Man's Racist LIRR Rant Under Investigation

The MTA is investigating the hate-filled rant that a white man directed at two black passengers, which was caught on video and has gone viral.

In the video, which was filmed in mid-April, a white passenger on a Long Beach branch train can be seen yelling at two black women, who are off camera. He repeatedly calls them "monkeys" and says they don't know who their mothers are.

According to the New York Post, one woman, 25-year-old Soraya Orelien, was heading back to her Lynbrook home from classes in college in the city and was talking on her phone when the man started berating her, calling her a "loud mouth monkey" in an expletive-laced rant.

“All I did was get on the train. I didn’t expect to be terrorized and threatened by someone,” Orelien told the New York Post.

Another woman on the train came to Orelien's defense, and the man began to verbally attack her, too, the video shows. He started calling them "twin idiots."

After the scene shown on the video, the man got up and went to the woman to verbally attack her more, ABC reported, then left and went to another car on the train. The verbal attack lasted 10 minutes, although only a brief portion of it was caught on video.

““This language is offensive, completely inappropriate, and has no place in our society, let alone on the Long Island Rail Road. The MTA Police are actively investigating this report," MTA Spokesman Aaron Donovan said in a statement. "LIRR train crew members are trained into how to de-escalate situations, including verbal abuse and harassment, and they are able to request MTA Police assistance at any point in a train’s route. Anyone who sees a situation like this unfolding should notify a conductor immediately. This absolutely falls under the mantra of: if you see something, say something.”

Actor Billy Baldwin even weighed in on the incident, saying it was because of men like the one in the video that he decided not to move his family to Long Island.

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