Law & Crime reports:
Russell Valleau, 61, is accused of attacking a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier on Thursday, Farmington Hills police said in a statement. Police had responded to an emergency call from the area, located 25 miles northwest of Detroit, at around 5 p.m.
“Officers spoke with the mail carrier who reported that an intoxicated male approached her delivery vehicle because he was upset that she delivered political campaign ads for Vice President Kamala Harris,” police said in a statement emailed to Law&Crime.
“The agitated suspect was shouting racist, sexual and derogatory remarks about both the Vice President and the mail carrier.” Valleau allegedly “produced a knife and lunged at the mail carrier,” who then, “in fear for her life,” pulled out her postal service-issued pepper spray and unloaded it on the accused attacker, police said.
Read the full article. Valleau was arrested after police found him hiding in a neighbor’s yard. He faces two years on “felony ethnic intimidation” and assault charges.
Man fed up over receiving Kamala Harris flyers knife-attacks mail carrier who is forced to use pepper spray to defend himself: Police https://t.co/hLb7psDJQ0
— Law & Crime (@lawcrimenews) September 30, 2024
A Michigan man, 61, was arrested after assaulting a postal carrier who delivered a flyer featuring Kamala Harris. He told the postal carrier that he didn’t want that “Black b****” in his mailbox and then threatened her with violence. https://t.co/DIlREaWx3b
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 27, 2024