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MILWAUKEE – A young man of 20 years Milwaukee woman is accused of hitting a school bus driver on the city’s northwest side. Danielle Dobbin is now facing charges of physical abuse of an elderly person with intent to cause bodily harm and disorderly conduct.

According to the criminal complaint, police responded to a 911 battery call on Wednesday, Nov. 6 at the intersection of 91st and Acacia Avenue on Milwaukeethe northwest part of it.

When officers arrived at the scene, they spotted a school bus and made contact with the driver. The driver stated that she was on the bus with two young children “when a black four-door car passed her on the right side, but then stopped in front of the bus and began to back toward the bus,” the complaint states . . When the bus driver honked to alert the car driver, the car driver “got out of the car and started yelling at (the bus driver),” the complaint says. The bus driver told police he was not allowed to reverse the school bus without permission from dispatch, so he did not move the bus.

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The complaint says the driver of the car approached the bus, yelled at the driver, opened the driver’s side door of the bus and threatened to take the driver’s purse. When the bus driver moved the purse, the complaint says the car driver “slammed a closed fist at (the bus driver).” The bus driver said the car driver did this several times. The complaint says the bus driver “was still restrained by his seat belt in the driver’s seat, unable to move away from the strike.”

When the driver of the car pulled away, the bus driver closed her door and “felt fear for her safety and the safety of the children on the bus,” the complaint says. The bus driver called dispatch and described the driver of the car and what happened.

The bus driver later directed officers to the driveway where he saw the driver of the car enter the vehicle. When officers went to that location, they spoke with the defendant, Danielle Dobbin. Dobbin told police the bus was driving close behind her — and “stopped behind Dobbin 2 feet from the rear of her vehicle,” the complaint says. Dobbin said the bus driver refused to back up the bus. The complaint says Dobbin “stated that he struck (the bus driver) in the face once with his left fist and that the incident would not have occurred if (the bus driver) had locked the driver’s side door.”

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Police collected school bus surveillance footage “which showed the school bus traveling eastbound in the 8900 block of W. Acacia Avenue when a black four-door sedan passed the bus on the right side at a high rate of speed,” it said. says in the complaint. . Later, Dobbin “is seen opening the bus driver’s door hitting (the bus driver),” the complaint says.

Dobbin was scheduled to make her initial appearance in Milwaukee County court on Friday, November 8.