A mayoral aide wants the book thrown at a racist cabby who refused to let her and her friend in his taxi because the two are black, she said.
Lolita Jackson, who works in the mayor’s Community Affairs unit, said a cabdriver blatantly sized up her and pal Segun Akande during a rainy evening in Kips Bay and sped off — even though his lights showed he was available for a fare.
“It was blatant, outrageous,” Jackson told The Post. “He drove right up to us, stopped, leaned over the passenger seat to see us, then drove away.”
Jackson, not a stranger to city bureaucracy, tried to remember the driver’s medallion number. She then called 311 to file a complaint.
She said this is the fifth time in six years that she’s been a victim of racism at the hands of cabdrivers.
“This is New York City 2010. How could this happen to us?” Akande said.
A hearing with an administrative law judge was held yesterday, but the driver who showed up clearly wasn’t the right one.
“This is not the driver,” Jackson said at the hearing. “The person was a Sikh. He had a purple turban on.”
The case was dismissed.