Man targets Muslim woman with racist abuse then punches adjacent bus window
Man targets Muslim woman with racist abuse then punches adjacent bus window
A Muslim woman, who wears the hijab, described the racist abuse she faced from a man who stared at her and said out loud: “there are too many of these people” and “they need to go back to their countries” on a crowded bus in Bristol on July 22.
The woman consented for Tell MAMA to tell her story anonymously.
She added that a woman, who she believed was their partner, had told him to stop, to which the man laughed, adding that he ‘cannot be racist as he has a black television’.
When departing the bus, however, the man then punched the adjacent window to the Muslim woman with such force that it “shook”.
She then spoke to the driver who was, in her words, dismissive of her concerns and denied hearing the man making racist remarks, points she will raise with a complaint to First Bus.