The man was filmed yelling racist comments on the Tube. Source: TwitterThe footage has gone viral.
Video has emerged of a man being punched in the face after making racist comments on the London Underground.
The footage shows the man, who calls himself Billy Steele, shouting at a group of black men on the same carriage for several minutes on Saturday.
A caption on the video, shared thousands of times on social media, reads: ‘Being black in the UK is tiring. These black boys just wanted to go home and this supremacist just kept provoking them.’
In the footage, the white man can be heard proclaiming it was “popular to be racist” and “this is my home, you are all going back”.
Then as the group of men he was directing the abuse at prepare to leave the train, the abuser yells “come on” and holds up his fists.
The man was filmed yelling racist comments on the Tube. Source: TwitterIt's then that a member of the group swings around and punches the man in the face, sending him falling backwards.
Other passengers can be heard cheering as the man on the floor of the carriage.
“Well done,” one woman can be heard saying.
The video has clocked up millions of views since it was shared on social media.
Racist knocked out on the tube. The whole carriage cheers.
Makes me proud to be a Londoner.
— Mike Keefe ? (@mike__keefe) August 16, 2020
That Billy Steele got absolutely glatted on the tube for being racist and I’ve never been prouder of the boys on the northern line
— George Mallett (@ClemeFandango) August 17, 2020
Just watched a video of a racist getting knocked out on the tube. Glorious. Sometimes violence is the answer.
— BTS_Dynamite ⁷ (@CinemaDoll90) August 16, 2020
My mate sent me two videos this morning, one was four minutes of this racist guy shouting abuse all over the tube. Second was this video of him getting LAMPED. pic.twitter.com/5g8Tqme0W1
— Parker (@panoparker) August 17, 2020
This is getting very sad, globally. We have to - be better than all of this. This guy learned this racists stuff from somewhere (who was subsequently knocked out). His statements are not okay, nor is the violent reaction it triggered. https://t.co/uOonpzo0Jc
— John Hope Bryant (@johnhopebryant) August 17, 2020
