In the wake of attacks on Asian Americans, a Lyft driver is left wondering if his race played a role in the attack he suffered in Queens.
Ashish Sapkota says he picked up two passengers last Tuesday and they began fighting in the backseat of his vehicle. The driver who immigrated from Nepal recalled telling the passengers to stop fighting, but things got so heated that he had to pull over on the side of the Van Wyck Expressway.
That’s when Sapkota says the passengers attacked him, and all of it was caught on his dash camera. The footage shows one of the passengers punching Sapkota several times in
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