Fight with cabbie captured on video probed as hate crime

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Fight with cabbie captured on video probed as hate crime
By Terry Davidson, Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 12:20 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, October 05, 2016 08:55 PM EDT
Shocking Facebook video out of Hamilton details a white woman attacking a black taxi driver outside his cab and calling him a “n-----.”
Officers with Hamilton Police’s hate crimes unit have made an arrest and a 33-year-old woman now faces an assault charge.
Witness Mubarik Gyenne-Bayere took to Facebook to post the video, which shows the woman in the back of the stopped cab in downtown Hamilton on Monday.
The video opens with the woman frantically reaching over the front seat of the cab in an attempt to get at the driver.
“Hey, you’re a f------ n-----, eh!” she yells before getting out and slamming the door. The driver also gets out as the woman walks around the front of the cab to the driver’s side.
“I’ll knock you the f--- out, eh!” she yells before striking out at him several times, causing him to stagger backwards. At one point, she appears to hit him with her handbag.
Det. Paul Corrigan said the suspect was “unruly” from the moment the 40-year-old cabbie picked her up, spilling her orange juice inside the car and, in the end, refusing to pay for her ride.
“When she got into the cab ... things were not going well, and when they got to their final destination it just went downhill from there,” Corrigan said, adding it is still “hard to say” if alcohol, drugs, or mental illness play a part.
Police were dispatched for calls about an assault in progress and allegedly witnessed a portion of the attack.
Corrigan said because there are allegations of a hate crime, the Criminal Code allows authorities to seek an “increased penalty” if there is a conviction.
He said the cabbie later had an X-ray due to “pain in his head.”
The suspect, who was not identified by police, was released with notice to appear in court Nov. 3.
According to Gyenne-Bayere’s posting, the incident took place in an underpass near the convention centre,
“At one point she was telling him to ‘go back to Africa’ and got out of the vehicle and said the ‘N’ word repeatedly while smacking the car window, and this is basically when I began filming,” he wrote.
TDavidson@postmedia.com
A screen grab of video posted on Facebook allegedly showing a white woman hitting a black cab driver in Hamilton (Facebook)

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