A group of women without a mask was caught on video attacking and coughing at a California Uber driver after he asked one of them to put on a face mask.
The incident came after Subhakar Khadka, 32, picked up three women in San Francisco at around 12:45 pm on Sunday, according to KABC-TV.
Khadka recalled that he asked one of the women to put on a mask, but she refused, so he decided to cancel the trip.
Uber’s policy states that customers and drivers must wear facial covers while traveling.
“She started insulting 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 race, ”Khadka told the outlet.
The woman can be seen in the video recorded by Khadka yelling at him, “Fk the masks!” and coughing over and over at him while his friends laugh and shout profanity in the background.
At one point, the woman with no mask also grabbed Khadka’s phone in the central area of the panel and violently tore off her face mask.
The driver said he stopped at a gas station demanding that women get out of his car.
An Instagram account that appears to belong to one of the women in the car posted several videos of the incident.
“You are not just going to leave us in the middle of the neighborhood and on the highway and I am not about to get into the shit for no reason that it made us fill up and cut the video,” wrote user @keepinupwforeign.
Another video had the caption “Kidnapped”.
San Francisco police said one of the women sprayed a substance believed to be pepper spray in Khadka’s car.
The driver told KABC that Uber gave him $ 120 to clean up the mess in his car after repeatedly calling for help.
Khadka added that he is too traumatized to return to work.
“It was unbearable, it was threatening, I was afraid of my life,” he told the outlet.
Uber said the woman seen coughing in the driver was banned permanently.
“The behavior seen in the video is terrible. The driver no longer has access to Uber, ”the company said in a statement.
The incident is being investigated and no arrests have been made.