The driver, Subhakar Khadka, said one of the women pepper-sprayed him as they left the vehicle, a San Francisco police spokesperson told HuffPost. Khadka told KPIX the passengers targeted him for being a South Asian immigrant and yelled racist slurs as he tried to get them to leave his car. Uber called Sunday’s attack “appalling” and said it suspended the account of one of the women, KPIX reported. UBER RIDERS COUGH ON, ASSAULT, PEPPER SPRAY DRIVERDriver Subhakar Khadka, who is South Asian, says he believes he was targeted because of his race. “These guys are animals to treat another human being like this,” Khadka told the TV station.

Source: Huffington Post March 09, 2021 15:45 UTC