Knife-wielding teen chases passengers off Winnipeg Transit bus, fights with police

Passengersscattered after a teen pulled out a knife and began fighting with a manon a Winnipeg Transit bus, witnesses say.

WitnessHaleyMusick told CBC News a teenageboy and a girl were"clearly intoxicated and super high" and causing a disturbance on the bus just after 4 p.m. Wednesday.

"They were just rambling a lot and one of them had a knife," she said.

Another passenger, a man Musicksaid was a security guard,tried to defusethe situation, but the teens started attacking him, hitting and scratching him, she said.

"He had two black eyes. It was just awful looking," she said.

The man got the knife away from the teen and gave it to the bus driver, said police, who were called whenthe bus pulled over to the curb near Osborne Street and York Avenue and all the other passengers got off.

"Then the police came and they started attacking them," Musicksaid, lamenting her choice of bus routes that day.

"I should have taken the 65."

The teen girl jumped on the back of the the security guard,who was trying to help police officers, and scratched at his face, police said.

The officers eventually gained control andarrested the teens, but not before thegirl spat in the face ofone officer.

Both teens are now in custody and facing charges.