A group of maskless women have been caught on video attacking and driving a California Uber driver after asking one of them to put on a face mask.
The incident happened after 32-year-old Subhakar Khadka picked up three women in San Francisco on Sunday around 12:45, according to KABC-TV.
Khadka remembers asking one of the women to put on a mask, but she refused, so he decided to cancel the ride.
According to Uber’s policy, customers and drivers must wear face masks during rides.
“She started teasing me, cursing at me and asking me about a man. The ladies even talked about my shooting, called their cousins to shoot me. “They made fun of my race,” said Khadka.
The woman can be seen in the video recorded by Khadka shouting at him: ‘F – k the masks!’ and then coughed repeatedly for him while her friends laughed and shouted insults in the background.
At one point, the maskless woman also grabbed Khadka’s phone from the center and violently ripped off his face mask, the footage shows.
The driver said he pulled over at a gas station and demanded the women get out of his car.
An Instagram account apparently belonging to one of the women in the car posted several videos of the incident.
“You do not just have to drop us off in the middle of the canopy and the highway, and I’m not about to just get stupid without any reason he had to let us act and cut the video,” written by user @keepinupwforeign. .
Another video was captioned: ‘Kidnapped’.
San Francisco police said one of the women sprayed a substance suspected of being pepper spray into Khadka’s car.
The driver told KABC Uber gave him $ 120 dollars to clean up the mess in his car after repeatedly asking for help.
Khadka added that he was too traumatized to go back to work.
“It was unbearable, it was threatening, I was scared for my life,” he said.
Uber said the woman who was seen coughing at the driver was permanently banned.
“The behavior seen in the video is appalling. The rider no longer has access to Uber, “the company said in a statement.
The incident is being investigated and no arrests have been made.