New York woman charged with pepper spraying Uber driver over ‘Arabic prayer’

A woman from New York has been indicted of a hate crime after she pepper sprayed a Muslim Uber driver while he was praying in the United States of America.

A CCTV footage of the incident shows the woman identified as 23-year-old Jennifer Guilbeault repeatedly spraying pepper into the eyes of the driver Sohail



Mahmud. The incident reportedly occurred shortly after Mahmud began reciting a prayer in Arabic in Manhattan in August of this year.

Jennifer’s co-passenger, an unnamed woman tried to stop her as the former continued to spray on Mahmud. Following the incident, the Uber driver dialled the police and Jennifer was arrested.