A Michigan man was charged Friday with allegedly assaulting a mail carrier over a “Kamala Harris for President” mailer that the mail carrier delivered to his mailbox.

Russell Frank Valleau, 61, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, was charged by Oakland County, Michigan Prosecutor Karen D. McDonald with assaulting a mail carrier.

“The defendant was allegedly upset that he had received mail regarding presidential candidate Kamala Harris and allegedly said that he did not want that ‘black b****’ in his mailbox,” according to press release from the Oakland County, Michigan prosecutor’s office said. “He then called the mail carrier a ‘black b****’ and threatened the carrier. The mail carrier used pepper spray to stop the defendant.”


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    The mail carrier used pepper spray to stop the defendant.

    Please let there be video. I need it.

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      I’m imagining an overweight man in his 50s just getting fucking obliterated while trying to assault somebody half his age who actually gets off their ass when somebody isn’t telling them to.

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    I try not to judge with incomplete facts…

    but damn, do I hope the fucker is now blind - you know, to ease the terrible pain of having to look at people with (assumption incoming) a different skin color from his. you are the problem. fuck you.

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      Depending upon local state laws, he may have also lost his right to vote, now that he’s a criminal. I’m sure he is glad to be relieved of that burden.

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      75% chance he’s secretly attracted to black women, but thinks it’s wrong for some reason, so he lashes out at them.

      We’ve seen this scenario play out a few too many times.

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    Another deranged goon from the MAGA party of hate, lies and violence. Take care out there.

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    The mail carrier did that racist asshole a favor. Assaulting a federal employee is a felony… that fucking moron. He should have sprayed enough capsaicin into his eyes that he would never see any presidential candidate or anything else again.

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      She, but yeah. It sounds like after she sprayed him down he was fully incapacitated by the time the cops got to him.

      At least he got a nice solid dose.

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    Wait we can do that? I’m in MI and get 5-6 Trump flyers a week. I don’t want that orange bitch in my mailbox.

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    Funny how today is the first day we’ve gotten any political fliers in my office, and the same day I see this. Didn’t take very long at all for a Magat to assault one of us over the election, and I guarantee it won’t be the last.

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    charged with allegedly assaulting

    Is this correct use of “allegedly”? The man allegedly assaulted someone, so he was charged with assault. Or they can just say “charged for allegedly assaulting”.

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      It’s a means for the news source to cover its ass. They can’t outright say it as a fact otherwise they run the risk of getting sued if the courts find the man innocent.

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        They can’t say that the man assaulted someone as a fact. But that the man was charged with assault is a fact. Alleged attack is not a charge, so “charged with allegedly attacking” is nonsensical. To cover their ass they can say “charged for allegedly attacking”, which shows that he was charged, why he was charged, and also adds the required “allegedly”.

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    He was charged with one count of ethnic intimidation, a felony, and one count of assault and battery, which is a misdemeanor…

    Huh? Shouldn’t the crime of actually harming someone be at least as serious as threatening to?

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      In this case there was a knife involved and clearly the mail carrier wasn’t threatening him (maybe his poor fee-fees) so that should be a felony. If he’d attack someone for doing their job he’d probably attack someone for stepping on his lawn or using his driveway to turn around.

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      There’s a lot more gradation in laws against actually hurting people. I’m guessing misdemeanor assault here means that an attempt was made, but maybe he punched the carrier once and the pepper spray stopped him. An aggressive threat and a fairly ineffective attack? That kinda makes sense to me

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        “Assault” is shouting and threatening, “battery” is actually making contact. It sounds like she got the pepper spray out in time to prevent him from touching her, whichbis a very good thing.