Posted on 02/20/2026 1:02:39 PM PST by DFG
A man was left bleeding on a subway platform Tuesday evening after a mob of 10 unruly teenagers kicked him into a moving train — and the response from Boston progressives might be even more shocking than the attack itself.
The victim, who was targeted during a dispute over a fare card at Back Bay Station, suffered a severe head laceration after being shoved into the train as it pulled into the station.
A nurse who happened to witness the horrific scene rushed to help, keeping the bloodied man conscious while a transit police officer applied pressure to his wound. Emergency medical technicians didn't arrive for another 10 agonizing minutes.
But when the nurse — who may have saved the man's life — took to Reddit's r/boston forum to warn other commuters, she found herself under attack from an unlikely source: fellow Bostonians.
Rather than expressing outrage at the brutal assault, commenters quickly pivoted to a bizarre debate about... urban planning.
"It's because we don't have enough third spaces to build community anymore," one user earnestly explained. "Not making excuses or in any way giving grace to violent kids, but bored, energetic, maybe poor (?), maybe disadvantaged (?) kids need productive, healthy spaces to be in!!!"
Third spaces. A man nearly died, and the solution is more coffee shops.
But it got worse.
The nurse found herself scolded — not for anything she did wrong, but for including a physical description of the attackers in her firsthand account.
"Why did you feel the need to mention that the teens were Black?" demanded user u/Puzzleheaded_Okra_21. "They could have been of any other race. Please - the Black community in Boston already suffers enough because of racist stereotypes, and stories like this become free ammunition for bigots and racists."
The comment was downvoted more than 540 times — but not before the nurse felt compelled to apologize for simply relaying what police and the victim had told her.
Other commenters insisted that increasing police presence would be pointless.
"No we don't need to increase the police budget thanks," one wrote. "Increased police presence is security theater and does nothing to actually address the root cause of the problem."
The "root cause," apparently, being a lack of youth centers — not the mob of teenagers who kicked a stranger into a moving train.
The discourse quickly caught the attention of rDrama, a forum dedicated to cataloguing online absurdity, where users compiled the responses under a mocking headline.
Users gleefully pointed out the now-familiar pattern: violent crime occurs, witness provides description, and progressives immediately pivot to sociological explanations while attacking anyone who mentioned identifying details about the suspects.
Not everyone on the thread lost the plot.
One witness, u/kenack, described pushing the victim's wallet toward him with their shoe "so it wouldn't get stolen" while the nurse worked to keep him conscious. Another commenter reported seeing groups of teenagers "no older than 14 on expensive looking motorized bikes screaming and being reckless and taunting cops" near the station earlier that evening.
Boston police say they are investigating. No arrests have been announced.
The victim's condition has not been disclosed.
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Put them in the dumb, racist, “everyone belongs in America” Mayors house.
I know where they can hang out — a prison cell.
Basketball Americans
Annoying people.
the absolute worst libtard scum of humanity is at reddit.
“Clockwork Orange”
Funny. Dunning-Kruger.
I suppose the victim is black...
Yes, “Massholes”, but I bet money they are in your state too.
Dotted lines on a map aren’t going to stop this cancer.
“”””The “root cause,” apparently, being a lack of youth centers — not the mob of teenagers who kicked a stranger into a moving train. “””””
The “root cause” is no Dad at home to beat their ass when they do stupid stuff.
A neo conservative is a liberal who got mugged. The left has zero empathy for crime victims as long as it doesn’t happen to them.
how do they know they were all 13 to 19 years of age?
Regardless, avoid cities as much as you can.
My mom’s family and its members were poor until she reached adulthood. I don’t remember hearing stories of her or any of her five brothers and sisters or anyone they knew attacking a stranger bc they were angry about deprivation; they each worked their way out of it.
unruly = mostly peaceful.
“The “root cause” is no Dad at home to beat their ass when they do stupid stuff.”
And the “root cause” for Dad fleeing is Welfare that only pays well if he does leave.
Will anyone anywhere withstand the cries of “RACIST!” and propose reducing welfare to increase fatherhood to decrease crime?
Not so long a certain furious people refuse to identify problems and propose solutions but cry “RACIST” instead at any and all junctures.
Bernhard Goetz, a man ahead of his time.
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