Unapologetic White Vigilante Who Assaulted Black Dancers On DC Subway Is Reminiscent Of Daniel Penny

A Metro train rolls into the McPherson Square station in Washington, D.C. | Source: Getty Images / Getty

In the year after a white man on the New York City subway took the law into his own hands and carried out a physical attack against unsuspecting and unarmed Black men, history nearly repeated itself about 241 miles south in the Metro public transit subway system of Washington, D.C.

In that instance, a white man also went into vigilante mode this past summer and shoved a Black...