For over two years, I have been discriminated against for my disability from various different drivers on different routes. Bus route number 40 headed north On October 3, 2024 at 4:45 PM. I was salted with a deadly weapon from an RTD bus driver. How this happened was when I first got on the bus well let me rephrase trying to get on the bus. He sat there, ignoring me and told me to come on and wouldn't put the ramp down for me. I'm in a walker. I have a serious back injury. For almost 5 minutes I had to wait until he actually put down the ramp. When he first pulled up, I asked him for the ramp like I said he ignored me. I sat there and waited for almost 5 minutes then he decided to put it down, but before he almost put it down, I asked him "I don't deserve the ramp?" After I got on, my brother, followed behind me soon as he got on the ramp, the bus driver tried to close the ramp while he was on it. My brother is disabled, but not in a walker. He has metal throughout his body. After he got on the bus, just passing the driver he heard the driver say they're not disabled then the next person a 71 year-old man and I know he's 71 because he got into an argument with the bus driver because he was discriminated against a 71 year-old man about getting a discount pass. He put $1.35 in and the bus driver refused to give him the pass saying it's not enough the passenger arguing and got angry to the point that he eventually got the pass for the $1.35 after all that and everybody got on, we got two of our stop down the road on the corner of Colorado and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Once we stopped, I asked for the ramp again. He ignored me about four times. He ignored me the fifth time I got really angry, and I banged on the window told him to put down the effing ramp. After about asking 11 times with several minutes pass, the bus driver started to put down the ramp. It came halfway up and he stopped it wait till I got close to the ramp then close it on me trying to injure me I had to yell for my brother to come and grab the ramp and pull it down. As we are able to force the ramp down, I was almost off the ramp, I decided not to let this criminal and discrimination. Get away a criminal working for RTD that discriminates. I stayed on the ramp while my brother called the RTD hotline RTD hotline told us to stay on the bus and don't let it move. Wait for security!!! That was their exact words!!, the bus driver gets on The bus phone and I started yelling into the phone of how he was treating me so they could hear me in the background. As we were waiting for security, I made a speech very loud to the bus and everyone in it the way they could hear me to the back apologizing that I have to deal with a discriminating bus driver in RTD told us to wait and hold the bus there that any anger you have directed towards the driver, not me, I am the victim. Everybody started to get angry with me started calling me names threatening me. Everything else they all got off the bus and these two girls in the images started attacking me, punching me trying to choke me and everything else they were able to force me off the off the ramp that I was sitting on my walker on the ramp facing the driver she came up behind me, grabbed the handle and yanked it! My brother stepped in and then all the Black people started to call us racist.
After a few minutes of physical violence towards me, trying to defend myself, my brother was calling the police. Everybody saying it's my fault I'm the blame
blah blah blah but yet they all wanna defend the bus driver but when it comes down to the nitty-gritty, everybody ran onto the second bus and the bus driver told them to hurry. Hurry, get outta here before you get in trouble. RTD told my brother pacifically not to let anybody leave as there are all witnesses. Once a place come it was just me and my brother and the driver. Then the supervisor came up to me and I explained the situation to him. I told him I just asked for the ramp. I just wanted to get off the bus and go home.
I was nauseous from motion sickness, and being sick, I've been sick for three days and I have a sleeping disorder. I haven't slept in a few days. I just wanna go home and rest. But no, I have to deal with discrimination and violence. This is all recorded on RTD bus the local authority police and RTD are investigating the video. read more