That's Some Crazy Subway Wilding

The unofficial first and second rules of sane subway rides might be "Do not talk to anyone" and "Don't look anyone in the eye." The Smoking Gun found a crazy video of an adult being beat up by a group of teenage girls on an A train. The adult, who is white, was somehow roped into a shouty exchange with the girls, who are black, and high school student Kadejra Holmes filmed the exchange, which culminates the man getting a beat down.

As seen in the clip, the group of girls taunted and threatened the seated male rider as the train moved from the Ralph Avenue station to the Rockaway Avenue stop. As members of the group inched closer--and threatened to strike him--the man remained calm, asking the girls, "Why are you arguing? Please stop, stop." As the train pulled into Broadway Junction, a girl off-camera could be heard predicting, "They gonna hit him, I know it." Within moments, the man, who had stood up, was shoved down and pummeled by members of the gang. As the tape ends, the victim--who was also struck in the face with a plastic soda bottle during the assault--is continuing to be struck by two of the girls.

Holmes told the Smoking Gun she was not part of the group who beat up the man, but then pulled the video from YouTube afterwards. The Smoking Gun has the video on its site and notes that Holmes originally named it "jump up to get beat down," perhaps a reference to Brand Nubian's "Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down" (the video "featured members of the rap group throttling various unfortunate opponents, two of whom get their bloody comeuppance in a subway car").

We recently saw a woman slap a male rider on the face, believing he deliberately pushed her (it was a crowded train), and have heard that an inquiry over a subway seat led to a woman-on-woman beating. Yes, folks - subway ridership is at all-time record highs.

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By Jen Chung in News on December 5, 2007 1:59 PM

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oneartykid

What disgusting behavior for young girls. Teenagers in general are a plague-terrorizing society with their bullshit angst. I've never met one that I liked, even when I was one. It's no wonder we're trying kids as adults now. Screw Al Sharpton, he's a fucking embarrassment to humanity-black or otherwise.

oneartykid

What disgusting behavior for young girls. Teenagers in general are a plague-terrorizing society with their bullshit angst. I've never met one that I liked, even when I was one. It's no wonder we're trying kids as adults now. Screw Al Sharpton, he's a fucking embarrassment to humanity-black or otherwise.

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FRANZ187

IT WAS NOT STAGED !!!! I KNOW THE VICTIM!!!!

#101 and 105 are both either concspiracy theorist of in denail that shyt like this does happen....... I actualy know the victim first hand..he does not know who the women and he has nothing to gain from the attack.

I have worked with him and known him for over 7 years.. .He is just a non violent person who paid the price for his gentil demeanor.

Also he is spanish not white...while it still can be concidered a hate crime lets get the facts straight

If it was me I would have been in jail for violence against women, an 2 types of hate crimes, one for hitting a black person and second for hitting a lesbian

demonwitz

Oh the poor, disenfranchised, misunderstood, youths! Let them live in the filth and squalor of the projects while they wear $150 sneakers, $35 baseball caps, and $300 jackets! Where do they get the money for that? Let's go out and beat the shit out of each other seems to be the preferred method of dealing with our angst. Oh the horror of riding the A train! We must assault those who appear to have more than us! Here's an idea, get an education, stop idolizing the convict, jailbird mentality and you too can escape this bullshit! Wait, though... We have cut back on programs that tell you this. We forget to tell you to think for yourselves... I don't want to watch this shit again. I can get on any train at 2:00PM and see the deliquents in big saggy pants with new sneakers with their chests puffed out 'cause they with their homies, acting all too tough. Your accomodations at Rikers await you.

JenChungsBaby

So what's scarier, a pack of teenage lesbian afro-animals on the A train or a young midwestern white boy in an Omaha shopping mall?

Tim N.

#101 is right.

People, it was an act. Watch it again... there's at least a half a dozen spots where this guy could push through them and get off the train. It was staged to get the reactions of the other riders. So, mission accomplished there. Nice job scaring the hell out of people just trying to get home. Art for art's sake.

Tim N.

#101 is right.

People, it was an act. Watch it again... there's at least a half a dozen spots where this guy could push through them and get off the train. It was staged to get the reactions of the other riders. So, mission accomplished there. Nice job scaring the hell out of people just trying to get home. Art for art's sake.

Tim N.

#101 is right.

People, it was an act. Watch it again... there's at least a half a dozen spots where this guy could push through them and get off the train. It was staged to get the reactions of the other riders. So, mission accomplished there. Nice job scaring the hell out of people just trying to get home. Art for art's sake.

Potosi

1) Walk to the next car.

2) Ignore them. Do not engage them.

3) Show no fear.

4) If they touch you, beat they're fucking asses. You inflict as much damage to the people attacking you as you possibly can. Defend your self, don't cower in a little ball.

bornbrednewyorker

This is all staged.

rarelement

Props to Ozone Park! I used to have Snapple bottles thrown at me from the opposite platform at stations like Utica and ENY when sitting by a window on the A train. This was right after the Howard Beach incident and riding the A train through ENY was not fun for a white kid. Seems nothing really changes except for the fact that some of these kids are really getting out of control on the trains. You HAVE to avoid certain times of the morning when going to work to miss throngs of cussing, fighting, screaming animals.

nicspa

just wanted to share a few observations...ALL of the people arguing with this guy were FEMALES...yes, even the one eating with the hat on...

and when she referred to FLK, that is a lesbian femme "gang"...which is also associated with AGK...

no not a member, i've just heard about them...

I found it strange that just as the action starts, the videotaping stops...did the person holding the camera jump in...probably...

Rocknrope

Guess you were never a teen BouncingSoul. Or perhaps you were one of those who was constantly harassed.

Bouncing Soul

All teenagers need to be caged and sedated until they can learn to act like functioning human beings and not petty thugs who belong in Rikers.

Every time I get on a train around the time high schools are being let out, there's always a group pushing and shouting and causing trouble. They act like they have never been in public before.

I've even seen a group get so out of hand with the pushing and shoving that one of them fell onto a baby carriage. If I was that mother I would have beat that teenager. At that age all they know is how to harass people and they think it's funny.

A majority of teens need to follow through on those thoughts of suicide.

JacqueMehoff

it's all over the news,

they're looking for the victim and want him to come forward. odd that they clearly zoom in on the victim and not the perpetrators.

they should zoom in on the doo rag perp,

in other news, unemployed fired white boy goes berserk with a rifle, yep, that oughta do some damage and it did. killed 8.

you want damage, go with a rifle, one shot one kill.

and don't write checks your body can't cash.

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moneda

Hahahaha.

Steven

^

Nice Joke.

DaLata

Steven: "What is with the black community and violence? All it seems like they do is fight with each other and other people. Go get an education and make something of yourself."

is that a direct quote from Mandy Moore? did she say that in that movie where she was banging the two dudes at the same time and in the next scene she walked in on her mom having her first orgasm with the father one of the dudes she was banging?

DaLata

0:07 guy in frame takes seat as girls exit camera to continue argument

0:10 guy moves over to two kids to purse mild pleasantries but one kid decides to ignore him and sit on the other kids lap

0:25 guy motions to take off jack but puts it back on

0:42 the girl at the pole says "this is why you should not drink" to the guy

(confused and heated arguing erupts)

1:48 the girl says something sarcastic about how sober the guy appears proceeded by commentary about him preferring to smoke outside with his friends

2:27 girls emphasizes to guy that, no, "maybe she don't want to sit down. maybe i want to stand up. and. look. at. you."

2:33 guy says something to kid with hat and delicious take-out box, seen in prior footage enjoying his food, says "i don't give a f**k what you do" to guy sitting down and then exits fram

2:40 girl with doo-rag points out the "stuff" around the seated guy's mouth which another girl at the pole identifies as "tainted p***"

2:47 close up on guy's side profile. mild attraction and sympathy is stimulated in reaction to eye-candy looks not evidenced in previous frontal footage

2:55 girl with doo-rag reappears and inquires as to which girl the guy would like to "drop him first"

3:14 girl at pole asks that her colleagues "shut up" so that she may properly "introduce herself"

3:20 girl states name but sound is inaudible due to poor sound quality and sound track rumbling. further examination reveled the name as something to the effect of "FLK Freaks Monkey, mmmkay?"

3:27 another non-appealing frontal shot of guy's face who asks "why are you arguing" which girl at poles retorts "do you want to get up"

3:30 guy with cap returns, having finished his meal, and waves an almost empty soda bottle in the face of seated guy. seated guy notes lack of beverage in bottles and pushes guy with cap's arm away.

3:34 guy seated stands up and sits back down and is told to shut up buy girl off frame which causes again-seated-guy to raise eyebrows.

3:53 girl with black & white scarf promises to girl with white doo-rag that she will "f**k up nobody"

3:56 seated guy stands and either falls back to the seat or is pushed there by girl with white-doo rag

4:00 almost empty bottle reappears in frame to tap seated guy quickly on head

4:02 seated guy puts up a fist but quickly changes his mind and assumes a defense position by covering his head

4:07 girl with doo-rag reappears and makes several slapping swings while seated guy figures wraps his arms around the girl's thighs and buries his head in her crotch

mildly entertaining but not nearly as headling as it's portrayed.