Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, shown on video assaulting Shohel Mahmud after he began reciting prayer in Arabic

A New York woman who pepper-sprayed a Muslim Uber driver while he was praying has been indicted by the Manhattan district attorney on hate crime charges.

Jennifer Guilbeault, 23, is shown in a surveillance video repeatedly pepper-spraying her Uber driver, Shohel Mahmud. The assault took place in August on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, near the corner of east 65th Street and Lexington Avenue, shortly after Mahmud began reciting a prayer in Arabic.

Guilbeault’s former employer, the public relations and marketing firm D Pagan Communications, wrote on X it is aware of her actions and “don’t condone this behavior”.

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        5 days ago

        lol I called you a dingus for making a what I saw as a dumb comment and the mods took offense and deleted it to protect you.

        I agree that some people will ask bad faith questions in bad faith as an effort to derail or disrupt actual debate. But I think this a poor example and debatable at best. Sorry I called you a dingus I guess. That better mods?