A 14-year-old Detroit boy is in critical condition after he was stabbed Wednesday while riding a city bus near Dexter Avenue and Lawrence Street.
The teen was on a Detroit Department of Transportation bus with other teens when two men -- one white and the other black -- started having an argument.
Police say the argument was racial. They were talking about Martin Luther King Jr. and the black man apparently claimed to have killed MLK.
The group of students, who all happen to attend Detroit's Martin Luther High School, told the black man he was wrong, telling them that's not what happened.
The black man got into the 14-year-old's face and kept asking the teen if he wanted to fight, police say. They all exited the bus at that point and the man picked a fight with the teen.
Police say the 14-year-old boy was defending himself when he punched the man in the nose. The man then took out a knife. The teen ran back onto the bus saying the man had a knife. The man followed him onto the bus and stabbed him in the chest.
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