Florida authorities charged a male <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ms-13-gang" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MS-13 gang member</a> on parole with murder and other offenses after police said he killed and dismembered an Uber Eats driver making his final delivery to the assailant&#8217;s home last week.
Oscar Solis Jr., 30, allegedly killed Uber Eats driver — 59-year-old Randall Cooke — while Cooke was making his final delivery of the night to Solis&#8217; home in Holiday, Florida, on April 19, according to authorities.
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Demonic MS-13 felon on parole dismembers and kills Florida Uber Eats driver making his last delivery of night 😔 <a href="https://t.co/jJ7WORJM5L">pic.twitter.com/jJ7WORJM5L</a>
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During a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pascosheriff/videos/891481455280044" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news conference</a> on Tuesday, Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said that Solis &#8220;yanked&#8221; Cooke into his home and butchered him. According to a police affidavit reported by <a href="https://apnews.com/article/driver-dismembered-uber-eats-killing-florida-58f3225edbc076c34995fe8896c9be28?utm_source=ForYou&amp;utm_medium=HomePage&amp;utm_id=Taboola" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a>, authorities found the remains of Cooke in trash bags and a cooler, which also had a receipt with Solis&#8217; name on it.
&#8220;This was a horrific crime of passion,&#8221; Nocco told reporters. &#8220;This was demonic. What he did was demonic.&#8221;
Cooke reportedly told his wife via text message that he had one delivery left to complete before returning to their residence. After the victim&#8217;s wife didn&#8217;t hear from her husband, Nocco said she contacted the police and filed a missing person&#8217;s report later that evening.
&#8220;He was just a guy like everybody else, just trying to make a living for his family,&#8221; Nocco said.
Authorities were able to track down Cooke&#8217;s final delivery location through Uber Eats.
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Nocco said police searched around Solis&#8217; house the day after Cooke disappeared and attempted to make contact with the occupants. Police returned to the residence on April 21, where they could view surveillance footage given by a roommate of Solis, which showed Cooke making the food delivery until the camera cut off when he arrived at the door.
Video footage later showed two men carrying heavy trash bags outside. The other man allegedly accompanying Solis was not charged by police.
Jail records observed by The Associated Press report that Solis faces charges of murder while engaged in a robbery, failure to register as a convicted felon, and for parole violation.
Indiana authorities released Solis from prison in January after he served four years for an assault and burglary conviction, Nocco said. Upon his release, Solis&#8217; moved to Florida. According to the affidavit, Solis, who stands 6-foot-4, and weighs 315 pounds, worked security at a strip club.
&#8220;You&#8217;re talking about a violent individual that Indiana released and sent down to Florida,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They released him on parole. Unfortunately, now we have a hardworking guy, a loving husband, who is no longer with us because this violent individual killed him.&#8221;
Nocco confirmed Solis had been affiliated with the international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles, California, in the 1970s and 1980s Mara Salvatrucha, more commonly known as MS-13.
The announcement from Pasco County Sheriff&#8217;s authorities comes days after the Tampa Police Department arrested and charged a 38-year-old man for allegedly kidnapping and raping a female DoorDash driver in her early 20s, shooting a member of the victim&#8217;s family, and then committing a robbery.
Joseph Killins, 38, was arrested on Saturday in relation to a kidnapping and sexual battery that occurred on April 18 just after 11:00 p.m. at a Residence Inn hotel. Police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-doordash-driver-kidnapped-raped-during-delivery-at-florida-hotel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the suspect held the unidentified female delivery driver at gunpoint, forced her back into her car, and made her drive to the Belara Lakes Apartment complex, where he allegedly raped her.
According to law enforcement, family members of the DoorDash driver rescued her from Killins after tracking her cellphone location. When her family arrived, Killins allegedly fired multiple bullets at the victim&#8217;s kin, with one shot striking a family member of the victim&#8217;s girlfriend, before fleeing the scene.

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‘This Was Demonic’: MS-13 Felon Kills, Dismembers Florida Uber Eats Driver

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DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub are suing New York City for its “unconstitutional” caps on delivery fees.
As COVID-19 hit New York City in the spring of 2020, the City Council temporarily limited the fees that the delivery apps could charge restaurants — specifically, a 15% cap for online orders. The policy, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/business/food-delivery-lawsuit-ny-grubhub-uber-eats-door-dash.html">The New York Times</a>, was intended as a “lifeline” for restaurants, which complained over fees as high as 30% per order.
However, the City Council voted last month to make the regulation permanent.
The New York Times explains:
<blockquote>Girding the argument from food delivery apps is the idea that restaurants do not have to enter into agreements with them. The City Council does not regulate fees from other marketers that restaurants might use, such as Google, Yelp or online reservation apps. The fee caps chosen by the City Council are also arbitrary and not supported by economic impact studies, the lawsuit charges.
Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats have argued that third-party delivery apps allow restaurants to tap into a huge customer base that the apps have spent millions of dollars to cultivate.</blockquote>
&#8220;The Ordinance is unconstitutional because, among other things, it interferes with freely negotiated contracts between platforms and restaurants by changing and dictating the economic terms on which a dynamic industry operates,&#8221; the companies’ lawsuit <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/business/delivery-fee-lawsuit-new-york/index.html">argued</a>.
“Price controls increase delivery fees for consumers, and therefore lead to a reduction of orders for both restaurants and couriers,” Grubhub executive Katie Norris noted in a statement. “While Grubhub remains willing to engage with the City Council, we unfortunately are left with no choice but to take legal action.”
The Daily Wire has previously reported that businesses and workers are increasingly wary of New York City due to its harsh COVID-19 regulations — including lockdowns for purportedly nonessential businesses.
Last month, outgoing Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gov-andrew-cuomo-pleads-with-citizens-to-return-to-new-york-city">warned</a> the Association for a Better New York that unless residents who fled the city to work remotely elsewhere promptly return, the city will continue to struggle economically.
“Remember, we have to get people back and we have to get people back in volume,” explained Cuomo. “If you were to see a 15% decline of people coming back to New York City, that would have a devastating impact on the commercial market.”
Indeed, a report from <a href="https://www.nmrk.com/insights/market-report/manhattan-downtown-market-reports">Newmark</a> found that despite plummeting rental prices, office spaces in the Big Apple are observing record high vacancy rates. As of June, the vacancy rate in downtown Manhattan reached 21.1%; reports for <a href="https://www.nmrk.com/insights/market-report/manhattan-midtown-market-reports">Midtown</a> and <a href="https://www.nmrk.com/insights/market-report/manhattan-midtown-south-market-reports">Midtown South</a> reveal similarly high availability rates.
Meanwhile, Wall Street executives are reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bankers-are-begging-their-employers-for-transfers-from-new-york-to-florida">flooding</a> recruiters’ offices with requests to transfer from New York to Florida. Companies such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-goldman-sachs-considers-moving-asset-management-division-out-of-nyc-to-florida">Goldman Sachs</a> have recently considered new headquarters outside of New York City.
New York <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cuomos-new-york-has-the-worst-economic-rebound-in-the-nation-slowing-other-states-recoveries">lags</a> almost every other state in economic activity following last year’s recession. The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/business/us-economic-recovery-coronavirus">Back-to-Normal Index</a>, a project of Moody’s Analytics and CNN Business tracking economic recoveries across the country, reveals that New York is operating at 81% of pre-recession capacity — far below the national average of 92%.

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday said it is demanding that Uber Eats stop &#8220;misgendering&#8221; and &#8220;deadnaming&#8221; its transgender drivers as this causes them to be harassed.
&#8220;We are demanding that Uber Eats end its practice of misgendering and deadnaming trans drivers,&#8221; the ACLU wrote in a tweet Tuesday.
The left-wing civil liberties law group said that its client Laine Repic, a Kansas-based driver, has &#8220;faced harassment and discrimination&#8221; because the Uber Eats app shows the driver&#8217;s former name to customers.
Laine has supposedly contacted Uber Eats repeatedly, but Uber&#8217;s online food delivery platform has failed to make updates to its app, the ACLU claimed.
The ACLU added an exhortation to the Biden administration that President Biden take action to allow transgender individuals to receive a government ID that bears their preferred name and gender.
&#8220;President Biden has the power to prevent this dangerous misgendering on IDs,&#8221; the ACLU said.
&#8220;Everyone should have access to an accurate ID,&#8221; the ACLU added. &#8220;We’re asking the Biden administration to lead and issue an executive order so that trans, non-binary and intersex people can have IDs that reflect who we are.&#8221;
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BREAKING: We are demanding that Uber Eats end its practice of misgendering and deadnaming trans drivers.
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The group pointed to its petition urging President Biden to sign an executive order directing all federal agencies to allow transgender people to &#8220;self-verify our own gender and to include a gender-neutral &#8216;X&#8217; designation option on all federal IDs and records.&#8221;
&#8220;Trans, intersex, and non-binary people still do not have access to accurate federal IDs,&#8221; the ACLU said in the introduction to the petition. &#8220;This reality puts too many of us – particularly trans people of color and especially Black trans people – at risk of daily discrimination because our identification doesn&#8217;t reflect who we are.&#8221;
The ACLU has previously done extensive work <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-comment-dismissal-challenge-connecticut-policy-allowing-trans-student-athletes">defending</a> transgender clients, including transgender students who desire to compete against athletes of the sex that matches their gender identity. The group <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/the-coordinated-attack-on-trans-student-athletes/">said</a> there is a &#8220;coordinated attack&#8221; on transgender student athletes.
It is not the first time Uber has found itself in a controversy related to transgender drivers.
In 2018, some transgender drivers <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/08/transgender-uber-driver-suspended-tech-oversight-facial-recognition.html">found</a> that their accounts had been temporarily or permanently suspended due to an identity verification feature. Drivers must take a photo of themselves to verify their identity, and if the photo fails to match other photos of the driver on file, the discrepancy will be flagged.
Uber has previously expressed its support for LGBT people and outlined some of the actions the company is already doing to be more inclusive towards transgender people, including including &#8220;transgender services for our employees to support their transgender journey.&#8221;
&#8220;Uber believes that everyone has the right to move freely, safely, and without fear. And that, not only in the month of June but year-round, everyone has a right to pride,&#8221; Uber <a href="https://www.uber.com/us/en/pride/">said</a> in a statement for Pride Month, which is celebrated in June.
&#8220;This year, we&#8217;re committing to helping empower a better experience for our LGBTQIA+ community, and particularly the transgender community,&#8221; Uber said.

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During a turbulent summer of protests and violent riots regarding so-called “systemic racism,” numerous companies announced that they would only be offering certain services to customers based on race. Some of the most high-profile of those companies have since found themselves facing lawsuits for racial discrimination.
In June 2020, Uber Eats&#8217; CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/equality-uber-eats-giving-free-delivery-to-only-black-owned-restaurants">announced</a> in an email that the company would offer free delivery only to black-owned restaurants until the end of 2020. The company would &#8220;promote black-owned restaurants on its app, and that the service will not charge delivery fees to those restaurants ‘for the remainder of the year,’” and the company will also provide “discounted rides to black-owned small businesses ‘who have been hit hard by COVID-19,’” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/uber-eats-stops-charging-delivery-fees-to-black-owned-restaurants">Fox News</a> reported.
The state of Arizona launched a challenge to such racially discriminatory policies, and on Wednesday, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich <a href="https://www.azag.gov/press-release/attorney-general-brnovich-settles-race-discrimination-allegations-uber-postmates">announced</a> that his office “settled civil rights cases involving Uber Eats, Postmates, and DoorDash (Companies) regarding allegations of discrimination based on race. The Companies can no longer offer price distinctions based on a person’s race.”
“Even with the best of intentions, corporations can do the wrong thing. Altering the price of goods or services based on race is illegal,” said Brnovich. “My office opened these investigations and pursued these settlements to protect civil rights and ensure businesses offer their services and products based on equal and neutral criteria.”
The announcement stated that in fall 2020,&#8221; the AGO’s Civil Rights Division filed Divisional Charges against the Companies alleging public accommodations discrimination based on race,” alleging specifically that “the Companies’ promotions to waive delivery fees for restaurants owned by Black individuals unlawfully discriminated against non-Black owned restaurants and their patrons, in violation of the Arizona Civil Rights Act (ACRA).”
Following the settlement, these companies will “not offer financial incentives, advertise, provide any delivery fee discounts, or price-related discounts to customers in Arizona based on a restaurant owner’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or ancestry.” 
In addition, the companies will be required to “ensure that their employees and agents who develop Arizona promotions receive notice of the Company’s obligations under the settlement agreement,” that they “will not engage in discrimination or retaliation,” and that they “will continue to provide anti-discrimination training to their employees.”
In a statement to <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/doordash-uber-eats-race-discrimination-arizona-free-delivery">Fox Business</a>, Uber said it was &#8220;proud to have supported Black-owned businesses and we&#8217;ll continue to make it a priority.&#8221; 
&#8220;We have heard loud and clear from consumers that the ability to easily identify Black-owned restaurants on Uber Eats is a feature they want and appreciate,&#8221; a spokesperson added.
Meanwhile, a DoorDash spokesperson told Fox Business, &#8220;The ongoing health and economic crisis disproportionately devastated communities of color and highlighted disparities in opportunity for vulnerable populations. Furthering the long tradition of public and private sector efforts to break down barriers, DoorDash is proud to support Black-owned businesses and honored to do our part to lift up those who need it most.”
&#8220;While we adamantly deny any wrongdoing, particularly when government programs have offered the exact support DoorDash has provided, we’re ready to put this dispute behind us and return our focus to enabling equitable access to the merchants, Dashers, and customers we serve. We all have an obligation to elevate and support underrepresented communities, and we look forward to continuing to do so in Arizona and beyond,” they added.

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On March 23, Mohammad Anwar of Springfield, Virginia, a 66-year-old immigrant from Pakistan earning his living as an Uber Eats driver, was killed by two girls, ages 13 and 15. They carjacked Anwar, Tasered him and then, as he held on to the car (the source of his livelihood) in an attempt to stop them from stealing it, floored the gas pedal and crashed the car, killing him when he was thrown from the vehicle.
As reported the next day in The Washington Post:
&#8220;Anwar tried to force his way back into the car by climbing on top of the teen in the driver&#8217;s seat, (Detective Chad Leo of the Washington, D.C., police homicide unit) said. Before he could get all the way in, though, the 13-year-old reached over from the passenger seat, turned on the ignition and &#8216;manipulated&#8217; the gear shift, Leo said. With Anwar &#8216;hanging outside the car&#8217; through the open driver&#8217;s door, Leo said, the vehicle lurched forward and accelerated down the block, made a sharp right turn, struck a curb and overturned, landing passenger side up. Anwar was ejected and suffered broken bones and injury to his head.&#8221;
After the unharmed girls climbed out and joined the onlookers milling around the car, one of them could be heard yelling, &#8220;My phone is in there!&#8221; (The Washington Post, March 31) and, &#8220;He has my phone!&#8221; (CBS News, March 30).
I found no mainstream media that identified the girls as black.
In The Washington Post report cited above, there was no mention of the girls&#8217; race, just, &#8220;Two girls ages 13 and 15 have been charged with felony murder.&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s report on March 27 made no mention of race: &#8220;Two teenage girls have been charged in the carjacking death of an Uber Eats driver &#8230; The girls, 13 and 15, assaulted Anwar with a Taser while carjacking him &#8230; The younger girl is from the southeast section of DC, the older from Fort Washington, Maryland, police said.&#8221;
In a March 31 Washington Post editorial on the subject, there was no mention of the girls&#8217; race.
The New York Times never even reported the incident.
Why is this significant? Because white perpetrators of violence are always identified as such. When a white man engages in a mass killing, the first thing we learn, and are told over and over, is that he is white. If a white policeman kills a black man, no matter how justified (as in Ferguson, Missouri) or morally ambiguous (as in most other cases), we are reminded in every news story that the officer was white. In the very first New York Times report on the Atlanta massage parlor killings, the Times reported, &#8220;The suspect in custody is white.&#8221;
The mainstream media have a mission that has nothing to do with reporting truth. Along with the Democratic Party and the rest of the Left, their mission is to portray America — that is, its white population — as racist. Reporting that nonwhites have perpetrated violence — particularly against nonwhites — undermines that narrative, and these inconvenient facts are therefore consciously omitted. Or worse: The implication placed in people&#8217;s minds is that whites are the perpetrators.
This was my point in a previous column when I wrote: &#8220;Another New York Times article (about anti-Asian-American violence), under the headline &#8216;A Tense Lunar New Year for the Bay Area After Attacks on Asian-Americans,&#8217; opens with this: &#8216;The videos are graphic and shocking. In January, a local television station showed footage of a young man sprinting toward, then violently shoving to the ground, a man identified as Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84, who had been out for a morning walk in the Anza Vista neighborhood of San Francisco. He later died.&#8217; The Times piece never reveals the name or race of the perpetrator: Antoine Watson, a 19-year-old black man.&#8221;
Why? Because the Times wanted its readers to believe that Ratanapakdee, the elderly Asian American, was murdered by a white.
Truth, it is necessary to say again and again, is a liberal value and a conservative value, but it has never been a left-wing value.
Here is another example from just the past two weeks:
Last week, anti-black and anti-Semitic graffiti were discovered at Albion College, a school about 100 miles to the west of Detroit. As is usually the case with such incidents, police soon discovered that the culprit was not a white racist but a black person seeking to inflame anti-white hatred. Yet, here was how the Detroit Free Press headlined the discovery: &#8220;Albion Student Suspended Over Racist Graffiti.&#8221;
Nowhere in the article did the Detroit Free Press note that the suspended student was black.
America is drowning in left-wing lies. And it is being asphyxiated by the Left’s substitution of &#8220;social justice&#8221; for justice. The two girls, who committed a very adult crime, will not be charged as adults, will likely not be imprisoned and very possibly will not even be punished. And the Albion student — whose name has not been released — most likely won&#8217;t be punished either.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, &#8220;No Safe Spaces,&#8221; was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

PRAGER: Why The Left Ignores The Killing Of A Pakistani Immigrant Uber Driver

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A recent increase in demand for the ride-sharing service, Uber, might demonstrate that some consumers are ready to get out into the world again as COVID-19 vaccinations rise and cases remain at lower rates across the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations">COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker</a> shows that 21.9% of the total population is fully vaccinated against the virus and 61.4% of people 65 years of age or older have been fully vaccinated. <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases">Daily trends in the amount of COVID-19 cases</a> reported to the CDC also appear to remain at the lower rate that was reached in mid-February of this year.
In a <a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000155278121000198/e21218_uber-8k.htm">filing</a> with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, Uber stated that its &#8220;total company Gross Bookings reached the highest monthly level in the company’s nearly 12-year history&#8221; in March 2021.
The company said that it has had its best month for its mobility business since March 2020, &#8220;crossing a $30 billion annualized Gross Bookings run-rate, with average daily Gross Bookings up 9% month-over-month.&#8221; It also set another all-time record in its delivery business, &#8220;crossing a $52 billion annualized Gross Bookings run-rate in March, growing more than 150% year-over-year.&#8221;
In the filing, Uber stated:
<blockquote>As vaccination rates increase in the United States, we are observing that consumer demand for Mobility is recovering faster than driver availability, and consumer demand for Delivery continues to exceed courier availability. On April 7, Uber announced that it is increasing investments in driver incentives to improve driver availability in the near-term. We continue to believe that Uber is on track to reach quarterly Adjusted EBITDA profitability in 2021. </blockquote>
The company experienced a difficult year during the pandemic and had to let go around 25% of its staff and get rid of some of its businesses, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-posts-record-rider-demand-in-march-11618231447">The Wall Street Journal</a>. Since many drivers could not get enough trips to make the job worth their individual effort, they stopped providing the service. In response to the increase in demand, Uber recently announced an incentive program to get drivers back on the road.
Uber explained the program in a blog <a href="https://www.uber.com/newsroom/getting-drivers-back-on-the-road/">post last week</a>, saying, &#8220;We’re launching a $250 million driver stimulus to boost already high earnings for drivers. Boosted incentives and guarantees will help welcome existing drivers back to Uber and ensure first-time drivers do well as they learn the ropes.&#8221; Even without the stimulus money, however, Uber said that drivers are making a higher income right now as there are more consumers than there are drivers to give them rides. The company said that in certain cities, drivers are making more money than usual. In Chicago, drivers are making $28.73 median earnings per hour and in Philadelphia, drivers see even more than that at $31.03 median earnings per hour.
The company also recently announced that beginning in mid-March of this year, private-hire drivers utilizing its mobility platform in the United Kingdom will be treated as workers at the company after a court in the U.K. decided that formerly-employed Uber drivers were entitled to receive benefits and a minimum wage while employed there. This is expected to deal a blow to the business in the first quarter.
The Monday filing addressed the court decision, saying, &#8220;Uber has announced a historical claims settlement process to UK drivers. As a result, Uber expects to record a significant accrual related to these historical claims and other related costs in its first quarter 2021 results.&#8221;
In its blog post, Uber added that it is still requiring all of its passengers to wear face masks even though one-third of the adult population in America has gotten at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Uber Eats is offering free delivery to only black-owned restaurants until the end of 2020, the company&#8217;s CEO announced in an email on Thursday.
&#8220;Uber Eats will promote black-owned restaurants on its app, and that the service will not charge delivery fees to those restaurants &#8216;for the remainder of the year,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/uber-eats-stops-charging-delivery-fees-to-black-owned-restaurants">Fox News</a> reported.
The company will also provide &#8220;discounted rides to black-owned small businesses &#8216;who have been hit hard by COVID-19,&#8217; though it did not add how much of a discount would be given,&#8221; the report added.
“As a company, we believe that everyone has the right to move freely, no matter where they live or the color of their skin,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said via email to customers, according to the <a href="https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2020/06/uber-eats-calls-out-black-owned-restaurants-in-the-u-s-and-canada/">Detroit Bureau</a>. “We’re proud of how Uber has helped improve transportation equity over the last decade. But the reality remains that Black Americans often don’t feel safe to move freely in many places around our country. And they still face enormous barriers that others do not.”
“I wish that the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others weren’t so violently cut short,” Khosrowshahi said. “I wish that institutional racism, and the police violence it gives rise to, didn’t cause their deaths.”
The CEO &#8220;pledged that Uber will continue to crack down on discrimination, harassment and racism on its platform, and will hold its users accountable &#8216;to these standards of basic respect and human decency,'&#8221; Fox noted.
“I respectfully ask anyone not willing to abide by these rules to delete Uber,” Khosrowshahi stated.
The move has been criticized by some for its discriminatory racial bias.
&#8220;This is illegal,&#8221; Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles bluntly posted.
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&#8220;So [Uber Eats] is actually segregating restaurants by the race of the owner and offering different pricing on that basis?&#8221; questioned the popular conservative writer commonly known as &#8220;AG conservative.&#8221; &#8220;Does no one seriously recognize the issue with that? I thought it was a joke when someone sent it to me, but then saw it on the app.&#8221;
&#8220;Putting aside the obvious legal questions, the road to equality can&#8217;t be paved by discrimination,&#8221; he added.
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Putting aside the obvious legal questions, the road to equality can&#39;t be paved by discrimination.
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One commenter replied, &#8220;Put aside the whole white people thing but what about other minorities like Asians, Hispanics, Jews, Indians, etc? They don&#8217;t think these people are going to feel discriminated against and isn&#8217;t that going to naturally further racial divides?&#8221;
AG Conservative responded: &#8220;Yes. A smarter, and more justifiable, approach would be to target neighborhoods affected by the riots or looting. But instead, they are creating a tiered fee structure based solely on the race of the restaurant owner.&#8221;
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Yes. A smarter, and more justifiable, approach would be to target neighborhoods affected by the riots or looting. But instead. they are creating a tiered fee structure based solely on the race of the restaurant owner. <a href="https://t.co/TTaE1qkpyv">https://t.co/TTaE1qkpyv</a>
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Food magazine <a href="https://www.bonappetit.com/story/black-owned-restaurant-lists">Bon Apetit</a> is focusing on black-owned businesses, too, but in a different way than Uber Eats.
&#8220;As many of us have been inspired to stand in solidarity with the Black community, so has food media,&#8221; a story from Bon Apetit&#8217;s website says. &#8220;Across the country, restaurant critics, writers, and local food lovers have been pulling together extensive lists highlighting Black-owned businesses in their respective cities.&#8221;
&#8220;We wanted to share what they’re creating, from Google spreadsheets with updates on take-out/delivery options and GoFundMe links to websites that have long been celebrating Black-owned businesses and owners,&#8221; the site continues. “We will continue to update this page as more resources become available, and encourage you to use these resources now, and always. Let us know if you come across anything that would be helpful to add to this growing list by emailing us at <a href="mailto:staff.bonappetit@gmail.com">staff.bonappetit@gmail.com</a> with the subject line &#8216;Black-owned businesses.'&#8221;
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During the coronavirus shutdown, Americans have been advised to practice social distancing, which means avoiding crowded places, which include restaurants, coffee shops, bars, or large gatherings. That doesn&#8217;t mean, however, that people still cannot safely enjoy a meal from their favorite restaurants, provided that proper precautions are being taken.
According to <a href="https://www.cnet.com/how-to/food-delivery-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-follow-these-3-rules-to-stay-safe/">CNET</a>, food delivery during the coronavirus shutdown is still considered safe for the time being so long as DoorDash, Postmates, Grubhub, <a href="https://www.cnet.com/tags/uber/" data-annotation="true" data-component="linkTracker" data-link-tracker-options="{&quot;action&quot;:&quot;inline-annotation|Uber|CNET_TAG|221&quot;}" data-s-object-id="article-body;annotation">Uber</a> Eats, and Instacart remain up and running.
&#8220;There is currently no evidence that COVID-19 can be transmitted through food or food packaging, according to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" data-component="externalLink" data-s-object-id="article-body">CDC</a> and the <a href="https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-issues/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-frequently-asked-questions#food" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" data-component="externalLink" data-s-object-id="article-body">FDA</a>, though germs are known to live on surfaces up to nine days,&#8221; reports CNET. &#8220;The bigger potential issue is transmitting the new coronavirus from delivery person to customer, or vice versa, through coughing, vaporized air particles or other direct contact.&#8221;
To avoid any possibility of transmitting the virus through contact, delivery services are now encouraging customers to use the new drop-off options to limit the spread. Postmates has <a href="https://blog.postmates.com/introducing-non-contact-deliveries-ac2f23462909" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" data-component="externalLink" data-s-object-id="article-body">introduced</a> this feature as well as Instacart.
Even with those measures in place, people should still take further precautions as outlined by CNET. First and foremost, people should leave delivery instructions telling the deliverer to leave the food at the front door. People should also check to see exactly what precautions delivery services have implemented to ensure drivers are not transmitting the disease.
&#8220;For example, DoorDash is distributing hand sanitizer and gloves to drivers, and is working with restaurants to share some best practices for handling food at this time, like taping over ends of straws,&#8221; continued CNET. &#8220;Grubhub provided drivers and restaurants with the CDC&#8217;s recommendations for best hygiene and appropriate precautions for interacting with others. Uber Eats is also giving drivers car disinfectant, prioritizing &#8216;cities with the greatest need.'&#8221;
Beyond that, people should also immediately wash their hands for up to 20 seconds upon receiving the food and removing it from the delivery bags. Simply place the delivery bags and containers on a plate that can be thoroughly washed so that they do not come in contact with other parts of the dining room or kitchen. Use your own utensils.
Lastly, CNET recommended that people tip their food delivery drivers at least 20% extra during this time.
Over the weekend, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti <a href="https://la.eater.com/2020/3/13/21178517/coronavirus-los-angeles-mayor-garcetti-eating-out-restaurants-press-conference">cautioned residents</a> against dining in restaurants or bars while encouraging people to order takeout.
“If you were going to go out to dinner, maybe you don’t go out to dinner,” he said, “but order out of that restaurant. Let’s prop up those local businesses that are here in Los Angeles.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said that a full lockdown in the United States may be happening.
&#8220;We need to be very serious about – for a while, life is not going to be the way it used to be in the United States,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/15/politics/anthony-fauci-national-lockdown-bars-restaurants-cnntv/index.html">he said.</a> &#8220;We have to just accept that if we want to do what&#8217;s best for the American public.&#8221;

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