A UPS driver was fired after a video appeared showing him making racist comments about a Latin customer – a police officer – while stopping at the Wisconsin home to make a delivery, the company said.
The UPS driver was caught on video walking to the Milwaukee home on December 17 and giving his speech before hitting or ringing the bell, according to footage posted online and shared on Tuesday by Forward Latino, a group of nonprofit defense.
“Now you don’t get f —— nothing because you are a stupid mother ——“, the delivery man can be seen and heard saying as he writes on the box and glues a piece of paper to the door. He adds: “I can’t read, write and speak f —— English language.”
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The package was supposed to go to a Milwaukee police officer, but it was never delivered, Forward Latino President Darryl Morin said during a news conference on Tuesday.
The clip was shared last month by the police officer’s mother, Shirley Aviles, who wrote: “This racist UPS driver was trying to deliver to my son’s home. My son has a ring video system and captured the UPS driver ON THE VIDEO SAYING IT !! “
In a statement to Fox News on Wednesday, a UPS spokesman said the company had fired the delivery driver and that “there is no place in any community for racism, bigotry or hatred”.
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Morin said the Ring bell system started automatically recording the visitor’s video at 6:48 pm, when motion was detected.
“He never knocked on the door or rang, pressed the bell to get the attention of the person inside and try to deliver the package,” said Morin.
“The only information this driver had that could trigger this profound hatred was the name on the package. The recipient, the person [to] to whom the package was addressed, he had never met this individual in his life. “
The package recipient was at home at the time, Morin told Fox News.
Morin said on Wednesday that UPS responded to several Forward Latino requests for a conversation on the matter, but had not yet contacted the victim or his immediate family – just a distant relative. Meanwhile, a UPS spokesman said the company “contacted the family to offer our deepest apologies” when it learned of the December 18 incident.
Forward Latino is asking for a meeting with UPS employees and, among other things, for the company to donate money to an appropriate benefactor “as an act of goodwill”.