In the video, the passenger is heard telling his Uber driver, 'I am a born-and-raised Calgarian. I am the white blood of the land. You are on my land. I am the blood of the land.'
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.A video showing a passenger subjecting a Calgary Uber driver to a series of racist comments during a ride last month has gone viral.It took place last month and video of the interaction has been shared to numerous social media platforms ,where it has been viewed tens of thousands of times since it was uploaded on Sunday.
Balgord says when he talks to people in communities that face this kind of hate-based harassment, “everybody has a story.” Uber said while drivers are permitted to have dash cams, “uploading dash cam recordings and/or live streaming is prohibited. Future reports describing the misuse of information may lead to the permanent deactivation of your account.”
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