MOD EDIT: The article quoted below changed the title of the original source story, which didn't bring up the passenger's race. Both the passenger and driver are black. Here is the original article:
https://www.metroweekly.com/2018/07...iver-kicked-him-out-of-car-due-to-homophobia/
The title of this thread has been updated to reflect the original article.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/07/dc-uber-driver-calls-cops-black-man-sounding-gay/
Will this ever end? Of course not.
Call cops on me for stupid reasons if old
https://www.metroweekly.com/2018/07...iver-kicked-him-out-of-car-due-to-homophobia/
The title of this thread has been updated to reflect the original article.
A gay, black man in D.C. said that he was kicked out of an Uber and had to face the police because he's gay.
Chris Williams is a bartender on U Street. He ended his shift on June 27 and called an Uber to go home.
While he was being driven home, he received a call from his grandfather. He said that while he was talking, he used "tag words" like "honey" and "darling," and the video of the confrontation shows that Williams has a stereotypically gay voice.
Williams said that it was when the driver heard the word "darling" that he stopped the car.
"As soon as [the driver] heard the word, darling, he has to pull over… I'm like, wait, this is new. This isn't my stop," Williams told Metro Weekly.
"He said 'You literally actually need to get out of my car, because I'm not taking you anywhere.' And, so I'm looking at this man, like, what, wait a minute. What's wrong?"
Williams said that the driver told him to get out again, and when he asked why, the driver called the police. When two officers responded to the call, Williams said the the driver refused to talk to him and only talked to the cops.
"The way that you just treated me right now and I just sat here and looked at you and told you what the fuck is going on, and you want to sit here and be a bigot? Go ahead," Williams said.
He started recording the interaction with his phone when the police arrived.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/07/dc-uber-driver-calls-cops-black-man-sounding-gay/
Will this ever end? Of course not.
Call cops on me for stupid reasons if old
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