Blanding claims in her complaint that when the driver saw her, he locked his doors and tried to drive away after pulling up in a Mercedes-Benz vehicle.
She adds that when she challenged him, he informed her that she was too big to fit in the backseat and even implied that her weight would harm his tires.
“What do I have to do with your tires?” In the video, Blanding can be heard asking. According to her lawyers, Zach Runyan and Jonathan Marko,
The driver’s refusal to serve her was against Michigan law, which protects weight as a characteristic. Marko told Fox 2 that.
“I knew that it was illegal, and I knew that it was wrong,” likening the circumstance to refusing someone a ride because of their ethnicity or religion. Runyan underlined: “It is not only against.
