An Asian Uber driver in San Diego was racially harassed by his passengers over the coronavirus. The driver who also happens to be a Youtuber by the name of AmeriCantonese91 posted the recorded incident on his channel on March 14.

In the video, the three passengers get in the car and the girl asks the driver where he’s from. The driver tells him that he’s from Hong Kong and that’s when the girl says, “coronavirus, so yeah.” This causes all three passengers to start laughing while the driver is clearly uncomfortable.

“No, I don’t have it,” he said.

At a later point in the video, the front passenger seems to acknowledge how demeaning they’re being so he says, “dude if you want to let us out you can. It’s up to you.”

The driver pulls over and the three exit the car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=77&v=bXjbQHQiq18&feature=emb_title

In a follow-up video, he said that the incident left him shook even though he faced racism many times before working as an Uber driver for four years. The reason is that he picked up the passengers from Convoy, San Diego, an Asian hotspot, so he expected better of the passengers.

What’s worse is that the driver said after he kicked them out, they dropped his rating and left feedback of “service quality.”

The driver said he was “traumatized” and he called it a night after two more rides. After, he went home and cried about what happened to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFygiEh3Fjc

The driver initially posted the video up without the blurred faces but got hit with a privacy claim. He either had to take the video down or had to blur their faces which he did.

In another follow-up video, the angry driver wanted an apology from the passengers. Furthermore, he called the passengers “worthless” and “ignorant.”

“Maybe you three are just racist to Asian people and are using this coronavirus outbreak as a reason to attack us,” he said. “If you have any remorse for what you did please make an apology. Not only to me but to the people of Hong Kong and to the Asian community.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdPOWWXpQs

Violent crime and racism against Asian Americans have been on the rise ever since the coronavirus outbreak. Be careful out there.