FedEx driver listens as a Georgia man accuses him of trying to run over his dog and hurls racial slurs
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A FedEx employee in Douglasville, Georgia, captured a man on his phone camera yelling racial slurs at him while on his delivery route.
the Twitter account uncensored atl shared the video on Wednesday which has so far amassed 17 million views and counting.
The video shows a middle-aged white man with a large dog yelling at the man behind the camera, calling him “monkey” and subsequently the n-word.
The man claimed the employee tried to run over his dog and yells at him to go away.
Go ahead, park. Do you want to fuck with a white man? You run over my dog and I’ll show you how little black lives matter,’ the man said.
Barefoot middle-aged man hurled racial epithets at the Fedex driver while filming him
The video recording began with the employee catching the man calling him a “stupid monkey,” before the FedEx worker says out the window, “Go ahead.” Say it again. Say it again. Say it again. Say it again.’
‘I’m a what?’ asks the driver.
‘You’re a dumb f*****,’ says the man, now several feet away and yelling. He stands in the doorway of what appears to be a residential street.
Go ahead, park. Do you want to fuck with a white man? You run over my dog and I’ll show you how little black lives matter,’ the man said.
“No one is running over anything,” the driver intervened.
“Go ahead and get the hell out of there, you fucking idiot,” says the man, who is barefoot in shorts, a sweatshirt and a vest, holding a ball toss for his big brown dog.
The exchange ends with the driver saying, “Yeah, welcome to Facebook.”
To which the man with the dog replies, ‘Do you think I care about blacks?’ and he turns to walk away. His dog remained delighted with the ball throughout the exchange.
The man claimed that the FedEx driver had attempted to run over his dog, which the driver verbally denied during the altercation. Meanwhile, the man’s big brown dog seemed concerned about the ball in his owner’s hand.
The man was standing in front of a closed driveway that appeared to lead to a residential street.
It is not clear what happened between the two men in the moments before the video was recorded.
When contacted by local outlet Narcity, FedEx said it was upset by the behavior displayed in the video.
‘At FedEx, we believe that everyone deserves respect. The behavior depicted in this video is very disturbing.
“The safety of our team members and service providers is a top priority and we are reviewing the circumstances behind this matter.”
Twitter users in the comments were broadly supportive of the driver, who was praised for keeping his cool in the face of the man spouting racist epithets.
Many felt that the dog’deserve better‘ in terms of its owner.
Others suggested that FedEx stop delivering packages to the man’s residence.
‘It is a privilege to use FedEx services. @FedEx – do something,’ wrote an Elon Musk parody account.
“Well done to the driver for keeping his composure,” wrote Marcus Mossdorf. ‘We will all encounter pain and prejudice in life. Society is not perfect.
To be clear, I don’t condone this at all, but the driver here is the one in power. He has consciously exercised self-control,” he added.
Douglasville, Georgia is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, located about 20 miles west of downtown.
It has a population of about 35,000 people, the majority of whom (64 percent) are black.