FedEx is facing backlash and calls for a boycott on social media after one employee said he and another were fired following a viral confrontation with a customer in Leesburg, Ga.
“#BoycottFedEx” sat at the top of Twitter’s list of trending items in the country into Wednesday night as a video shared of an interaction between two workers and a customer racked up million of views in a matter of hours.
The short video, which was also reported on by NBC News, seems to capture the last moments of a confrontation between the workers and the customer.
At the start of the clip, one of the drivers, who is black, can be seen standing next to their truck telling the customer, who appears to be white, “But you didn’t have to come out here cussing at me like that like some child.”
As the driver begins to walk back to the delivery truck, another man recording the confrontation off screen tells the customer, who also appears to be holding a recording device, “You can record all you want. I got you.”
When the driver begins to enter the truck, the customer then asks him, “Where you going?”
“Man, I ain’t finna waste my time with you. You got my information,” the driver responds. “They’ll find me. They’ll find me. You need to get your glasses back on.”
As the two deliverymen begin to pull off, the customer could then be heard saying he thought the two men were going to be “waiting for cops.”
“Yeah, I thought you were gonna whoop my ass, too,” the driver responds back.
One of the workers who shared footage of the confrontation said in a tweet that the conflict began as he and the other deliveryman tried to drop off a package.
“All we did just delivered his package, mind you, he was in the house,” he wrote in a tweet, adding “it was quick stop.”
But the worker, whom police identified as Antonio Braswell, said as soon as he and the other deliveryman were getting ready to head out, the customer started to exit his house “cursing and threatening us and we just apologized but he kept escalating the situation then kept saying he would whoop our black asses.”
Shortly after, Braswell said the police were called and the man started to follow them. “He kept following us then he pulled out his phone to record us and start playing the victim role. We drove off at first but they yelled ‘f–k y’all,’” he wrote in a series of tweets detailing the incident.
“So, we stop the truck and that’s when I started recording the incident. … after the video the police came and we told our side of the story & the man said to the police ‘they look like they would’ve broke into my house while my wife is there,’” Antonio continued.
After the incident, Antonio said that FedEx called him and told him to remove the video from social media and then fired both deliveryman.
It’s bad enough that so many white ppl believe it’s ok to confront blacks, calling them the “n” word, but now essential workers, trying do their job are being harassed by ignorant whites who believe they have privilege. What’s even worse us when you have the police to go to the white induvidual, who was the aggressor, and listen to their complaint, wuthout asking a black person what happened. The police are part of the problem too. When does WHITE PRIVILEGE stop?