Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, shown on video assaulting Shohel Mahmud after he began reciting prayer in Arabic

A New York woman who pepper-sprayed a Muslim Uber driver while he was praying has been indicted by the Manhattan district attorney on hate crime charges.

Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, is shown in a surveillance video repeatedly pepper-spraying her Uber driver, Shohel Mahmud. The assault took place in August on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, near the corner of east 65th Street and Lexington Avenue, shortly after Mahmud began reciting a prayer in Arabic.

Guilbeault’s former employer, the public relations and marketing firm D Pagan Communications, wrote on X it is aware of her actions and “don’t condone this behavior”.

  • nomous@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    How other people pray is none of your business

    Unless I’m paying them to take me somewhere, then it’s definitely my business why they aren’t doing that.

    Shit is rarely just black and white as much as we’d all like that to be the case.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      16 days ago

      What an absolutely awful person you are…

      If other people’s cultures and religions offend you, stay inside and remain alone, for all of our sakes.