By Olivia Scheck
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — A taxi driver accused of racial profiling settled a discrimination suit claiming he refused to drive a cancer patient because he was black, the New York Post reported.
The plaintiff in the case, Daniel Shaneyfelt, 51, said he hailed the cab outside Mount Sinai Hospital the afternoon of Oct. 1, 2009, and asked the driver to take him to Brooklyn, according to the Post.
The driver, Mohamed Ebrahim, initially agreed, but changed his mind when Shaneyfelt's African-American boyfriend got into the car, Shaneyfelt told the paper.
The boyfriend had been receiving cancer treatment at the hospital, the Post stated.
Ebrahim maintained his innocence, claiming that he never even stopped to pick up the men, the Post said.
"I didn't see them," he told the paper.
"I pick up many black guys. What's the problem?"
Still, the driver agreed to pay $2,000 to avoid a trial, according to the Post.
"I didn't want too much trouble," Ebrahim told the paper.
