Two arrested after assault on TriMet bus driver

The only reason you racists dont believe its a service animal is because they are BLACK.  I believe them.  I really do.

I got fed up representing clients like these two individuals. The lack of remorse and responsibility. The last straw was when a gang member started blaming me for his self made problems. He's in the pen now. Lost more cases than I'd like to admit to.

LOOK!! It's dumb and dumber!

Where's Rev Jess and Pimp daddy Sharpton now?

What's with Afircan-American's and violence on the Max trains? This is yet another reason among many reasons most people in Vancouver DON'T want the light rail to come across the river. We will start getting Portland's problems.

These boneheads won't serve a day in jail. 

What kind of dog? A service yorkie

I wonder if punching a triimet driver helps with street cred?

Most real cities with real public transportation have signs posted as you enter the bus that assaulting a bus driver is a Class C Felony, and will be prosecuted as such. But in Portland you can be fined up to $250.00 lmfao.

According to TriMet codes, "No person shall engage in harassment or intimidation through a course of conduct, including violent ... conduct ... which places another person in reasonable fear of imminent physical harm." Offenders can be excluded from TriMet properties and fined up to $250.

Yo yo yo dawg. Are they rappers? They.just keepin it real

Although people are entitled to their opinions, I admit to being shocked by some of the posts regarding this article.  Regardless of race, one man assaulted another and deserves to be held accountable by the full extent of the law.

I wonder if I'll get banned if I just made a list of all racial slurs right here.  For the most part, racial slurs are made by white folks right?  So if the minorities start using them, does that make it part of the vocabulary?  

Punching anyone is wrong.  Punching someone who just drove your bum butt (I assume that in this part of the country, if you ride the bus, you are either a business person or just can't afford a car) is doubly wrong.  These two hard ganstas needs to be put away, or at least kiss the foot of the drive and beg for forgiveness and eat a load of humble pie.

Here's more of my rant: There is a strange relationship between black people and service industry employees.Being in the restaurant business for over three decades,I swear it's not some b.s that I'm making up but *sometimes* they can be the most difficult customers to have to deal with.There has been a systemic cultural failure along the way.Manners and respect seem to be non existent. there's the subject of tips...non existent as well a lot of the time.

I never got a comment pending notice before.I didn't think my comment was even close to other things that are being said.In a nutshellI was explaining about working in the service industry and people perpetuating stereotypes.

I can't believe how sick some of the comments are on this board.  Sick!

So the young one punched the driver in the face for being questioned about the dog.  Which causes the older one to get arrested. I predict that someone is going to get the hell beat out of them while in the slammer. 

Gosh, what model citizens they look like and are part of the Grape Street Crips in case anyone wants to know. Losers with much territory to gain in the PDX Area. Until there is open season - with no bag limit - placed on gangsters in the area virtually no one is safe....

I hate public transportation.Especially Tri-met.After work late at night with a pocketful of tips and my bartending "costume" still on I feel like a sitting target.(thats why I conceal carry)I hate the annoying riff raff that can't mind their own business to save their lives as well as loud drunks,people's annoying rap music blaring from their earphones.screaming kids.I do have to pay a lot for gas and parking downtown but its a luxury that I will take advantage ofas long as I can afford it.

I think it's weird that everyone is debating the legal aspects of service animals, when the real issue is that these two buttwipes punched a bus driver in the face for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

I think if you have a true service animal you should have to carry a special license saying so.  I think the whole concept is way over used claiming their pets are service animals.

"The two men claimed it was a service animal...."

The one thing I'd believe is these two pieces of human debris have probably contacted one of those ambulance-chasing daytime TV attorneys who promises to get you Social Security Disability benefits without any cost to you up front..  All you gotta do is be chronically unemployed (easy when you support yourself through crime) and claim to have some sort of mental health condition, whether or not it's actually debilitating.  For young able-bodied thugs, nothing beats a parasitic lifestyle and subsidizing their criminal activity with some nice SSD benefits...  Which is exactly why SSD and SSI should be available only to elderly people and people with no record of violent felonies.  Just MHO.

Two more of NE finest !

That's the frustrating thing about the "service animal" law..  You can ask if the animal is a service animal and what it is specifically trained to do, but cannot ask for any verification or evidence that it actually IS a service animal.  Of course these turds said it was a service animal.  I work in a public building, and turds like these are always coming in with service pit bulls, service snakes, service marmosets, etc.  Typically they say the animal is trained to relieve their anxiety, as the animals obviously have no talents of any kind.  Turds know perfectly well no one can challenge them, other than to ask if it's a service animal.  The whole thing is a big joke.

I wonder where they stole the dog.

I am surprised they didn't let them take their service dog to jail with them.

Service animals are BS!  If you can't leave your home without your animal....don't leave your fricken home!