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Interesting...
video is on facebook. Note that the woman interviewed was just filming, not the woman that intervened.
The woman that intervened seems to be a serial advocate / complainant / irritant of public services. By physically intervening she escalated the situation more than the guards did.
Listening to the interview and watching the video, IMO the term of "Excessive force" is problematic.
I imagine that PTA policy is to remove commuters who are non-cooperative? That seems pretty clear cut to me. If someone is not complying with directions from PTA officers they ought to be removed.
Was the force used to remove these two excessive? I don't think so. No one was injured, there were no threats of harm, no one was pushed to the ground to be restrained. They were physically removed from the train against their will in as safe a manner as reasonably possible under the circumstances IMO.
Note that we don't know what happened in the alleged collision between the girl and the other commuter.