![]() Officials don’t know how, but Lopez was able to get out of his restraints and gain access to the driver’s compartment of the bus, said Robert Hurst, spokesperson for the Texas Department of Justice and Department of Corrections. He escaped custody in Leon County Thursday while on a bus headed to a medical appointment in Huntsville. Officials say Lopez killed the man with a pickax. Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was serving a life sentence after being convicted in the 2005 slaying of another man along the Texas-Mexico border. That was her job.( NewsNation) - Texas authorities on Sunday continued their search for a man who escaped prison after stabbing a transport bus driver in a rural county between Houston and Dallas. And that’s what Karen Klein should have done. Some of them are awfully dangerous.īut for the most part, they’re scared and vulnerable and pretty darn easy to put in their place. The truth about kids is that they are kids, looking for us to be the adults. ![]() That’s nice and all, but where were those two when all this was going on? I just thought that somebody needed to stand up for Karen.” “Nobody deserves to be treated like that. “I decided to upload the video because it is not right, what those kids did,” the boy said in an online interview. The boy who took the video? He posted it on Facebook, then another kid uploaded it onto YouTube. There aren’t too many secrets out there today, and this is one of them. Apparently, someone in the family has Down’s Syndrome. And Klein, looking spiffier than she did that day on the hot bus, has gone on TV to say she plans to give some of the money away. Southwest Airlines is flying her and her family and friends to Disneyland in California. She’s been on Anderson Cooper and NBC and CNN. “Karen Klein gets apology from father.” “Karen Klein gets call from Ryan Seacrest!” “Karen Klein bullies receive death threats.” Since the video went viral - it’s had 4 million hits in a little more than a week now - the headlines have accumulated in true American fashion. “We feel compelled to act and take a step and do something.” “So many of us are horrified that there are so many ugly things in our culture, and this video embodies the worst of what goes on around us,” Lipshutz said. So what did we do? We did what Americans always do when we don’t know how else to fix a problem: We gave her money, close to $750,000. “For a grown woman not to have the inner resilience to take care of herself and protect herself and assert herself, you just got a sense of her as a lady who really didn’t know how to take care of herself.” “She looked like a woman who had been beaten up in life,” Lipshutz said. In short, Klein was being bullied - something that really didn’t occur to me until I talked to Palm Beach Gardens therapist Linda Lipshutz. But Klein was clearly not cut out for this job, where she was paid - a pittance, for sure - to sit on a school bus and rein in obnoxious kids who have no interested in being reined in. After all, it’s wrong to blame the victim. That’s the part that sticks with me, although I’m trying to overcome. population 96,000.Īnd you know what? We need to smack ‘em down, even though Karen Klein couldn’t. They’re riding on our school buses and sitting in our classrooms.Īnd they’re obviously alive and well in Greece, N.Y. They’re in our movie theaters, fast-food restaurants and bowling alleys. ![]() Kids like this are on our streets and in our malls. Over and over, the most awful things, and all you can think about when you’re listening to this is, Who are these children? You’re going to die of diabetes, you’re so fat. On and on and on, not one child heard calling out in protest. ![]() And after watching the YouTube video, all 10 minutes and nine seconds, I happen to be channeling my disgust to this one particular kid, a girl who in the end might have been the meanest of all, unleashing the most jaw-dropping vitriol: If I stabbed you in the stomach, it would go through like f- butter. Of course, most of us are human, most of us, so our hearts go out to Klein. She never once acted like a grown-up in charge, getting up and telling the kids to knock it off. Al Sharpton, she couldn’t remember if the bus ride happened in the morning or the evening. There’s something hinky about the Karen Klein video, the viral story of the 68-year-old school bus monitor now famous for being tormented by children in upstate New York.
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