A high-end wedding photographer and his Indian-American family were subjected to the hateful wrath of a fellow traveler who hurled sickening insults at them after their United Airlines flight landed in Los Angeles, disturbing footage shows.
Pervez Taufiq said he had just flown into Los Angeles from Cancun last week with his wife and three sons when he was confronted by another flyer who had been on the same flight onboard a transfer bus.
He said the foul-mouthed woman “harassed” his son who was seated next to her on the plane and then shouted racist taunts during the bus ride that he caught on camera.
“Your family is from India, you have no respect, you have no rules, you think you can push everyone, push, push, push,” the woman told him as he recorded on Nov. 24. “That’s what you think you are. You guys are f–king crazy.”
After Taufiq told the woman she should tell him again to have “more curry, right?” she then replied she was going to pull out her phone “to record your f–king tandoori ass,” according to the video he posted on social media.
When the father told someone off-screen that the woman should be removed from the bus for being “rude and racist,” she then accused him of being “racist” toward her, according to the video.
The loud-mouth woman then implied he wasn’t American but Taufiq shouted back that he was born in the US.
At the start of the video, she also flashed both middle fingers at him.
“It’s one of those things you feel like an out-of-body experience with,” Taufiq told The Post on Sunday. “We’ve seen things like that on the internet, we just never thought we’d be in one.”
Taufiq, who grew up in Boston, said he first interacted with the fellow passenger during the flight when he went to check on his 11-year-old seated a few rows ahead of the rest of the family.
As he checked on his son, the woman, who was sitting in the same row as his son, was annoyed as she tried to brush past him, asking if she could get to her seat, he said.
“I was like ‘oh, yeah, sorry’ and then I moved to the side and she got to her seat and that was it,” Taufiq said in an interview.
Taufiq said he learned only after the plane landed that the woman had allegedly asked her son if he was Indian, where he was from in the country and threatened that she was going to talk to his parents.
On the shuttle bus between the plane and the terminal, Taufiq accused the woman of telling his children to shut up as the family was talking, sparking the on-camera verbal altercation.
The footage shows United staffers going up to the woman as Taufiq shouted, “Get off the bus, racist.”
A bystander told United workers the woman was instigating the trouble, and she was eventually removed from the vehicle, according to Taufiq.
Taufiq believes the woman was “clearly” drunk during and after the flight.
An email to United was not returned Sunday night.
Taufiq and his wife work as photographers for fancy events around the world, including more than 200 weddings per year. Because of their jam-packed travel schedule, the couple homeschool their three young boys.
Taufiq has received dozens of supportive messages after he posted about the incident, including journalist Katie Couric commenting, “Good God. What is wrong with people? (Actually you don’t need to answer that.) What a sick, sick person. And so sorry your children had to be exposed to this.”
“It’s been refreshing to see how many people have reached out and just made sure we’re OK,” Taufiq said.