A man saw red and assaulted a bus driver because he wasn’t telling passengers to wear a face mask.
James Rooney was travelling on a McGill's bus to his ill father’s house in Renfrew on May 29 last year when he became “extremely paranoid about catching Covid-19” as passengers onboard the bus weren’t wearing face masks.
Rooney, 44, claims he asked the bus driver twice to ask passengers to wear a face mask and when he “ignored him” he saw red and grabbed him by the arm as he got off the bus.