POLICE BRUTALITY WATCH: 4 COPS FORCEFULLY ARREST POSTAL SERVICE EMPLOYEE IN BROOKLYN
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."
