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A video circulating online of a man with a knife<\/a> on a Charlotte Area Transit System light rail train happened Sunday night, the agency and police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Both agencies did not answer questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware of a video circulating on social media showing a portion of what appears to be a heated exchange between passengers aboard a Light Rail train on Sunday around 10:00 p.m.,\u201d CATS and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said in separate but identical statements. \u201cCMPD is actively investigating the incident, during which one individual displayed a knife following an argument with two others in the video. This appears to be cell phone video taken by another passenger.\u201d<\/p>\n

The video shows a man wearing purple rubber gloves and what appears to be a teal scrub top. He\u2019s holding and pointing a knife while arguing with another man and woman.<\/p>\n

Neither CATS nor CMPD have said where the incident took place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll beat your [expletive],\u201d the man with the knife says. \u201cI will kill you on this [expletive] train.\u201d<\/p>\n

A woman stood between the men, telling them to back up. She yelled at the man with the knife to get off the train.<\/p>\n

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The video ends after the man with the knife exits the train and sits on a bench on a platform.<\/p>\n

CMPD and CATS said no one was injured.<\/p>\n

Charlotte\u2019s light rail safety has come under scrutiny since the fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska<\/a> last August by DeCarlos Brown Jr.<\/p>\n

The high-profile homicide captured national headlines, with President Donald Trump calling for Brown to be executed. Brown has been determined mentally unfit<\/a> to stand trial on federal charges, and the courts will attempt to determine if he can be treated to understand his case.<\/p>\n

Crime on public transit is rare. But a February Charlotte Observer investigation<\/a> found violent incidents were more likely to occur on buses rather than light rails, and that bus drivers were especially susceptible<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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