Uber passengers can be seen coughing all over their driver and snatching his mask in a shocking video.
In the clip, two women scream at Subhakar Khadka and cough at him, during the coronavirus pandemic, before grabbing the driver's phone and ripping off his mask.
He claimed their behaviour came after he refused to be their driver because they were not wearing masks when he picked them up in San Francisco on Sunday.
They almost came to blows when he grabbed his phone back from one of the women.
He claims that after the unruly passengers finally got out, the woman dressed in red shot pepper spray into his car through a gap in the window.
The spat escalated when one of the women said 'f*** the masks' after he demanded they wear face coverings.
The video shows her then coughing all over him, prompting one of her pals to burst into laughter and make fake spluttering noises.
A third passenger does not appear to take part in the abuse as she sits in between the pair.
Mr Khadka, 32, believes the passengers harassed him because of he is a South Asian immigrant.
He told CBS : “I never said anything bad to them, I never cursed, I was not raised that way. I don’t hit people, I am not raised that way, so they were not getting out of my car."
When asked if he had a message for the women, the driver said: "Since you were born and raised here in the United States, don’t think the other person is less human.”
After one of them shot pepper spray into his car, he was forced to get out of the vehicle as he was having difficulty breathing.
An Uber spokesman told KPIX 5: "The behaviour seen in the video is appalling. The rider no longer has access to Uber.”
Police said the three women fled the scene after the attack.
