{"id":501043,"date":"2026-10-19T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501043\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:48:11","slug":"i-would-do-it-again-man-stabbed-on-muni-for-protecting-women-has-no-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501043\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I would do it again\u2019: Man stabbed on Muni for protecting women has no regrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bobby Meza was riding the 14 Mission bus to a lunch date with his girlfriend Sept. 23 when he saw a fellow passenger attempting to put his hand under the skirt of a teenage girl.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The girl\u2019s mother was yelling at the man to stop. The bus was full of people, yet no one intervened. Except Meza.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told him I fear no man, and no matter what, he\u2019s not getting back to the women,\u201d said Meza, 43, in an exclusive interview with The Standard.<\/p>\n

Meza stood between the man and the girl and her mom and told him to sit down. In response, the man attacked him with a box cutter. Meza thought he was getting punched until he saw the \u201cgush\u201d of blood coming out of his neck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Glenn Hopkins, who is accused of attacking Meza, has been charged with attempted murder and remains in custody.<\/p>\n

Meza, who was treated at a hospital after the attack, still has a wound on his neck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was painted as a \u201cgood Samaritan\u201d by DA Brooke Jenkins and received praise on social media for his actions. But a day after he was released from the hospital, he was arrested and jailed hundreds of miles away for outstanding warrants in Madera County.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He figures speaking to police as a victim and witness to the attack led to his arrest the following day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, Meza has no regrets.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI would do it again to stand up for women,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t abide womanizing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ABobby Meza shows the gash on his neck the boxcutter attack on Muni. | Source: Manuel Orbegozo for The Standard<\/p>\n

Meza said he came to San Francisco in search of redemption.<\/p>\n

A failed relationship in 2025 led him to abuse alcohol and methamphetamine. His ex-girlfriend was emotionally abusive and unfaithful, Meza said.<\/p>\n

His ex-girlfriend accused him of domestic violence, according to Madera County court records, a claim he denies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

He became homeless after the split and adopted a miniature pitbull named Darla. Meza treasured the unconditional love Darla had for him, but she died after going into labor. Meza blamed himself for her death, saying he was too addicted to drugs to seek proper care for her.<\/p>\n

The dog\u2019s death motivated him to come to San Francisco in February to seek treatment. He\u2019s been enrolled at Walden House, a drug treatment center, for five months. He\u2019s been employed for a month at SFO as a logistics coordinator for airline food caterer Sky Chefs, he said.<\/p>\n

\"ABobby Meza shares a photo of his late dog Darla. | Source: Manuel Orbegozo for The Standard<\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t stop his past from following him to San Francisco.<\/p>\n

The day he was arrested, officers surrounded him near the front door of Walden House\u2019s transitional sober-living home in the Haight and told him he had outstanding warrants, he said. On Sept. 29, he was booked into Madera County jail.<\/p>\n

While in San Francisco, he had called the Madera County clerk to check for any active warrants under the name \u201cRobert Meza\u201d but didn\u2019t ask them to search his legal name, Roberto Bobby Meza, under which there were active warrants for theft and narcotics violations, he said.<\/p>\n

He appeared in Madera County Superior Court on Oct. 1 and was released. His next court date is Nov. 19. But he\u2019s not bitter about his arrest and said it was the first step in facing his past.<\/p>\n

He has since returned to San Francisco, with a plan to stay sober and write a memoir. He\u2019s on Chapter 22.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what the Walden House taught me: to build on top of the rubble that I\u2019ve created, and now I have a solid foundation, Meza said. \u201cThe sky\u2019s the limit for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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