Uber driver asked her to wear a mask: she coughed on him and sprayed him with pepper spray

Last weekend a video sparked outrage on social media in which a woman attacks an Uber driver in San Francisco, Calif., after he refused to do her a favor because she refused to wear her mask.

The driver, named Subhakar Khadka managed to register the moment when the attacker coughs on the back of his neck, then tries to grab his cell phone from the Uber worker, then violently remove the mask.

The video was sent by Subhakar to local media, who released it as a complaint. In view of this, Uber said in a tweet that the behavior of the woman captured on video was unacceptable and therefore suspended her access to the platform.

The woman in question turned out to be an Instagram influencer who, with her keepinupwforeign account, accumulates more than 35 thousand followers. The woman of Persian origin assured through a live Instagram that she was going to take legal action against Uber. According to her, the driver wanted to leave them on an expressway, exposing him and his 3 companions to cars. However, both in the videos posted by her and in the one recorded by Subhakar, they are heard demanding that she leave them at a gas station, not in the middle of the freeway, as the American influencer claims.

Subhakar developed for the local press that after what was videotaped, he was forced out of the car after being attacked with pepper spray. In addition, he sent to the press the conversation he had with Uber, where he asked for financial support to clean his car of the remaining pepper spray.

At first, Uber offered the amount of 20 US dollars, which is equivalent to almost 420 Mexican pesos. Subhakar replied that this sum was not going to cover the cost of professional cleaning, which was the service he needed. Argued that cleaning your car in order to continue maintenance could cost around $ 250 (5,245 Mexican pesos). Finally, Uber offered him $ 120 (2517 Mexican pesos).

In view of this, the artist and one of Uber’s early investors, Cyan Banister, decided to launch a fundraising campaign via the Gofundme platform for the benefit of Subhakar. Given the claims of some Twitter users who pointed out that, given his privileged economic situation, he could simply donate to Subhakar to cover the cleaning costs, the artist replied that he had decided to conduct a fundraising campaign as a fundraising tool. awareness of people who decide to support the Uber driver.

Until, Gofundme’s campaign received around 1,700 donations which already total $ 35,548 US or 745,815 Mexican pesos.

The influencer behind the keepinupwforeign Instagram account is one of the Americans who at the end of 2020, they left their country to reach the beaches of southern Mexico be able to celebrate in places where restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic were more flexible.

This phenomenon has been reported by American media such as the Washington Post, New York Times and Los Angeles Times in addition to the Mexican media.

According to her Instagram account, the woman who attacked Subhakar visited Tulum at the end of October. There she organized parties in the company of her friends who accompanied her on the trip, ignore COVID-19 restrictions just like he did when he refused to wear the mask on his Uber ride.

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