In February, Google CEO Sundar Pichai Tweeted about how we shouldn’t let violence against Asian Americans “fade from the headlines.” He assured

An Asian Uber Driver Was Attacked By A Mob. Then YouTube Took Down the Video Of His Beating.

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2021-05-26 04:00:05

In February, Google CEO Sundar Pichai Tweeted about how we shouldn’t let violence against Asian Americans “fade from the headlines.” He assured the general public that “all of us at Google” continue to “stand with and support you”; Google was going to work to #StopAsianHate.

In mid-May, the West Virginia native and Uber driver arrived for a pickup in Morgantown when he was greeted with a mob of people who were involved in some kind of fist fight. He soon discovered that his intended passengers were fighting with people in the crowd.

Those passengers fled to his car, and the mob attacked them, Kang, and even the car itself, doing as much as $1500 in damage. MetroNews, a West Virginia news outlet, covered the mob attack.

Shortly after that attack, Kang set up a GoFundMe to help pay for the damages. (Full disclosure, I pitched into Kang’s GoFundMe before deciding to write this story.)

“What I find most ridiculous is that the ‘take’ for Uber is often over 50% of the fare, especially with the $3.10 "safe ride fee" but their deductible for incidents like this is $2500,” he told me over e-mail. “My own insurance disclaimed the event because of Uber. So I get the entire bill.”