NYC cabbie may have to pay $25K for snubbing black passengers

For Cynthia Jordan, a 57-year-old vice president at a stock transfer firm in New York, it was just another day when a taxi driver refused to let her, a black woman, ride. “I’m gonna report you”, Judge Raymond Kramer noted in his decision.

“I said there has to be something else we can do”, said Jordan.

Jordan, 57, who first spoke to DNAinfo.com about the lawsuit, said she hopes the judgement will send a strong message to taxi drivers who discriminate and make them twice before refusing a fare based on race.

He allegedly told her to, “Go ahead”. Over the past two-and-a-half years, the city’s Commission on Human Rights filed five complaints related to taxi service.

“Discrimination against a taxi rider due to his or her race is unacceptable and a clear violation of the human rights law”, a commission spokeswoman said in a statement.

He said Jordan then argued with his passengers and called them “white bitches”.

But before Jordan could yell, “taxi”, again, Raza was putting out the welcome mat for two white women just 25 feet away, according to a Human Rights Commission report.

“It was her being wrong, and why am I the one getting accused?” “You picked up these two…white b–…instead of me and my family” at the driver.

“It’s not usually language I use, but I was angry at this time”, she said.

According to the judge’s recap, the women testified in February that the cab’s “available” light was on, but Raza told them he was going off duty. The TLC also fined him $200 after he pleaded guilty. “I just drove off. I didn’t want anything to do with this”.

The judge has since ruled that Raza must pay $10,000 to Jordan for compensation for his discrimination, as well as $15,000 in a civil fine. “She kicked my auto”.

Raza claims he never saw Holder and that he let out a passenger at Macy’s and then the two white women got into his cab.