Maskless Passenger Coughs On, Assaults Calif. Uber Driver

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – San Francisco Police say they are investigating an attack on an Uber driver who was assaulted by a woman who refused to wear a mask.

The driver, an immigrant form Nepal, says the attack captured on a now-viral video was racially motivated.

The woman was with two other women wearing masks when 32-year-old Subhakar Khadka picked them up Saturday.

The video shows the three women in the back seat berating Khadka, using profanities. At one point, the woman without a mask coughs on him, grabs his cellphone from the center dash area and rips off his face mask.