An 82-year-old Florida woman appears to be preparing for a legal battle against transit officials in Miami after video surfaced online of her being pulled to the ground and out of a local train.
WPLG-TV
reported on Friday that an attorney representing Emma Anderson has filed a Freedom of Information Act request against Miami-Dade Transit asking for their policies regarding dealing with elderly passengers.
The request could be the first legal salvo in the wake of a Feb. 20 incident in which Anderson was ejected from a local Metrorail train for allegedly singing a religious song too loudly.
"I was beating my little beads with the bottle and I was singing a song," Anderson
told the station on March 6. "[The security guard] came up to me and said, 'Ma'am, you're making too much noise.'"
The video, filmed on a cell phone by another passenger, shows the guard grabbing Anderson's bag by the handle while she held on to the other end. Shortly thereafter, Anderson is seen falling to the ground. Her attorney, Al Carbonell, said the fall caused injuries to her hip and shoulder.
"Right now, physically, she can't walk," Carbonell said. "She can't move around."
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