As many as 10 people tackle registered sex offender when he tries to drag a teen girl away

[Liberal_in_LA]

Commuters tackle man trying to kidnap girl on L.A. rail platform

As many as 10 commuters helped to foil the kidnapping of a teenage girl at a South L.A. light rail station. The girl has now come forward to detectives, officials said Friday.

The group of Good Samaritans tackled the girl's would-be attacker in the incident Thursday, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman said.

"Eight to 10 people wrestled him to the ground," sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. "The bystanders refused to let this occur. They brought this man to the ground, and there was a fight. It was an aggressive fight." ***pic at link shows perp grabbing girl***
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When they arrived, witnesses told deputies that commuters at the station had wrestled a man to the ground after he grabbed an unidentified teenage girl from behind and tried to drag her away. The girl broke free and ran away, Whitmore said. The attacker fled on an arriving train. The suspect is identified as James Alfred Burnett, a 46-year-old registered sex offender with a criminal history.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/03/10-good-samaritans-tackle-man-trying-to-kidnap-girl-on-la-rail-platform.html

[medeak]

1. K&R

need good news like this

[TwilightGardener]

2. WTF kind of cave man shit is this, that you can simply walk up to an adult-sized person

and attempt to drag her away in broad daylight, in public? How would that ever work? Good on the commuters who saved her.

[TlalocW]

3. The guy knew he was in trouble

When he realized the crowd was just holding him until Casey Heynes could get there.

TlalocW