Woman calls the cops after spotting black UPS delivery man

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A White woman in Atlanta called the police on a Black UPS delivery man because he made her “nervous.” The man, Nedrick Peters II, captured the confrontation on video and shared it on Instagram. He turns the camera to show his dolly with several packages on it, which he was delivering in the neighborhood. At one point he even shows what appears to be a UPS uniform he’s wearing.

In the video, the woman can be heard saying the UPS employee looked “suspicious” and that her car had been broken into recently. “I’m going to need someone’s information to check up on you because I don’t understand why you’re walking around this neighborhood with a bunch of packages,” she said at the start of the video.

A second UPS worker, who appears to be white, arrived and explained that the black man works with him, but the woman had already called the police.

“Literally a hate crime,” one person wrote on Instagram. “Look how she acted when the WHITE man in the same uniform shows up. No questions or anything about who he is.”

It’s unclear what occurred next, but the now-viral video caused an uproar.

https://www.bet.com/news/national/2019/11/29/white-woman-calls-cops-on-black-ups-worker-because-he-looked-sus.html

[underpants]

1. This pisses me off

We own stock in UPS.

No seriously this is ridiculous.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Stupid Friggin White Person on the loose.

And you can not fix Stupid!

[mr_lebowski]

3. Well, not an excuse, but she's on drugs of some kind, pretty damn sure ... seems real hopped up ...

Or maybe just drunk.

This gonna a hangover she won't soon forget. I can't believe people are still doing this kinda shit.

If you're really that worried, just call the cops & let 'em sort it out.

[Newest Reality]

4. Gee,

That's what I call a mental illness from the way she sounds. Pathological xenophobia combined with extreme paranoia, plus she seems delusional enough there if she can't associate a person with packages as a delivery person and becoming the one to harass someone else while complaining.

Meds might help there and a some therapy, too. She is the one to be suspicious of. You never know what she might do

[safeinOhio]

5. The new Package Peggy.

[MrScorpio]

6. People call this woman either drunk or mentally ill. I don't agree with that at all

She’s merely operating on her conditioning as a white person living in America. Different white people would react differently if they encountered a Black uniformed delivery man in their neighborhood, but that’s how she reacted.

It’s pretty much the very definition of white fragility. https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/white-people-freak-theyre-called-race-hesaid/

First of all, it’s quite clear that upon first seeing the uniformed UPS delivery man, she didn’t see a uniformed UPS delivery man, she only saw a Black man existing in a space where she, in her own mind, had designated where Black people shouldn’t be.

Upon seeing this Black man, she reacted defensively. She did that because she was having an episode of race based stress. These reactions are varied, her’s was to be argumentative, confrontational and accusatory.

She also has a deep sense of entitlement. The mere presence of a Black man within her eyesight inside of this whites only space that she had designated for herself is a challenge to her entitlement.

I could go on, but one thing for sure is that this demonstrates why I’m always wary whenever I’m in some place that could be described as a whites only enclave. That could be a building, a block, a neighborhood or a town. If I ever look around and see that I’m ever in a place that has nothing but white people in it, my first reaction is to look out for fragile white people suddenly having an episode of race based stress.

It’s part of my survival techniques while living as a Black man living in America.

[flvegan]

7. Agreed.

[jaysunb]

8. +1 n/t

[JonLP24]

9. I feel blaming mental illness for bad acts is stigmatizing for those that actually do have mental

illness.

I always appreciate your posts on these matters. I'm glad I came across you because I came across something and not sure what to do with it. This is off topic but the jurors really screwed up in the Trayvon Martin case.

This is related to the star witness in the case. This is a study by linguistics.

52 As it was, the closest to an African American juror was Maddy, the Latina, Puerto Rican juror, who was
reportedly more sympathetic to Jeantel, less baffled by her speech, and the holdout for a guilty verdict for
Zimmerman until the last minute (Bloom 2014:17–21). Interestingly enough, Juror B37 reportedly ridiculed
Maddy herself for ‘talking funny’, leading Maddy to say to Bloom: ‘I didn’t know I didn’t speak proper English’ (p. 15).

(snip)

Stay woke! Here we use a vernacular expression from the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which means ‘to remain vigilant and informed’, and not just
on linguistic matters. For instance, Yale Law School students Olevia Boykin
and Christopher Desir, along with their professor Jed Rubenfeld (Boykin,
Desir, & Rubenfeld 2016), drew the public’s attention to striking disparities
in the rates at which Black men were killed by police compared to White
men (from 2010 to 2012, twenty-one times greater for men ages fifteen to
nineteen). They also proposed the adoption of a ‘necessity’ rather than a ‘reasonableness’ standard for the use of deadly force that is already the standard
for the Department of Justice. Those of us in linguistics need to step up and
do our data-finding and consciousness-raising too. Language lives in society,
and so must we.
R
https://cpb-us-west-2-juc1ugur1qwqqqo4.stackpathdns.com/blog.nus.edu.sg/dist/d/3920/files/2017/01/RickfordKing_2016-2889rsv.pdf

This is all probably old information but what I found interesting is they will use interpreters for drug investigations but in courtrooms they are not used. I'm lucky I grew up around people with different backgrounds or I would probably be as out of touch as those jurors.

[Tight5]

11. Too Many Assumptions

If I may correct some assumptions you appear to be working from...

I live on the street where this incident occurred, saw the guy who made the video on the same day and know the woman in question. This is hardly a whites only space. It's in-town Atlanta. She has white, Hispanic, black and Asian neighbors...all within eyesight of her front door.

The UPS employee in question was not in a UPS uniform...at least not the full outfit. At best he had a vest on with a small UPS logo. Like I said, I saw him around the same time and did not recognize him as a UPS employee. Iv'e heard that UPS is not providing uniforms to seasonal employees this year...a big mistake on their part.

As for the circumstances that likely played a role in this incident, our neighborhood has been hit hard by a spike in crime...auto break-ins (this woman's car has been hit twice recently and she can't afford to replace the broken window), home burglaries and package thefts. When we talk to Atlanta Police they tell us to call 911 whenever we see something suspicious, however trivial it may seem. You can make a case she should not have confronted the UPS guy but it's hard to fault her for looking out for security in our neighborhood.

Context is important in situations like this. I hope I've helped clarify a bit.

[marble falls]

12. BS. So what if he wasn't even wearing any sort of UPS uniform, let alone a patch you ...

think is too small.

So you think being black in a high crime area is probable cause.

[MrScorpio]

13. OK, when the white UPS guy showed up, why didn't she challenge him like she did the Black UPS guy?

And white people undergo race based stress in public, racially mixed areas all the time.

If a Black guy in a UPS vest with packages happens to be making deliveries in a neighborhood, how is that suspicious?

[gopiscrap]

14. welcome to DU

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Let me get this straight, she's 'nervous' about this guy yet she gets up in his grill to start shit?