A driver for a ride-sharing service turned the tables against an unruly passenger who used a derogatory term used to describe Mexicans and wore no mask in Nevada last month, during the coronavirus pandemic.
Dash-cam footage captured on May 28 in Reno shows the male passenger being picked up and the heated argument that follows.
The driver is heard asking the passenger: “By any chance do you have a mask?”
The passenger says he does not and instead uses his shirt to try to cover his face. “Do you believe in that s***?” he says. Moments later he says to the driver: “I don’t like you.”
At this point, the driver offers to stop the journey but the passenger says he’ll “just give him a s***** review,” prompting the driver to cancel the ride.
He asks the passenger to leave the vehicle, which is owned by the driver, but the passenger refuses to get out at first.
The passenger then says to the driver: “You candy-ass f***ot in your white glasses … I should crush your f****** skull right now.”
The driver informs the passenger that the scene is being recorded and the passenger makes an effort to leave the vehicle while addressing the driver as “boy.”
He also asks the driver, “You ever take English class?” and calls him a “wetback,” a derogatory term once commonly used to describe Mexicans who entered the US by wading across the Rio Grande River and claims the driver is not from America.
“Go on, boy!” the passenger says as he departs the vehicle and the driver speeds off.
Ride-sharing firms Uber and Lyft now make it compulsory for drivers and riders to wear face masks.
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