UPDATE: Lyft Bans Maskless Uber Passenger Who Coughed On, Assaulted Driver; Woman Posts Videos Taken Before Incident
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Ride-hailing service Lyft has also banned a woman caught on camera coughing on and assaulting an Uber driver who refused her and her friends service over in San Francisco over not wearing masks, the company announced Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the woman in question has apparently posted a video on social media in which she expresses some remorse for her actions but continues to rail against and blame the driver for ending her ride and demanding her group leave his vehicle.
In the new video, the woman – who was banned by Uber following the incident – also threatens to sue Uber and ends the video by saying, “That’s why I take Lyft.”
However, in a statement sent to KPIX 5 Lyft said, “Although this incident did not involve the Lyft platform, the unacceptable treatment of the driver in this video compelled us to permanently remove the rider from the Lyft community. Driving in a pandemic is not easy. Please wear a mask, respect one another, and be a good person.”
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help Uber driver Subhakar Khadka after Uber only offered him $120 to have his car cleaned of the pepper spray that was used in his vehicle during the incident.
Separately, the woman in question also posted videos from her own cellphone camera before the incident with the driver, showing the driver telling her and her two friends to get off on the freeway or saying he will drive to his own home unless they exited his vehicle.
The Instagram account @keepinupwforeign has posted a series of videos that appear to precede the incident on Sunday in which the woman responds angrily to the driver’s demands for her and her two companions leave the vehicle because of not wearing face masks.
In the videos, the driver tells the passenger to leave his vehicle and the women refuse, saying they don’t know where they are and they won’t exit the vehicle until another Uber arrives.
Khadka tells them if they don’t exit his vehicle immediately, he will drive onto the freeway and let them off “in the middle of the freeway.”
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