POLICE BRUTALITY WATCH: 4 COPS FORCEFULLY ARREST POSTAL SERVICE EMPLOYEE IN BROOKLYN (3472 hits)
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — The recent arrest of an on-duty U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee in Crown Heights was unjustified, racially motivated and “could have been another Eric Garner situation," Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said at a Tuesday press conference.
Glenn Grays, 27, was arrested by four plainclothes officers on March 17 on President Street, Adams said.
Prior to the arrest, Grays was nearly hit by an unmarked police vehicle as he exited his USPS truck, according to the borough president.
He “made comments, as any New Yorker would do,” Adams said — prompting the four officers in the vehicle, including one lieutenant, to jump out of their car and surround him on the sidewalk.
A cellphone video recorded by a bystander shows Grays, in full postal uniform, being questioned and arrested on President Street as his postal truck idles nearby.
At the beginning of the video, Grays, standing in a doorway, is approached by the officers, who ask for his ID.
"My ID's right there on the side of the truck," Grays says.
"Let's go get your ID," an officer says, motioning to the truck. But Gray declines, saying that he is delivering his packages. Shortly afterward, the officers begin to handcuff him.
One officer can be heard telling Grays to "stop resisting" as he is being handcuffed.
"I'm not resisting," Grays says in a frustrated tone.
"Yes, you are," the officer says. "Stop resisting."
A second officer says to Grays, "You're going to get hurt unless you give me your f*cking hand."
This is a shame people can't even deliver mail in peace and make an honest living anymore without being harassed by police!! I mean goddamn, the uniform, truck and packages weren't enough identification for them?? I hope the brother sues them and win. Did the police even say why he was arrested?
Wednesday, March 30th 2016 at 5:02PM
Truth B. Told
Check this out!
How many times are we going to sing the same song with the same malady whining and complaining when God has anointed me to lead us out of bondage and slavery in White America and into a country of our own consisting of the seven Confederate states I have named?
Again, let's stop talking about it and let us start talking about our country that we are soon to have! In our own country our mail men who will be Black Americans just like us can deliver our mail in peace since the police will also be Black Americans like us.
Don't you all want to be sovereign free in a country of our own; with I will own prophet, our own religion and our own spiritual book have been complete self-determination?
Isn't that's what your whining and complaining is saying and you don't have the common sense to understand what you are saying and how you feel about being abused by White Americans?
I am the way and there's no other way for Black Americans to stand up unless I help you are and you want to be helped up!
Wednesday, March 30th 2016 at 6:17PM
Harry Watley
Harry do you know what the 5 senses are? I'll tell you:
1. Lend me fifty CENTS,
2. You don't have no common SENSE,
3. The Bible says don't commit SINS,
4. Do something about those foul SCENTS coming from you,
AND
5. Stop bringing your pathetic ass on this forum SINCE nobody's really interested in listening to you!
Wednesday, March 30th 2016 at 6:39PM
Siebra Muhammad
Truth B., it was very disturbing watching that, I can't imagine what the charges are that they arrested him on. They looked like a bunch of thugs wearing hoodies and bubble vests riding in a black Impala. The man did absolutely nothing other than react to an unmarked car that almost hit him. Who wouldn't yell at them NOT knowing they were really cops?
Wednesday, March 30th 2016 at 6:51PM
Siebra Muhammad
Given that Mr. Grays is a federal employee and was on duty when the event occurred, it looks like he has a good case. The police, knew they were wrong. He was arrested for no reason. At no moment was he resisting arrest. They kept saying that to him but he wasn't and it clearly shows that. Thank goodness this was all caught clearly on camera. Hopefully this incident escalates to something that can't be swept under the rug.
Mr. Grays also said he hasn’t yet returned to work. Hopefully his employment wasn't affected because of being arrested on the job.
He's still in good standing with the National Association Of Letter Carriers labor union.
Thursday, March 31st 2016 at 6:49PM
Siebra Muhammad
Siebra,
You and Mr. Truth needs to take the challenge to elevate your intelligence and respond to the things I say about you and your Islamic belief instead of criticizing me thinking you are making me look bad!
I made the point and it is my prophecy since I claim to be Black America's first genuine prophet that our only permanent solution is a country of our own. Our country will consist of exactly 7 former Confederate states. Without God annexing this piece of territory from the United States of America our condition and situation will never change. So, you can see how much important it is that we have a country of our own. This is only something that only God can do. This should arouse your intellectual curiosity is God really in our midst in the body of Harry since Harry claim to be our first genuine prophet!
Neither Elijah Muhammad nor Mr. Farrakhan claim to be Black America's first genuine prophet and therefore God was never with Elijah and neither is God with Mr. Farrakhan. But, God is with me.
So, take the challenge and respond to the things I say in your best intellectual sense instead of criticizing me!
Thursday, March 31st 2016 at 7:24PM
Harry Watley
Thousands and thousands of responses have been made Harry and your idiocy has no limit.
Thursday, March 31st 2016 at 7:38PM
Steve Williams
I never said that no one responded to my claim that Black America's only permanent solution is having our own country! My point ass-hole is that the responses were criticism rather than analytical and rational explanation why it is a wrong concept that Black Americans should not have our own country.
A response of criticism is a response that does not reach the threshold of intellectually and forensically showing that I am wrong.
For example, seven years ago when we encountered each other you thought that you were smarter than me and suggested that I lead Black Americans into the Arizona desert to build solar panels and sell them to the United States government.
I had to explain to you even though it took a while for you stupid ass to understand that my prophecy and divine position is not about some camping trip in Arizona desert. Since then I have come a great distance in your mind that I can see how well you respect my intelligence and leadership that you now criticizes me like the others do rather than analytically and forensically explain why I am wrong to want a country of my own even though I am not your prophet! If you are going to engage in a dialogue with me let that dialogue be of a high degree of intelligence, analytical thinking, and rational reasoning! But, please know criticism because only idiots do criticism because they have no intelligence to express factual answers.
So to say thousands and thousands of response has been made is meaningless since they were nothing more than criticism. Criticism comes when you all can not reach the high bar of my intellectual level and spiritual sophistication that you all defaults to criticism. It should easily be understood and accepted why I am so spiritually intelligent is because I am a prophet and no one else is. No prophet of God was the people smarter than the prophet was and you all know that.
Thursday, March 31st 2016 at 9:20PM
Harry Watley
