A group of masked women were caught video-assaulting and coughing at a California Uber driver after he asked one of them to put on a face mask.
Subhakar Khadka, 32, picked up three women in San Francisco around 12:45 a.m. Sunday afternoon, According to KABC-TV.
Khadka recalled that he had asked one of the women to put on a mask but he refused, so he decided to cancel the ride.
Uber’s policy states that customers and drivers must cover the face during the ride.
“He started harassing me, cursing me, questioned me about being a man. The women were talking about shooting me, telling their cousins to shoot me. They mocked my race. Were, ”Khadka told the outlet.
The woman can be seen in the video by Khadka screaming, “F-K Mask!” And then coughing at him repeatedly that his friends laugh and shout profanity in the background.
At one point, the masked woman also grabbed Khadka’s phone from the center dash area and violently ripped off her face mask, the footage shows.
The driver said he demanded the women be taken out of his car at a gas station.
An Instagram account appearing for one of the women in the car posted several videos of the incident.
“You’re not fighting to just leave us in the middle of the hood and the freeway and I’m not going to be on Bulbul for no reason, because it has cropped us f-d up and video,” User @keepinupwforeign wrote.
Another video was captioned, “Kidnapped.”
San Francisco police said one of the women believed to have pepper spray in Khadka’s car.
The driver reported that KBC Uber gave him $ 120 dollars to clean up the dirt in his car after repeatedly asking for help.
Khadka said that he is very angry to go back to work.
“It was unbearable, it was threatening, I was scared of my life,” he told the outlet.
Uber said the woman was seen coughing at the driver and was permanently banned.
“The behavior seen in the video is horrifying. Rider no longer has access to Uber, ”the company said in a statement.
The incident is being investigated and no arrests have been made.
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