A 61-year-old man faces multiple criminal charges after allegedly assaulting a female postal carrier upon receiving a flyer in the mail featuring Vice President Kamala Harris.

**(CBS DETROIT) — **A 61-year-old Farmington Hills man faces multiple criminal charges after he allegedly assaulted a female postal carrier Thursday evening upon receiving a flyer in the mail featuring Vice President Kamala Harris.

Investigators say Russell Frank Valleau was allegedly upset about receiving the particular piece of mail and told the postal carrier that he did not want that “Black b****” in his mailbox. He’s accused of yelling derogatory, racist and sexual remarks about Harris and the carrier, calling the postal carrier a “Black b****” and lunging at her with a knife.

The postal carrier used pepper spray on Valleau to stop the attack. Farmington Hills police later arrested him in a neighbor’s yard.

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    It’s insane how these people can’t tell the difference between a delivery person and a true believer.

    Oh wait, they can’t, because in their twisted little religious brains they’re identical.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    These are the people who call others snowflakes. And here is a guy who can’t handle getting a piece of paper in his mailbox. Makes sense.

  • cybersandwich@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I’d never really thought about this, but I know felons can’t vote, but what about if you are in jail awaiting charges? How does that work?

    Just getting access to a ballot seems like a challenge. Don’t you have to request an absentee ballot in advance? If you are in jail, you don’t go to the polls obviously.

    Did this guy just screw himself out of a vote?

    • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      Possibly. He probably could vote by mail if he thinks to request a ballot, but he might think he’ll be out by election day, or he might not trust mail ballots thanks to the Fanta Menace demonizing them.

      BTW, the thing with felons voting is state by state, so it’s not a universal thing. Some states allow felons to vote once they’ve completed their sentence, and I think there’s even a couple that allow felons to vote from prison.

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Generally you need a final entry of judgment for that type of penalty to apply. So, you lose you’re franchise after sentencing. Absentee voting is possible, but most people are not held indefinitely in jail pending their court appearances.

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      So… will they keep him in pre trial confinement until after the election? Repubs owning the libs 1 vote at a time… uh… wait…

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    19 hours ago

    Investigators say Russell Frank Valleau was allegedly upset about receiving the particular piece of mail and told the postal carrier that he did not want that “Black b****” in his mailbox. He’s accused of yelling derogatory, racist and sexual remarks about Harris and the carrier, calling the postal carrier a “Black b****” and lunging at her with a knife.

    Completely normal behavior.

    I added a reminder on Oct 8 to check this piece of shit’s sentence. Hopeful that he serves time. Political violence is bullshit.

  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Is that one exclusive case or are there a lot of people who take a knife for murder at the needle drop?

    Seems like the world went insane, and insanely fragile.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        Their word choice could be a little better but if you understand the various degrees of Nazism 1930s Germany, this kind of rings true. Most nazi party members weren’t these dyed-in-the-wool SS types with full knowledge of the gas chambers; but they certainly conveniently looked the other way and enabled and benefited from it just the same. Naturally, many of these would continue to radicalize. Ignorance, greed, apathy, psychopathy, sure… Varying amounts at the individual level — yet all volunteer to reside under the same unifying banner.

  • cnirrad@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    I wouldn’t want to see the orange bitch in my mailbox, but if I did I’d just throw it away, like a normal human being.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    and told the postal carrier that he did not want that “Black b****” in his mailbox.

    “That’s okay, sir. I’m only authorized to put letters and packages in your mailbox. Bitches are forbidden to be put into mailboxes by federal law no matter what their color.”