A group of maskless women were caught video-assaulting and coughing on 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 around 12:45 p.m. Sunday, according to KABC-TV.
Khadka remembered asking one of the women to put on a mask, but she refused, so he decided to cancel the ride.
Uber policy states that customers and drivers must wear face covers during rides.
She started to dare me, curse me, ask me if I was a man. The ladies even talked about shooting me and called their cousins to shoot me. They joked about my race, ”Khadka said to the outlet.
The woman can be seen in the video shot by Khadka yelling at him, “Fk the masks!” and then coughing at him repeatedly while her friends laugh and shout blasphemy in the background.
At one point, the maskless woman also grabbed Khadka’s phone from the center of the dashboard and forcibly tore off his face mask, footage shows.
The driver said he stopped at a gas station and demanded that the women get out of his car.
An Instagram account that appeared to belong to one of the women in the car posted several videos of the incident.
“You’re not just going to drop us off in the middle of the hood and the highway and I’m not going to be just plain rubbish for no reason that he let us trim and trim the video,” wrote user @keepinupwforeign.
Another video was entitled ‘Kidnapped’.
San Francisco police said one of the women in Khadka’s car had sprayed a substance believed to be pepper spray.
The driver told KABC that Uber gave him $ 120 to clean up the mess in his car after repeatedly asking for help.
Khadka added that he is too traumatized to return to work.
“It was unbearable, it was threatening, I was afraid for my life,” he told the outlet.
Uber said the woman who coughed at the driver has been permanently banned.
“The behavior seen in the video is awful. The driver no longer has access to Uber, ”the company said in a statement.
The incident is under investigation and no arrests have been made.