CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Police are investigating the assault of a CTA employee on a bus late Tuesday morning on the South Side.
It happened on a #71 bus CTA bus at about 11 a.m.
The transit agency said a woman got on at 71st and Eberhardt without paying.
A CTA instructor was on the bus. There was a verbal altercation between the two that turned physical.
Police said the woman punched the CTA employee, also a woman, several times with a closed fist and then pulled her off the bus and continued beating her before running away.
The woman was treated at the scene and a hospital for abrasions.
She was in good condition.
“We are outraged by this senseless act of violence,” said CTA President Dorval Carter in a statement.
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