{"id":19979,"date":"2013-03-11T16:31:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19979"},"modified":"2013-03-11T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T20:31:31","slug":"miami-senior-citizen-dragged-off-train-for-singing-gospel-hymns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19979","title":{"rendered":"Miami Senior Citizen Dragged Off Train For Singing Gospel Hymns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI, FL &#8212; <strong>Emma Anderson, <\/strong>82, was reportedly dragged off of the Miami Metrorail train system last month for allegedly singing religious hymns too loudly.<\/p>\n<p>The incident involving the octogenarian occurred on February 20th and was captured via a passenger\u2019s cell phone video.\u00a0 The footage shows <strong>Anderson<\/strong> sitting in the corner seat of a railcar obliviously singing religious tunes and rhythmically tapping to them on her thigh with a rolled-up piece of paper.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed security guard spotted the senior, approached her, and repeatedly asked her to quiet down. <strong>Anderson<\/strong> continued to ignore the guard\u2019s request. As the train stopped at Brikell station, the guard then grabbed <strong>Anderson\u2019s<\/strong> cart roughly while <strong>Anderson<\/strong> tried to hold on for dear life.<\/p>\n<p>The security guard then proceeded to drag both the cart and fragile old woman off the train. As the guard dragged <strong>Anderson<\/strong> along with her cart, roughshod, out of the railcar, <strong>Anderson<\/strong> fell on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Miami-Dade County transit spokesperson, <strong>Karla Damian<\/strong>, the agency enforces a strict policy that no dancing, singing, or instrument playing is allowed on their railcars. The agency also released a public statement with regards to the <strong>Anderson<\/strong> incident:<\/p>\n<p>We regret that <strong>Ms. Anderson <\/strong>had to eventually be escorted out, but regardless of age, all passengers need to abide by rules associated with using transit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI, FL &#8212; Emma Anderson, 82, was reportedly dragged off of the Miami Metrorail train system last month for allegedly singing religious hymns too loudly. The incident involving the octogenarian occurred on February 20th and was captured via a passenger\u2019s cell phone video.\u00a0 The footage shows Anderson sitting in the corner seat of a railcar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}