A group of women without masks were captured in a video attacking and coughing at a California Uber driver after he asked one of them to put on a face mask.
The incident happened after Subhakar Khadka, 32, picked up three women in San Francisco around 12:45 p.m. Sunday, according to KABC-TV.
Khadka recalled that he asked one of the women to put on a mask but she refused, so she decided to cancel the trip.
Uber’s policy states that customers and drivers must wear facial covers during journeys.
“He started teasing me, cursing me, questioning me about being a man. The ladies even talked about shooting me, calling their cousins to shoot me. They were making fun of my career, ”Khadka told the dam.
The woman can be seen in the video recorded by Khadka shouting at her, “Fk the masks!” and then coughs repeatedly at him as his friends laugh and shout profanations in the background.
At one point, the maskless woman also grabbed Khadka’s phone from the center area of the board and violently ripped off her face mask, according to the images.
The driver said he stopped at a gas station demanding 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 don’t just want to leave us in the middle of the hood and the freeway and I’m not about to get shit for no reason why he made us to trim the video,” user @keepinupwforeign wrote.
Another video was titled “Kidnapped.”
San Francisco police said one of the women sprayed a substance believed to be pepper spray into Khadka’s car.
The driver told KABC that Uber gave him $ 120 to clean up his car mess after asking for help repeatedly.
Khadka added that he is too traumatized to return to work.
“It was unbearable, threatening, I was afraid of my life,” he told the dam.
Uber said the woman who saw the driver coughing has been permanently banned.
“The behavior seen in the video is horrible. The pilot no longer has access to Uber, “the company said in a statement.
The incident is being investigated and no arrests have been made.