Video quality is bad but also looking at what can be seen of the hands, I don't think it's a white in blackface. We'll have to wait. I suppose the video will still help the authorities in finding him.

Everywhere the hat would naturally touch and rub against the skin looks much lighter.

I didn't see an attack in the video.

Also, there is shine on the temple, like it's skin, not hair. And there is no white in the beard.

Could be wrong about this, but don't beards turn white faster than hair that grows on the head?

Yes, I've seen hair on top of ears when a man wearing a ballcap and it pushes the hair down to the top of his ears.

It looks to me like a grey haired man with a dark beard, and there is no white around the eyes or eyelids, that is, no makeup.

Just pointing out that there is room for conjecture, and it will remain conjecture until we catch the perp.

White around the mouth and ears. Could be a black person with pigment issues.

My guess that, given that blacks overwhelmingly oppose Trump, a black guy running around in a MAGA cap and shirt would stand out and would have been turned in.

A good percentage of replies to that original tweet go in that direction.

Sad, but true.

he likely wiped it all off to getawy!

My guess is police are studying all the video from the area, if the guy wiped off greasepaint, that will show up on some video footage.

It’s wrong.

Black people are fully capable of being crazy, being xenophobic, being personally racist (as opposed to institutionally racist), and voting for Donald Trump.

I can’t tell from the Twitter phone video if it’s blackface or not.

Automatically assuming that it’s a white guy in black face assumes that Black people are a monolithic entity. It stereotypes Black people.

All that having been said, a MAGA hat and blackface seems like the perfect way for a chickenshit racist (and all racists are, by definition, cowards) to get away with a hate crime. So it’s psossible.

BUT there’s another “but.” That assumes that the average white nationalist itching to commit hate crimes has the intelligence to pull off something probably invented in a cartoon.

interviewed witnesses from the train and station, not one witness said it was blackface that I know of, and the police officially now have said it was a black male.

I think you jumped the gun, unless you have more info that I have not seen.

Eventually we will learn, and then no one will care about this op again - if the premise is wrong.

I actually hope it's just bad satire. I'd hate to think that anyone actually believes this silliness.

This sounds like the kind of shit you hear on Infowars.