Charlotte Lyft Driver Reportedly Called Racial Slur After Telling Passenger To Wear A Mask
A Charlotte Lyft driver says her passenger threatened to hang her by a tree after asking her to put on a mask, Fox 46 Charlotte is reporting.
Majidah Hector tells reporters she was attempting to pick up some passengers from Uptown Cabaret Tuesday (December 28) before realizing they were entering her car without wearing masks.
Being that all Lyft passengers and drivers are required to wear a mask when inside the vehicle at all times, Hector said when she saw the pair, she asked them if they had any.
“So, I said, ‘do you guys have masks?’ And he starts then, he’s like, ‘we have them’. He is like, ‘we have them, and we are going to put them on, they don’t work anyways but we are going to put them on anyways.’ And I thought that’s as far as it’s going to go,” Hector said. While exiting the parking lot, Hector then said that the passenger got more violent and even threatened to hit her.
Fox 46 reports that within less than two minutes of driving, Hector ended the ride and dropped the pair back off at the club which prompted them to reportedly attempt to kick her car.
“He then kicked my car somewhere around here,” Hector said. Then she dialed 911 and two CMPD officers showed up within minutes.
“They asked me what happened, I told them what happened. In the meantime, this guy is calling my phone back to back to back,” Hector added. Apparently, she’d received up to 50 calls within 45 minutes including some unpleasant voicemails from the male passenger.
As obtained by Fox 46:
“Hey, you stupid f****** b****. I hope you rot in hell and vote for Biden again, you stupid n*****. I hope you rot in hell and vote for Biden again you stupid n****. Burn in hell. And I hope they hang you from a f****** tree. You stupid n*****. F*** you n****, n****, n****, n****, n****, n****, n****, n****, n****. You f****** n****. F*** you n****,” the man said in the voicemail to Hector. “You are not allowed to drop me off because of your political f****** beliefs? You stupid f****** b****.”
“I just think that it’s awful that we can’t be human beings to each other, that we are just worrying about the politics,” Hector went on to say to reporters.
“He didn’t know that I caught COVID after just two weeks of driving Lyft for not making people wear their masks when they get in the car, so this is life or death for me. “Every order that comes through the Lyft app, I am just anxious, praying like Lord please let them have their mask on, please don’t make me have to say anything to them, you know?” Hector added.
The local police are looking into the case and one report says the suspect is being investigated for intimidation and harassing phone calls.
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