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'They'll Deport you Soon': Racist Queens Motorist Berates Uber Driver in Unhinged Rant
A video that has been shared more than 60,000 times on Facebook shows a man spewing racist epithets at an Uber driver in Queens.
QUEENS, NY — A Trump-loving motorist in Queens took time out of his morning commute to spew racist vitriol an at Uber driver, and the whole thing was caught on film.
The offensive rant occurred when the driver of a white SUV stopped in the middle of an intersection on Crescent Street in Astoria to hurl insults at an Uber driver traveling on the road, the Washington Post reported.
In the rant the Uber driver was called a "f---ing loser," a "terrorist f---" and a "sand n-----."
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The Uber driver shared the video with a St. John's graduate student whom he picked up later that day. The student, named Cody, began speaking to the driver, named Mohammed, in Arabic, which prompted the driver to open up about the abusive experience, according to the Post.
“Right before I picked you up, I had a horrible incident,” Cody recalled his driver saying, as reported by the Post.
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The graduate student then sent the video to an actor friend, Karim Metwaly, who shared the video to his Facebook page.
As of this writing the video has been shared more than 60,000 times and has 5.2 million views.
Watch the full video of the rant below. Warning: This video contains offensive language.
Photo: Screegrab of video posted to Facebook by Karim Metwaly
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