A D.C. police report said the incident is being investigated as a hate crime and simple assault.
WASHINGTON — Uber has banned a D.C. man’s business from its app after a WUSA9 report that showed the owner verbally berating a food delivery driver ─ yelling at him to “learn English.”
The news came Wednesday afternoon, less than 24 hours after WUSA9’s reporting.
The tense interaction caught on video between a food delivery driver and a D.C. business owner garnered a lot of attention across social media platforms in the region.
In the one-minute video posted Monday on TikTok by delivery driver Gregorio Amundarain, business owner Greg Harris is heard telling him to “Learn English! Learn it! You get money in America. This is-If you get money in America, learn English!”
At one point in the video, Amundarain responds, “No speak English,” to which Harris says “I don’t give a f—! Learn it! Learn it!”
Amundarain says he showed …