Ohio Man Arrested After Video Surfaces of Him Berating Black Uber Driver, Calling 911 to Make False Claim
“We are in your neighborhood, tell me where to go,” Ahmat said. Winterman responding saying she was going to call 911.
“Sir, call them, call them,” Ahmat replied.
“He does not know where the hell he is,” Winterman told the 911 operator.
“Um…OK,” the operator replied.
“He is threatening me and I’m not getting out unless I know where I’m at in the neighborhood,” Winterman added.
“No one is threatening you. You are intoxicated,” Ahmat said.
After Winterman got off the phone with 911, he told Ahmat, “I hope to hell you get shot,” adding “n-gger!” before getting out the car. Winterman then hit Ahmat’s vehicle. When Ahmat got out the video ended, but according to the driver Winterman told him to remember “you are Black and I am white,” then punched him in the shoulder. Then, Winterman fell and began wiping blood on Ahmat’s car before police eventually came to the scene.
Winterman told WLWT he had didn’t fall but was punched and left with multiple broken bones. He also said he suffers from Tourette’s syndrome and had no control over what he was saying in his explanation of the racial slur. Winterman was dropped off about a block from his home.
Ahmat says he provided Uber with a copy of the footage the next day however, his access to the app was removed. Along with calls for Ahmat to be reinstated, CAIR-Ohio is demanding that Uber provide monetary compensation for work time lost and damages.
Winterman has since been charged with one count of ethnic intimidation, disorderly conduct along with criminal damaging. Winterman was bond was set at $26,000 during a June 10 hearing.