NYC lawyer says TLC racially profiled her in ‘intimidating’ LaGuardia encounter

A Harlem lawyer claims the Taxi & Limousine Commission threatened to bust her for acting as an illegal cab service when she dropped her nanny off at LaGuardia Airport.

Maria Victoria Bayoneto — a 52-year-old single mom — said she was the victim of racial profiling when TLC agents used “intimidation tactics” and surrounded her car before making the unfounded accusations.

“They were very firm,” the corporate lawyer, a native of the Philipines, told The Post on Sunday.

“They just kept asking the same thing, even though I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ “

Bayoneto then said the agents gave her an ultimatum.

“After a while [one

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