A maskless man was knocked unconscious after launching into a loud, racist rant on a crowded subway train.
The incident happened four days ago on the London tube. Viral video shows 31-year-old Billy Steele shouting racist remarks at a group of Black men, calling them “my pets” and telling other white passengers that “they’re lesser than us.”
“You’re Black… Oh my god!” Steele shrieks. “This is my home! You’re all going back!” Then he starts shouting for “violence!”
When a woman tells him to shut up, Steele responds by yelling at her to “f*ck off c*nt face!”
The train eventually pulls into a stop and the group of men Steele has been harassing quietly get up to leave.
As they walk past him, Steele puffs up his chest and balls his hands into fists. Then, without saying a word, one of the men punches him in the face, sending him flying backwards and crashing into the floor.
Several passengers cheer. A few go to check if Steele, now unconscious, is OK. He doesn’t move for several moments before eventually blinking awake.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Steele’s mother, Toni, says her son is “getting help for his behavior” and that he doesn’t plan on pressing any charges against the man who knocked him out.
“Billy is on this video that has gone viral,” she says. “He has gone to the police and owned up. He doesn’t want the man who hit him to be punished.”
A former friend of Steele’s adds that this isn’t the first time he’s gotten into trouble.
Two years ago, he was kicked out of a bar after harassing a female bartender then getting into a fist fight with another bar patrol.
“He was never a problem until the last couple of years,” the friend says. “This is when people started to distance themselves from him as it was starting to get difficult to go out with him.”
And a neighbor says Steele is not well-liked around the neighborhood.
“Billy isn’t the most popular of residents,” the person says. “He drinks quite a bit. He hasn’t been seen since the weekend. Nobody knows where he is or how badly he was hurt after being punched.”
A spokesperson for the British Transport Police says law enforcement is “aware of two videos on social media showing an incident on a Central Line Underground train on 15 August.”
Watch the video below. Fair warning: It may be unsettling to some people.
justgeo
It is called mental/emotional illness!
Stark
Nah, people don’t get to keep blaming their shitty racist rants (or their shooting sprees either while we’re at it) on mental illness while throwing people with actual mental illness under the bus.
rbernard
There are some that might perceive this as Karma…
WSnyder
Steele? Looks more like a Glass jaw if you ask me. No pity on that bloke. There’s nothing better than seeing a loud mouth racist getting his clock cleaned by one punch from a colored guy. Cheers
Joshua333
Someone got what they deserved.
MISTERJETT
he got exactly what he asked for. the young man that knocked out the fool? he’s my hero.
Creamsicle
The Internet is radicalizing racists. We didn’t hesitate to call it radicalization when ISIS did it to young muslim men. We shouldn’t hesitate to call it radicalization just because the victims are white (and they ARE victims of a psy-ops campaign).
Kangol2
“Victims are white”? Huh? The White man was the one who was spewing racist invective. Did you miss that? Or are you a White supremacist promoting psy-ops on here?
Cam
@Kangol2
I think he meant that the victims of radicalization in this instance were white. Not that the guy in the video wasn’t the instigator. 🙂
Essie
Obviously mentally ill but, he deserved what he got. Maybe he’ll start thinking about getting some help and/or medication. Wouldn’t that be free in England?
Kangol2
Yes, the NHS does cover mental health services and medication is subsidized. You have to seek out mental health assistance or be referred or required (by a court, etc.) to received it, though, since I believe it is much harder to commit people these days.
Stark
Again, racism isn’t a mental illness. Stop lumping them together. You’re doing nobody any favors.
Cam
Not sure he could press charges against the guy even if he wanted to. He was making comments at them for a long time and stepped up to them as they were getting out. The other guy could argue he thought the guy was about to hit him and the case would probably get tossed.
HDTex
Shrug. Humanity, and apparently health care, are dead the world over.
Center_Right
Nasty racist that deserves to be punched and ridiculed.
Roan
He has a future in OnlyFans.
jonasalden
Wouldn’t THAT be funny?
Yidan
I’m not excusing anything, his movements (clicks and twitches) and repetitive words look as though he may be dealing with Tourettes syndrome? or does Alcohol do that to someone?
Stark
Being nervous about spouting racist shit to a train full of people who could obviously lay you flat and obviously don’t want to hear your tirade does that to you.
Roan
No, he’s just a drunken douc*he bag who acts like he’s at a football game.
Alex_S
Yeah right, let’s glorify violence!
Gay Thomas
Miss Karma ain’t playing with the vile bigots. More please.
clhs
This is *not* a subway. It’s very clearly London’t tube, or underground. A subway in London is a pedestrianised underground passageway connecting two streets.
Seriously.
Let’s make an attempt at trying to use the right words some of the time.
The big sky
The Daily Mail is a vile right wing rag which is why they seem to be trying to explain away his behaviour. Believe me, many of its readers would like to see the racist get a medal.
john.k
While I am not a reader of the Daily Mail (not even the Irish Daily Mail which is basically the UK edition with some pages of Irish interest added) my impression is that since Geordie Greig took over as editor from Paul Dacre it has become less right wing.
Tom
Bystanders went to help the racist douche. Where were they when he was terrorizing the people in the carriage???
HiKo73
Mentally ill or not, he’s a loud, rude racist & got what he deserved.
darkanser
England is so civilized. He gets clocked for bad behavior and gets to live another day. Innocent men in America get shot and killed by the police and other vigilantes!!!
stanhope
Punk guy gets his come uppance….a good day.