A Toronto cab driver was dragged nearly 70 feet on Wednesday by an Uber car after he repeatedly banged on its windows during an anti-Uber protest.
The driver said he attacked the car because he was hoping to make a point. "If this guy really followed the law, he would have stopped," the worked-up man said in between breaths, who accused the Uber driver of having "no insurance."
The man later told a reporter he was "only trying to get his attention."
Suntharesan Kanagasabai,50, seen in video confronting #Uber driver, says he was "only trying to get his attention." pic.twitter.com/yzQ6h4mjnW— Jenny Yuen (@SunReporterYuen) December 9, 2015
People who viewed the video on Twitter called for the man to be arrested.
Toronto taxi drivers are protesting what they see as unfair business practices by Uber, which has cut significantly into their bottom line in recent years and, some say, threatens the very existence of the city's taxi industry.
"We are fighting for our livelihood, we must take some action right now," Sajid Mughal of the iTaxi Workers Association told CBC. "We have been suffering for almost a year, if we don't take this action, this suffering will carry on. We must stand up and say enough is enough, this is illegal activity."
Both drivers, and an unlucky passenger in the Uber car at the time, were unhurt in the incident.