A New York taxi driver who refused to pick up Al Roker has been fined $500 after pleading guilty to service refusal violation.
Roker had filed a complaint in November and wrote on social media he and his son had been ignored for racial reasons.
He reported that the driver picked up a white man nearby.
The commission says it was the driver’s second refusal violation.
The weatherman was taking his 13-year-old son Nicholas to a doctor’s appointment in New York when he said a yellow cab driver snubbed him because of the color of his skin.
Roker, aged 61, branded the driver ‘ignorant’ and ‘racist’, filing an official complaint after the incident.
Al Roker took to Twitter to vent his frustration.
It is illegal for yellow cab drivers to refuse to pick up a passenger because of their race, disability or chosen destination within the five boroughs of New York City.
