DALLAS - Kennan Jones is recovering from a brutal beating by seven fellow passengers on DART’s Green Line Sunday night. 
 
 "I think that I'm resting in the fact that I'm alive," said Jones, 44. 
 
 It was just after 11 p.m. when the southbound Green Line train stopped downtown at the Pearl St. Station and the doors slid open. 
 
 Jones was on his way home from school in Farmer's Branch that night when a group of young men and women walked on board. 
 
 "All of a sudden, they started smoking. I'm like come on man. We're on the train. Put that out right now. Wait until you get off the train. It's not that serious to smoke. You got other people on here who don't want to smell all that. That's when it escalated," explained Jones. 
 
 Moments later, one of the young women spat on Jones and one of her friends pushed him. 
 
 Another rider recorded video of the violent beating and posted it to Facebook where it has been shared tens of thousands of times. 
 
 When that Green Line train arrived at Deep Ellum, the fight tumbled out onto the platform where others joined in. 
 
 Jones now wonders why the operator did not stop the train in Deep Ellum once realizing what was happening. Instead, the operator continued down the tracks. 
 
 "Instead of you calling the police, or staying there and closing the door, you take all the people who did it, home," continued Jones. 
 
 In June, another rider was attacked at the same Deep Ellum station. That same month, a woman was raped near the DART station at Baylor in the same area. And homeless have been camping out at the platforms. 
 
 DART pledged to increase police presence but said it took officers 15-minutes to get to Jones after he was attacked. 
 
 "We apologize for this happening. Especially to that customer. This is not something we want happening on DART's trains. So, we actually want to catch these individuals and we want to prosecute them," said Mark Ball, DART spokesman. 
 
 Sunday’s attack happened a half hour before service ends and DART had skeleton staff on that night, added Ball. 
 
 Jones is recovering from a black eye, bruised ribs and sore knees. He said he'll remain a regular on the trains but hopes his attackers arrested, as well. 
 
 Besides manpower, one of DART's problems, as many riders have said, is that very few of the trains are equipped with any onboard cameras that could have seen Sunday's fight. 
 
 There are cameras on platforms and DART said its staff watches those feeds. Still, people who live downtown said DART should be more proactive and less reactive. 
 
 "The people who do the bad behavior and causing the problems, they don't fear anything because they don't see consequences,” said Veronica Simmons, downtown resident. 
 
 © 2017 WFAA-TV ||||| - A man who was beaten unconscious at a DART train station tells FOX 4 he is surprised by what's in the police report. 
 
 A witness posted video of the Sunday night attack on Facebook. It lasted almost three minutes, starting on board the green line train and ending on the platform at the Deep Ellum station. DART says it wants to find the attackers, but that's not how the police report reads. 
 
 Kennan Jones is the man in the middle of a Facebook video showing a group of people, young men and two women, attacking him because he told them to put out the pot they were smoking on the train. The beating lasted several minutes as they took turns punching kicking and slapping Jones. 
 
 “It wasn’t no reason for that,” he said. “Especially all I'm telling you is just put that out right now.” 
 
 No one helped Jones as he was attacked, including the man who recorded the video and told FOX 4 he was afraid to step in. 
 
 Two men wearing orange shirts, who were not even involved in the initial beating, joined in hitting Jones while he was on his knees. At one point, Jones charged all of them and they took him to the ground again with one of the young women hitting him in the head with a skateboard until he fell unconscious. 
 
 Jones saw the video for the first time Tuesday afternoon, a day after being released from the hospital. 
 
 “How difficult is that to watch,” asked FOX 4 Reporter James Rose. 
 
 “It’s not difficult,” Jones said. “It’s just sad that our generation is lost like that.” 
 
 Jones says someone called police. But when DART officers arrived, he says he was disrespected. 
 
 "To me, I was assaulted in another type of way by the police officers who were standing there looking at me like I did something wrong,” he said. 
 
 DART Spokesman Mark Ball says police are actively investigating and asking for the public's help in finding the assault suspects. 
 
 “It's awful,” he said. “We want to catch the ones who did this. The individual who was assaulted refused to press charges, but DART has the power to press charges. So if we can catch them, we are going to do so." 
 
 “That’s not true,” Jones said. 
 
 The DART police report says Jones does want to press charges, but it also shows the status of the incident as closed. 
 
 "Why would you think I wouldn't want to press charges after being assaulted like that?” Jones said. 
 
 Anyone with information on the suspects is asked to call the DART Police Department at (214) 928-6300.
– A man says he was beaten until he was unconscious Sunday night after asking a group of fellow passengers to stop smoking marijuana on a Dallas train, CBS DFW reports. "I'm like come on man. We're on the train ... You got other people on here who don't want to smell all that," 44-year-old Kennan Jones tells WFAA. In response, the group—five men and two women—attacked Jones with fists, feet, and a skateboard. The fight, which lasted nearly three minutes, was recorded by another Dallas Area Rapid Transit passenger with a cellphone, Fox 4 reports. After starting on the DART train, the attack continued at one of the stops, with two men who had been on the platform joining in on beating Jones. Jones suffered bruised ribs and a black eye but says he's lucky to be alive. "Everything just went from 0 to 100," he tells CBS. No one tried to help Jones during the attack, including the passenger who filmed the beating and told Fox he was too afraid to get involved. Jones says he's upset with the conductor of the DART train for driving off while the attack continued on the platform instead of staying and contacting police. DART spokesperson Mark Ball says it's unclear if the conductor actually saw the fight. Ball says DART and police are investigating and trying to identify the attackers. “For [Jones] to have stood up for DART and our policies and then to be hurt by that is a tragedy,” Ball tells CBS.