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Three Uber passengers refuse to wear their masks and assault their driver

2021-03-16T11:43:45.297Z


A video, which has gone viral, shows three young women violently assaulting their Uber driver who asks them to wear their masks in San Francisco. Two of them were arrested.


On February 7, in San Francisco, three young women attacked their Uber driver who asked them to wear their masks in his vehicle, according to information from the

New York Times

.

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A camera captured this violent scene and the video traveled around the world.

We see the three young women sitting in the back of the vehicle start to get angry when the driver tells them that he will not start the race until they wear a mask.

Angry, they raise their voices, cough on the driver and hurl racial abuse at him.

One of them even rips the driver's mask from her face and bends down to try to steal her phone.

Finally, they agree to get out of the vehicle, after having sprayed pepper spray.

Mr. Khadka, an Uber driver from Nepal arrived in the United States eight years ago.

He thinks he was the target of the anger of his passengers because he is South Asian: “

If I had been of another color, they would not have treated me that way

.

""

As soon as I opened my mouth to speak, they understood that I was not one of them.

It's easy for them to intimidate me

 ”.



The first female passenger was arrested in Las Vegas on Thursday March 11, Las Vegas police said.

Malaysia King, 24, has been taken into custody on charges of assault with a caustic chemical, assault and battery, conspiracy and violating a health and safety code, San police say. Fransisco.

A second passenger, Arna Kimiai, 24, surrendered to the police on Sunday March 21 and was charged.

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"

The behavior filmed during this incident shows a complete disregard for the safety and well-being of a person working in an essential service in the midst of a deadly pandemic

 ," said Lt. Tracy McCray, who heads the San Francisco Police Theft Department.

A crowdfunding has been launched to support the driver and nearly $ 100,000 has already been raised.

Tensions associated with wearing a mask

This assault is the latest example of conflicts over the wearing of masks, which have sometimes taken a violent turn, particularly in the United States.

Chicago prosecutors last year sentenced two sisters who attacked a store security guard with a trash can.

One of the women stabbed the guard several times with a small knife.

He had only tried to insist that they wear masks and use the hand sanitizer when entering the store.



Finally, last year, an 80-year-old man was killed in upstate New York after asking a bar patron to wear a mask;

the client then pushed the man who had fallen on his head.

Source: lefigaro

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