A preferred Detroit rapper sparked controversy on-line after she claimed that her Lyft driver refused to permit her into his automobile earlier this month.
Dank Demoss, whose actual identify is Dajua Blanding, was recording when the motive force of a Mercedes-Benz sedan locked his door and refused to permit her entry.
“I can match on this automobile,” Blanding stated in a video that was shared to social media on January 19. “Consider me, you’ll be able to’t,” the motive force responded–including that the tires wouldn’t be capable to deal with her weight. In accordance with The New York Put up, the rapper has beforehand shared her weight as greater than 480 kilos.
In her publish on Instagram the place she shared video of the occasion, the rapper wrote, “AM I WRONG?,” Demoss wrote within the publish. “(Lyft) what y’all acquired to say about this yall driver discriminated towards me…I JUST FEEL LIKE YALL TREAT BIG PPLE LIKE SH*T LIKE WE DONT BELONG HERE.”
The unique garnered greater than 11,000 likes and hundreds of feedback.
In accordance with Fox 2 Detroit, the motive force apologized for the inconvenience and supplied to refund her cash and help her with ordering a bigger automobile.
“I’ve been in vehicles smaller than that,” she informed FOX 2. “I simply need them to know that it damage my emotions.”
In addressing the problem, Lyft issued a press release, saying, “Lyft unequivocally condemns all types of discrimination—we consider in a neighborhood the place everyone seems to be handled with equal respect and mutual kindness. Our neighborhood pointers and phrases of service explicitly prohibit harassment or discrimination.”
Nevertheless, Blanding’s attorneys, Jonathan Marko and Zach Runyan have filed a lawsuit towards the rideshare firm.
Marko defined that as weight is a protected attribute, the actions of the Lyft driver is similar as discriminating towards somebody resulting from their non secular beliefs.
Nevertheless, quite a few social media customers on X, specifically, are disagreeing with Blanding.
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It’s unclear if the Lyft driver has been named within the lawsuit or has been let go by the corporate.
