attack, King County Sheriff Sue Rahr rushed to assure the peace-loving people of Seattle this hyper-violent episode was an "isolated incident and could have happened anywhere."

Bus rider Gil Costello told the local Fox affiliate, KCPQ, violence on the bus "happens all the time. They just never report it."

The Fox station reported a few months before that a disabled man was "terrorized" on a bus, then punched in the face and knocked out. All in black and white.

In 2011, an Iraq war veteran in a suburb of Seattle was riding the bus when he confronted several black passengers who were using foul language. Including the dreaded "N" word.

They attacked him. The former Marine fought back and drove them off the bus. All on video.

In 2011, Ondrell Harding beat aguy to death. No need to weasel around with "allegedly." At least five people saw it: The victim's wife and preteen son and a few members of Harding's crew.

The district attorney did not file charges, because he could not figure out who started what.

Four months later, Harding and five of his pals beat up another guy at a bus stop. They told police the single victim attacked them. This time the DA filed charges, convicted him, and Harding got three months.

Maybe it would have helped if the DA had known as much about rap music as Kaegan Hamilton, a writer for the Seattle Weekly.

"Far from repentant, Harding has bragged about his exploits in rap songs posted on his MySpace page. "When you look me in my eyes you