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Cleveland RTA Bus Driver Uppercuts Female Passenger: Twitterverse Responds

We rounded up Tweets responding to the video of a Cleveland RTA driver uppercutting a female passenger.

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The video went viral and the Twitterverse has responded.

Some are serious, some are funny. Many Tweets glorify the blow the Cleveland RTA bus driver gave the woman in a viral video.

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In Cleveland, the hashtag #uppercut, the phrase Mortal Combat — comprised of Tweets comparing the punch to the popular 1980s tabletop game — and the acronym RTA is trending, and at least two acounts have been created to Tweet about the uppercut a local RTA driver gave a woman on a bus in Beachwood.

Check out the Tweets in the gallery above, and let us know what you think of the response in the comments.

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