New York Taxi Drivers are subjected to racial and class based arrogance on the part of the media, much of the public and NYPD. Here's an example:
http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/148523/taxi-driver-claims-nypd-threatened-unjustified-arrest-after-attack?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance is calling for an investigation after a cab driver said a passenger attacked him and police told him he would be arrested if he made a complaint.
http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/148523/taxi-driver-claims-nypd-threatened-unjustified-arrest-after-attack?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Haroon Rashid of Brooklyn says a male passenger punched him repeatedly and then bit him behind his ear at 57th Street and 10th Avenue in Manhattan Sunday night.
Rashid said that even though he was bleeding, the police officer never called an ambulance and let the other man go.
He drove himself to the hospital, where he ended up getting stitches.
"Police came, they told me ‘we are going to arrest you both.’ I was bleeding, he was not even bleeding. Still, they don't show me any sympathy," said Rashid.
"This is outrageous and it is totally unacceptable," said Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Worker’s Alliance.
Police say they have no record of any complaint or a 911 call.
