After a video of a man in North Carolina getting into a verbal altercation with a Black woman cyclist in Fuquay-Varina went viral, the man was fired from his job, according to reports. 

The incident happened on Oakridge Duncan Road on June 20. The cyclist, who goes by Faith (@faith_irv_rides) online, has nearly 1M followers on TikTok because she documents her cycling trips. When she recorded and posted the incident, onlookers immediately galvanized and called foul. 

It began when Faith, a longtime cyclist, was finishing up a four-hour ride along the street when the man pulled up alongside in a truck to warn her about the route. 

In the video, he can be seen aggressively yelling at her and using profanities. 

“You're going to be f****** dead when these trucks come around and hit you and kill you," he said in the video. Faith told WRAL that when the driver first slowed down, she pulled over in an attempt to defuse the situation, but the confrontation went on.   

“He was also not ‘helping’ me, especially since my radar said he was coming and he started blaring his horn before he even got to me, passed me crazy close and never slowed until he stopped,” she explained to the outlet. “First thing he yelled was I shouldn’t be on the road. After I told him I was there legally…when he started reversing. Crazy!”

Faith can be heard in the video shouting back at the man as he began to drive away, but he reversed and shouted profanities again, eventually telling her to “not curse him the f— out” or he’d strike her.  

Through the sleuthing of her social media followers, the man was identified as 49-year-old Ronald Currin. His employer, A&R Enterprises—a land clearing and septic company based in Angier—confirmed that Currin was not on duty during the incident and was driving his personal vehicle. The company has since stated that Currin is no longer employed there.