Warning: Videos contain graphic language some viewers may find offensive and disturbing.
USPS mail carrier Hugson Jean, 47, of Roslindale, MA ,was delivering mail to Erika Winchester, of Hingham, MA, when he was verbally and physically assaulted by the 60 year old woman, and it was reordered on his cell phone video.
Almost a year went by before Jean posted the videos on YouTube which have now gone viral and picked up by the National and Worldwide press.
In the videos Erika Winchester is demanding that the letters she signed for be taken back and the signed cards of her accepting the letters be given to her. The mail carrier said he cannot do that and Winchester became very angry. She called him the "N" word several times, told him that she had a friend on the Police department that would arrest him and lock him up forever.
Hingham police have assigned extra patrols to the home of a Winchester because
the recently posted videos of the incident have gone worldwide, while her name address and phone number has been circulating on the Internet.
Hugson Jean, said he does not want any harm to come to his former customer, the video has drawn so much attention that TV stations and other media have descended upon the woman’s home.
The victim, Hugson Jean, told his supervisor at the post office what had happened and showed him the videos. Jean was subsequently fired from his job because he says the United States Postal Service "did not want to get involved in this assault." He said the USPS never investigated the racially charged incident. "They thought if they did not deal with it, it would just disappear," he said.
Jean who was fired, worked for the USPS for nine months and has not been able to find employment since, said that a year was long enough to wait for some kind of resolution. The Union he said, agreed there was compelling evidence to support him, but ultimately sided with the USPS in his firing. He said the case, which is currently under appeal, should have gone to arbitration.
Jean said he posted the video last month on YouTube to draw attention to the case.
A police summons was issued for Erika Winchester to appear in court on November 6, 2009 to face the charge of assault and battery/hate crime.
According to the Police, Jean told them that he did not want to press charges when they talked to him immediately following the incident. At the hearing on Nov. 6, 2009, Jean’s attorney asked that the charge not be issued but be held in abeyance for a year and dropped if there were no further incidents.
However, Jean said while he did not want Winchester arrested, he thought she should be prosecuted. He said he was baffled when told what the police said about asking to have the charges dropped. He said he was never notified about the hearing and has been unable to obtain a transcript.
According to the Hingham Journal, in a telephone interview, Jean claimed that his supervisors "laughed it off" when he showed them his cell phone video. He claims they failed to tell him that Winchester had been banned from the Post Office previously.
As you watch the videos you will hear that the mail carrier, Hugson Jean, stayed calm, did not over react while he was being verbally and physically attacked by Erika Winchester while most people in his position would not be so passive.
Again, I want to remind you that the videos contain graphic language some viewers may find offensive and disturbing.
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