Lyft drivers recount being ejected by a female driver at the Turning Point America Fest in Phoenix after she accused them of terrorizing people and speculated on their Palestinian or Syrian heritage. The confrontation escalated when recording began, leading her to drive them onto a highway and refuse further travel. While debating whether the driver's hostility stemmed from their conservative event attendance or the passengers' confrontational behavior regarding immigration and military actions, the incident highlights rising tensions over political expression and racial profiling within ride-sharing services. [Automatically generated summary]
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Lyft Driver Throws Out Guests00:07:41
All right, so this Lyft driver finds out that he has a bunch of Trump supporters in the car.
Did all hell breaks loose?
Check this out.
Y'all, earlier today, my friend and I were thrown out of our lift from downtown Phoenix to our friend's house in Scottsdale.
All because we were at the Turning Point America Fest Conference in Phoenix.
Check out the clip.
If this place is so bad, why did you come here from your country?
Would you like to come out of the car?
If it's so terrible in America, why are you here?
I don't think we need to enjoy it.
Why are you terrorizing people?
I'm not.
First of all, you can tell she's an immigrant.
Yeah.
Why are you terrorizing me?
Or just cussing me?
I don't think we need to engage in that.
Why are you getting arising?
You were cussing us for being at a conference.
I did not.
She said that you were a gene, not me.
I said you were complaining.
I know.
You do what you need to do.
I think we can have a discussion as adults.
I think you should stop talking.
And I asked you to do the same, and that's when you cussed me.
Oh, now you want to be quiet because I'm videoing.
Now you want to be a little mild-tempered when you were cussing and hollering a second ago, saying that we slaughter your people, and I ain't slaughtered nobody.
You did.
Huh?
You did.
I ain't slaughtered nobody.
Maybe she's Palestinian?
Hmm.
I don't know.
She don't look Palestinian.
Well, a lot of Palestinians are really fair-skinned, too.
Yeah, they white passing.
Yeah.
Who have I slaughtered and terrorized?
Might be Syrian.
I'm not telling you to do anything.
You are telling us that America is a terrible place that slaughters people and that we need to get out because I was not born here.
Do you want to come out of the car?
You do what you need to do.
Do you want to come out of the car?
Yeah, English is not a first language.
Yeah, I want to know.
I can't figure out what she is.
It sounds like it's Czechoslovaklovakian or something.
You can't even say it.
You just guessing.
You do, ma'am.
I'm not canceling nothing.
I don't, ma'am.
I don't know why you chose to get upset with us about something that nobody in this car has the responsibility and or the power.
Why are you getting slaughtered?
That may be the case, but there's everybody from every heritage has formed some type of hate you towards their people.
All of you are making this with your own hands.
No, no, no.
We don't have, we don't have any power.
This is who this lady is, right here.
Yep, I'll be sending it in.
Yep, I will be sending us in.
That dude kind of got some feminine energy, don't he?
That was not nice, sticking the camera in front of you.
I understand why she's throwing your she's throwing you out.
You're harassing at that point.
And you are terrorizing her.
Well, they're engaging in a conversation that it seems like she doesn't want to be in.
Well, she was being rude to them because of the event they just came.
Yeah, she changed her tune as soon as he started recording.
Yeah.
She's playing on whose side you on.
I'm always on Trump's side.
All right, dear.
You know, my allegiance to Trump supporters and Trump.
That's why I'm my allegiance.
You take my allegiance to some immigrant, but that wasn't nice him sticking the camera in her face.
You know?
Yeah.
Well, let's finish this.
And now she's going to drop us off right here on the side of the road, and that's just fine.
Out in the middle of nowhere.
That was pretty.
You have a wonderful day.
Unlock the door.
This is the lady in the Honda HRV.
He got some sauce in him, don't he?
He's that little salty.
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe he's, I don't know.
Don't want to kick us out of our car because we were at the American Festival.
Who's this lady right here?
This woman.
This woman.
I like him, Joe.
I like his accent.
I like his style.
I think it's his accent.
Yeah.
He's got an accent from somewhere.
Right there.
Right?
Yeah, some kind of accent.
Yeah.
Yeah, but you know what?
She's totally wrong for like...
Yeah, the way he dropped you off.
Well, okay, let me say this.
She was, if she was being rude to you guys, which I have no reason to doubt, yeah, that's rude of her.
But why you engaging?
You stuck on the side of the highway now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And she has every right to do that.
Yeah.
Because it...
I won't say you was terrorizing her, but you was getting up on her skin.
Especially when you stuck your phone in her face.
He said, here's the woman right here.
What's his accent?
I'm going to hear that again.
Yeah.
Look at this.
Watch yourself.
Do you want to come out of the car?
You do what you need to do, ma'am.
Come out of the car.
I'm not canceling nothing.
Ma'am, I don't know why you chose to get upset with us about something that nobody in this car has the responsibility to get.
Every heritage has formed some type of heat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, no, no.
We don't have we don't have any power.
This is who this lady is right here.
See, you didn't have to do all that.
What do you think she is?
She might be Palestinian.
You think so?
Might be.
Or Syrian.
Well, he did just bomb Syria.
He bombed my ran, too.
He need to bomb him again.
Who?
Syria.
I don't agree with them bombing Iran, but I do agree with them bombing Syria.
Yeah.
Taking an unalive in a couple soldiers.
Yeah.
Yeah, but from what I heard, this woman lost her job.
She did?
She got banned from Lyft.
Probably a Trump supporter took the call.
What?
Trump supporters kick you up?
You went to Tony Kirk's event.
Oh, man, we banning her.
Yeah.
Yeah, but let me see this right here.
My friend and I were thrown out of our lift from downtown Phoenix to our friend's house in Scottsdale.
All because we were at the Turning Point America Fest Conference.
I ain't gonna even go there.
Go where some pretty eyes.
He shouldn't have even gazed there.
I mean, why?
No, you shouldn't have.
Yeah.
Yeah, because I do not doubt for one second she was being nasty, vicious, and rude to you guys.
Well, she's a woman for one.
That's like that's already a strike.
That's like, that's not one strike.
That's like two strikes.
Really, it's like two and a half strikes.
You're a female?
It's like two and a half strikes.
You've been kind of dealt a bad hand in life.
Yeah, like the conservative woman.
You guys are actually the anomaly when it comes to women.
Yeah.
You should pat yourself in the back.
You guys are unicorns.
You are like pretty much God's chosen people.
The Conservative Woman Anomaly00:00:56
But you know what?
Shout out to this young man.
But, you know, holding this disgusting immigrant to a high standard.
If you don't like it here, go back where you came from.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
Go back where you came from.
He said that.
Who came up?
You know, who came up with that, right?
A white supremacist.
No, Justice Moye came up with that.
Oh, he did.
Go back where you come from.
Oh, no, they've been saying that's a quote for white supremacists.
No, but nobody actually really said that until Justice Mollette did that, pulled that scam.
Yeah, they used to say this is Trump's country.
Go back where you came from.
Well, they used to say go back where you came from.
That's been I never heard that until what happened to Jesse.
Yeah, because you ain't been paying attention.
No, I was paying attention.
No, you didn't mean to ask me.
Jesse, Jesse made that quote famous.
Come on, so you don't think white people are saying that?