The man appears to walk away and talk to himself before turning around and opening the crates to throw more eggs at the passengers.
“Uh oh, close the window,” one person is heard saying as he runs to the bus with an egg in hand.
As dire as the situation was, Young tweeted that a bus passenger jokingly said, “At the price of eggs!” after the man had left.
At one point, the man throws an egg at a passenger who had stepped in to stop his attacks.
Young posted a photo of one of the eggs that was thrown on the bus on his Twitter page.
This is Michelle Young, who was egged on a San Francisco bus last week.
A broken eggshell is found on one of the seats of the San Francisco city bus in a photo released
At one point, the man appeared to walk away from the bus and the passengers
However, he turned around to continue his attack as Young continued filming.
The man continued to harass the passengers even after they got off the bus.
The man repeatedly hit the windows of the bus. This is a photo showing the splattered egg.
Young said she spoke to the “nice guy” who intervened and he had told her “better me than you.”
“There are wonderful people in this world too,” Young tweeted.
The woman who was visiting San Francisco for less than 48 hours concluded her Twitter thread by stating that she had spoken with the San Francisco police and they were investigating the incident.
In addition to the police intervention, the San Francisco Metropolitan Transit Authority apologized to Young and said they are investigating the event.
‘This is unacceptable in our vehicles. We’re sorry this happened to you. File a report with us to prevent incidents like this from happening. We will have staff investigate and investigate,” the SFMTA said in a tweet.
After Young shared her video, another Asian woman came forward claiming she was attacked by the same man on a bus in December.
Wendy Zhang also took a video and shared it with KRON.
“He started yelling racist slurs against Asians, especially Chinese people,” Zhang said.
The man has been linked to another incident involving a racist attack on a San Francisco bus.
This is Wendy Zhang, who says the man responsible for the February attack also berated her and threw food at her on a San Francisco bus in December.
Zhang shared a video of his attack with local media in the Bay Area, showing a man throwing cheese at him.
In a statement, SFMTA officials said they are “doing everything possible” to stop the attacks.
We are committed to doing everything we can to stop the racist attacks against the AAPI community that have been on the rise in recent years. Any harassment or abuse against our passengers and staff is absolutely unacceptable,” SFMTA said.
Both Young and Zhang said they have faced anti-Asian rhetoric in the past and hope it doesn’t “get worse” in the future.
DailyMail.com has reached out to officials with the San Francisco Police Department for an update, but did not receive a response by time of publication.