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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:42 am 
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USPS worker verbally and racially abused, then fired.
Videos of the assault (I watched these, and then had to search for more details. So INCREDIBLE):



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A certified postal delivery in Hingham, Mass., got ugly when, after signing for a letter, a woman decided she wanted the signature card back because the mail was addressed to her husband. When the USPS employee refused, he was subjected to a racist verbal assault that ended with a physical attack.
And what was the USPS employee's reward for remaining calm during this ordeal? He says he was fired.
All the details related to the story are presently unknown. While there are possible suspects as to the female attacker's identity, the mail carrier behind the clip has not named her. However, YouTube poster 'hugsonamic', who uploaded the two videos of the attack, has revealed he was removed from his position as a postal employee after the incident.
In a comment submitted beneath the first YouTube video, hugsonamic explains how he was waiting for the “US Postal Services to tell me why there has not been an investigation, which was the reason that I was fired.”
Adding to that, his comments attributed to the second video explain there was no trial, and that the U.S. Postal Inspection Service remained inactive. When asked why he did not simply drive away from the woman's vitriol, hugsonamic said it was unsafe to do so because she was too close to the vehicle, and at times held on to it.
He later learned that the woman in the video was the babysitter for one of the police officers who responded to the incident, but that only leaves more questions than answers in our opinion.
“I've just learned both the police department and the court have dropped the case, she is free, and no charges against her. I was never sent a noticed (sic) by the court to appear for hearing nor trial. And a year since that happened, USPS postal inspection service has not investigated this matter,” comments left by the ex-postal employee repeated.
The videos, which we have embedded below, are hard to watch. After spending several minutes blasting the postal worker with racial slurs, the woman seemingly strikes out at him and screams a demand that he “Give me my signature!”
Upon asking why he has been slapped, the woman tells him to stop making things up, adding that: “You killed Martin Luther King, you niggers turn on each other, you’re stupid... you’re dumb, you can all go under...”
[Note: This horrific incident goes from bad to worse in video two from 1:28 to the end.]
For now, what the public has seen is easily tagged as a shameful act of racism. However, according to comments from hugsonamic, there are a total of four videos detailing the attack. While the police have seen them all, the public has not.
If those missing videos show her side of the story, then they had better be seriously damning on the postal worker’s part to come close to explaining the woman's rage. Still, even if they were, it still doesn’t excuse the assault or the vile racist remarks. There's just no excuse for what she said.
Sadly, although the entire story remains a mystery, that hasn’t stopped Internet users from gathering around and hunting down suspects based on still images from the video and the comments made by the woman in them. We feel for any innocents that get dragged into the witch hunt.
We’ve reached out to hugsonamic for more information and have also sought official comment from the U.S. Postal Service. We’ll update this article with more information as and when we have it.


Source article: http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201045/6413/U-S-postal-worker-verbally-and-physically-abused-by-racist-woman


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:30 pm 
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What. The. ****.

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I refuse to watch any of this when it starts in the middle of the fight. I did read the article though...
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For now, what the public has seen is easily tagged as a shameful act of racism. However, according to comments from hugsonamic, there are a total of four videos detailing the attack. While the police have seen them all, the public has not.
If those missing videos show her side of the story, then they had better be seriously damning on the postal worker’s part to come close to explaining the woman's rage. Still, even if they were, it still doesn’t excuse the assault or the vile racist remarks. There's just no excuse for what she said.
Unless, of course, it was equally as vile, abusive and racist.

If the guy had a case, I'd tell him to take it to court. Seeing's how he's courting public opinion instead, I reserve outrage for a later date.

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Wow. What a **** ****.


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I refuse to watch any of this when it starts in the middle of the fight. I did read the article though...
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For now, what the public has seen is easily tagged as a shameful act of racism. However, according to comments from hugsonamic, there are a total of four videos detailing the attack. While the police have seen them all, the public has not.
If those missing videos show her side of the story, then they had better be seriously damning on the postal worker’s part to come close to explaining the woman's rage. Still, even if they were, it still doesn’t excuse the assault or the vile racist remarks. There's just no excuse for what she said.
Unless, of course, it was equally as vile, abusive and racist.

If the guy had a case, I'd tell him to take it to court. Seeing's how he's courting public opinion instead, I reserve outrage for a later date.



I would find it very unlikely that the postal worker went on an outrageous white abusing racist rant, then changed his emotional state 100% and started recording. Personally, I don't think I would've been able to hold my composure for nearly as long as he did. Maybe the missing 2 videos are him losing his **** and beating the hell out of an old white woman. After her racist rant, I kind of want to see those too, with popcorn, and cheering.


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Given the questions that were brought up even by those folks in the article that are obviously siding with the postal worker, releasing the two earlier recordings would settle the year long matter.

Then again, I like to have all the facts available when making a decision and when they're purposefully withheld I suspect there's more to it than it seems.

I'll reserve outrage 'till I see all the evidence. It could be that I support the postal worker, but he'll have to come clean first.

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He should have rolled up the window and called the police ;)

Ooh, or sprayed her with some of that bear mace they carry. That would have been hilarious. Ooh, or slid the door open as hard as he could with her arm inside the window...

And then drove off singing

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I agree with Taskiss, I need to see the whole video before final judgment, but that woman was certainly a *****. The one thing I'm curious about is what the union's roll was in all this, assuming he belonged to it. The postal union is quite powerful and it's actually pretty difficult to fire a letter carrier for such a minor thing, although that leads to my next issue. If she had signed for a letter, but didn't open it, and then realized her mistake and wanted to return it, the letter carrier absolutely should have given it back and then either completely blotted out her signature if it was a return receipt that's part of the letter that the sender requested, or if it was just a post office form for their own records he should have torn it up and confirmed it with her. I know this from experience.

Oh and the other thing...why the hell was he videotaping all of this? That leads me to believe that he's either a bit cautious and savvy, or he might be playing some angle...who knows.


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Oh and the other thing...why the hell was he videotaping all of this? That leads me to believe that he's either a bit cautious and savvy, or he might be playing some angle...who knows.


Or there was some history with her that made him feel compelled to have a camera/phone handy...


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I guess I assumed that postal vehicles have gone the route of in-truck cameras just like cop cars have.


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Without seeing the whole thing, it's hard to pass judgment. But still, the driver would have to have done some pretty serious crap to put things in her court, or to at least balance it out.

What slays me is her statement of "I'm not a racist."

Wow. Just what sort of mindset would you consider racist then, lady?

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