RTA Uppercut: The Hit Heard Around the World
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Police & Fire
RTA Uppercut Incident Sparks Cleveland Bus Conduct Law
The Cleveland City Council will introduce a bill Monday intended to protect Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority bus drivers in light of a viral video of a bus driver uppercutting...
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Police & Fire
RTA Uppercut Trials Delayed
A Shaker Heights Municipal Court judge has granted motions to delay the trials of Artis Hughes and Shidea Lane. The two were involved in an altercation — which was recorded on a cell...
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Police & Fire
POLL: Should Uppercut RTA Driver Be Rehired?
A bus driver who was captured in a viral video punching a passenger is unhappy with his dismissal from the RTA, and his union is fighting the decision. Artis Hughes was fired Nov. 6 ...
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Police & Fire
Uppercut RTA Driver's Firing Goes to Arbitration
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority's bus driver union voted to bring in an arbitrator in connection with the firing of a bus driver involved in a physical altercation with a...
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News
Top Story of 2012: Cleveland RTA Driver Hits Woman, Video Taken in Beachwood
One of the biggest hits locally this year wasn't in the box office, it was on an RTA bus in Beachwood. On October 11 a video of a bus driver punching a passenger on an RTA bus went v...
