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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    7 hours ago

    Given the tone I might even take it as a threat on my life

    That is an unhinged and deranged level of xenophobia.

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      Guess you’re a bigot then. Both religious prayers i referenced were Christian. I was raised Christian. But you’re too ignorant of other cultures to really be calling others out on xenophobia. Check yourself loser.

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        4 minutes ago

        Making shit up online is fun. Strawman arguments don’t convince anyone of anything though just makes you look like a tool.