Uber bans rider after racist attack on Asian driver at LAX

Uber said it banned a rider Wednesday after NBC News inquired about a report from a Filipino driver saying he received racist insults from the rider, who is white, at Los Angeles International Airport.

“After I unloaded the luggage, that’s when he started yelling at me,” Raph David, the Uber driver, told NBC News. “And he said, ‘Asian piece of s---, you might not even have a paper here in America. Go back to your country.’”

According to David, the incident occurred Tuesday evening when the man, Kyle Harrington, ordered an Uber using his son’s account. When David picked up the man and his two sons, Harrington tried to get into the front passenger seat, which is currently prohibited per Uber’s Covid-19 safety policy.