A trending video has captured the moment a woman, Jennifer Guilbeault, unleashed pepper spray into the eyes of her Uber driver in New York, United States of America.
The driver claimed he overheard the woman telling her friend that she attacked him because he was “brown”.
The attack happened on July 31.
Driver, Shohel Mahmud said the lady’s friend was yelling at her asking her what she was doing and why she was doing it.
He said the lady said it was because he was brown.
Reports indicated that the lady was in the backseat with her friend at Lexington Avenue and East 66th Street, Manhattan, New York around 11:30 p.m. when she suddenly attacked the 45-year-old driver.
The driver said he picked up the women in Midtown, New York City, and did not have any conversation with them before the attack.
Mahmud said the two ladies talked to each other, but he did not talk to them as he concentrated on taking them to their destination.
He said he was from the Central Park Traverse, straight down to 65th and Lexington when one of the ladies sprang him a surprise.
Mahmud said he thought the women were robbers who wanted his car and phone, so he jumped out of the car, but it kept moving at a slow speed, forcing him to hop back in.
The driver said it was ridiculous and a hate crime.
Mahmud,, who lives in Elmhurst, Queens, called 911 but his attacker began to flee, while her friend stayed with the driver.
The driver explained that the police arrived before she could go more than one block away.
she was booked for assault and will have to appear in court at an unknown date.
A police spokesperson, however, said they were not investigating the case as a hate crime.
Mahmud said the attack made his daughter very upset and it was taking a toll on him mentally, but he had to keep working to feed his three kids, his wife and his mother.
The driver’s children are aged 17, 14, and 1.
Watch a clip of the assault here.
