Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty got into an argument with a Lyft driver which led to both her and the driver calling 911.
Despite the frequent riots in Portland, Jo Ann Hardesty has been an advocate of defunding the police. She wanted to take $18 million from the Portland Police Department to “reinvest” elsewhere.
“Well, I’ve got a Lyft driver that decided he would just drop me off at a filling station. Well, I’m not getting out of the car, in the dark, at a filling station, not happening. All because I asked him to put the window up. I’m not leaving. I am not going to allow him to leave me on the side of the road. I paid for a ride and he says he canceled it, so I’m just going to sit here until he sends me another ride.”
In case you are wondering, keeping the windows cracked is a COVID-19 related Lyft policy. Although the dispatcher explained to Hardesty that the driver wasn’t committing a crime, that she is sitting in the Lyft driver’s property, and that she, not the driver, would be the one to call Lyft, she insisted on having a police officer come out anyway. Meanwhile, the poor Lyft driver dealing with this nut had this to say in his 911 call,
“I’ve got a customer that I canceled the ride. I’m a rideshare driver and I canceled the ride, and I’ve taken her off the freeway to this filling station so that she can order another ride. I canceled the ride so she’s no longer involved or engaged with me. She’s refusing to get out of my car.”
The driver also added this when talking to the press,
‘I spent 40 years in the service business. ‘There’s always a few people, you cannot please them no matter what you do.’ He added that he felt the call ‘was so unnecessary … To argue and belittle and to treat me the way I felt she treated me was completely unnecessary.’
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