Terrifying moment Florida Uber driver pulls gun on female rapper who insulted her appearance
The disturbing incident involved rapper Krissy Celess - also known by her stage name Bomb A** Krissy - who was riding with a friend in Hollywood, Florida, on Tuesday when tensions with their Uber driver escalated into a dangerous encounter.
A video of the confrontation, which has since gone viral, shows the unidentified driver pulling a firearm and aiming it directly at the two women after she was allegedly insulted over her appearance.
'You got them crazy eyes!' the budding rapper shouted at the driver, moments before the situation took a frightening turn.
Just prior to that, the driver - visibly agitated - shut the car's center console, revealing a firearm in her right hand while holding a cellphone in the other, which appeared to be connected to an ongoing call.
'You're harassing me,' the driver says, turning wide-eyed toward Celess in the backseat. 'Get out of my vehicle right [expletive] now.'
'I am not harassing you,' Celess calmly responds, recording the confrontation, which she later posted to her Instagram page.
'Get out of my vehicle!' the driver yells again, gripping her phone.
The call operator on the line attempted to de-escalate the situation: '911 ma'am, what is your address?'
'She doesn't want to get out of my vehicle!' the driver shouts, as Celess calmly interjects, 'No, she just pulled a gun.'
The woman behind the wheel continues screaming, 'Get out of my vehicle, you are no longer in the ride! Get out! Get out of my vehicle right now!'
Celess, slowly backing away, calls out again, 'She has crazy eyes,' as she exits the car. The driver then reacts instantly, raising her firearm toward the rapper and her friend - just inches from Celess's phone camera.
'Oooh, ooh,' Celess exclaims, stepping back. 'She wanted to do it anyway, she wants to,' she says while walking to the back of the car to snap a photo of the driver's license plate.
'Don't worry, you're going to go viral,' she calls back at the driver, who speeds off in rage, the rear passenger door slamming shut from the force.
The up-and-coming rapper later told WSVN the ride turned terrifying after she tried to give directions.
'I said, "Hey, the turn is right here. You're going to make a left,"' Celess recalled. 'And she was in the middle lane and she was like, "Oh, you don't have to tell me. That's what I have a GPS for." It just escalated so quickly.'
Becoming emotional, Celess told the local outlet that during the terrifying moment, she could only think of her 4-year-old son.
'I was just thinking about my son. I wanted to…,' she said, her voice trailing off. 'I just never expected anything like this to happen.'
Celess captioned her viral post - now with over 74,000 views - 'an @uber driver just pulled a gun out on us. Help us get her off the streets before she potentially harms another passenger.'
Uber has since responded to the video, revoking the driver's access to the app while the company investigates.
'This is extremely concerning. We removed the driver's access to the app and are continuing to investigate,' a spokesperson said.
No injuries were reported and no arrests have been made as of now.
Meanwhile, Carlos Dominguez, an attorney for Celess and the other passenger, told WSVN that they intend to pursue legal action against Uber for what he described as an alleged instance of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
'I would argue that the Uber driver was extremely aggressive, and the reaction of pulling a gun was extremely excessive,' Dominguez stated.
'You know, emotions can sometimes spur out of control because of a simple disagreement, but those disagreements do not necessitate a firearm to be pointed at you.'
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