CLEVELAND, OHIO — A rideshare employee is looking for a new job after being fired by Lyft. The company decided to sever ties after the driver, Cynthia Norman, picked up two men in their 20’s who tried to carjack her.
Lyft didn’t fire her because of the attempted carjacking, but rather because she used her legally-owned firearm to defend herself against the two attackers.
“I had to fight with these two men. I had one choking me from the back,” Norman told a reporter during an interview.
Norman said the other passenger, breaking Lyft’s COVID-19 protocol, insisted on sitting in the front seat.
She said he started punching her in the face as the man in the backseat choked her.
She was driving a rental car and refused to back down.
“They didn’t know I was going to fight back,” she said.
At that point, she grabbed her handgun that was in the center console and began shooting. While police aren’t sure if the men were hit, it did send them running and successfully ended the attack.
After successfully defending herself, Norman drove to the police station to let them know what happened.
Lyft, in pure anti-gun fashion, stands by their decision to ban Norman from being a driver.
Our “No Weapons” policy applies when you are doing business as a representative of Lyft, which includes times that you are driving for Lyft, as well as times that you are visiting a Lyft Hub.
This means that even in places where it is legal to carry a weapon, we ask that you do not carry a weapon on any Lyft property.
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Lyft, as well as Uber, both have no-firearms policies, and have fired many drivers over the years after they have successfully defended themselves. These rideshare companies would rather take their chances with unarmed employees, because if one goes down, they can hire a thousand more.
