Black delivery driver says two white men chased and shot at him in Mississippi, originally put on unpaid leave which Fed Ex currently rectified

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A Black FedEx driver in Mississippi says he was making deliveries late last month when he was chased by a pair of white men, one of whom fired multiple bullets into his vehicle as he tried to escape them.

D'Monterrio Gibson, 24, said he believes the men pursued him because he is Black and because they thought he didn't belong in their neighborhood. Now he's asking the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation to take the case from local police and for the men to face federal hate crime charges.

The incident has drawn comparisons to the encounter between Ahmaud Arbery, who was Black, and three white residents who chased him through a south Georgia neighborhood in a pair of pickup trucks for five minutes in February 2020

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Gibson, who lives in Utica, about 50 miles from Brookhaven, where the encounter occurred, said the incident has left him traumatized.

He said he dropped off a package on a street called Junior Trail at about 7 p.m. on Jan. 24 while wearing his FedEx uniform. He said he was not in a FedEx truck but in a Hertz van with the rental company's markings on the sides.

After the drop-off, a man in a white pickup truck began following him closely while honking his horn, Gibson said. He drove past a couple of houses and encountered a man standing in the middle of the road with a gun pointed at him, he said. The man was mouthing the word "stop," Gibson said.

Gibson said he swerved to get around the man, who started shooting toward the rear of the Hertz vehicle. He said he called his manager, who told him to return to the FedEx station. The pickup truck chased him all the way to an interstate, he said.

He eventually was able to get away from the pickup truck and called police to report what happened. He said a dispatcher interrupted him and asked whether he had been on Junior Trail.

"I said, 'Yes,'" Gibson said. "He was like, 'Well, I just got a call of a suspicious person at this address.'"

He told the dispatcher he was not a "suspicious person" and that he was just doing his job and had been shot at, he said. The dispatcher told him that had not been relayed by the person who reported seeing a suspicious person in the neighborhood.

Gibson said the dispatcher told him to go to the police department the next day to file a report.

When Gibson got back to the FedEx station, he said, one of his superiors inspected the van and found multiple bullet holes in the rear of the vehicle and on packages.

Gibson's narrative was corroborated by the police report.

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Gregory Case was arrested on investigation of conspiracy and Brandon Case on suspicion of aggravated assault, and they posted bail the next day on $75,000 and $150,000 bonds, respectively, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said.

Brandon Case did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment Thursday. Numbers listed for Gregory Case were no longer in service.

The Brookhaven Police Department and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation did not reply to phone and email requests for comment.

The population of Brookhaven is 60 percent Black or African American and 37 percent white, according to the most recent census data.

Gibson and his attorney said they believe the charges are too lenient.

"We are not satisfied with the charges at all," Moore said. "We believe they should be upgraded to attempted murder."

He said they were disappointed that Brandon and Gregory Case were allowed to wait almost a week before they turned themselves in.
And as for the unpaid part.


So... yeah, we'll see. I have to sadly say that thankfully no one was killed. But it's even sadder that we have to say this in order to.. what, sate ourselves? reassure ourselves it could be worse?

Editing in as of February 11th, Fed Ex has reinstated his pay.

 
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Oh, and don't forget: Rather than instigating a manhunt for two active gunmen, the police waited until they came to the station for an interview EIGHT DAYS LATER in order to arrest them. Would this have happened had the shooters been black and the delivery man white, or would there have been an armed SWAT response within thirty minutes?
 

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Like, I honestly think that is the most shocking part about this. The white guys allegedly chasing him? Easily par for the course. Don't have to stretch my imagination at all.

But for Fed Ex not to pay Mr. Gibson... and to think that's ok Post Floyd and Arbery? What the hell were they thinking?
 

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Like, I honestly think that is the most shocking part about this. The white guys allegedly chasing him? Easily par for the course. Don't have to stretch my imagination at all.

But for Fed Ex not to pay Mr. Gibson... and to think that's ok Post Floyd and Arbery? What the hell were they thinking?
"Bruh, you act like you never been shot at, get back out there."
 

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So is there some sort of social security for sick leave?
Sick leave, in the US, is far from a given, and even when you have it, you can't exactly expect to get a lot of it. I wouldn't be surprised if he only got 3-4 sick days a year, if that.
 

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Sick leave, in the US, is far from a given, and even when you have it, you can't exactly expect to get a lot of it. I wouldn't be surprised if he only got 3-4 sick days a year, if that.
I can speak to this pretty directly, having worked for UPS for a bit. This sort of job is very much "you're on the clock or you aren't". You get paid for the hours you work, you don't get paid for the hours you don't. You can take off a ton of time without repercussion, a fair number of people just spontaneously don't show up in the warehouses on any given day (delivery drivers are usually better than no call - no shows), and just don't get paid for that time. Which is good for job security but bad for pay, But also conversely, there's typically a lot of overtime optionally available, so the ceiling on compensation can go pretty high, particularly early December.

It's normal for someone at this type of company to take many days off in a year. It's not normal to get paid for the time off. Fed Ex was not making an exception by not paying him, they are rather making an exception by reinstituting his pay while he's not working.
 

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So is there some sort of social security for sick leave?
lol nope. In America, that would (somehow) be socialism and therefor would never work here in spite of working everywhere else.
 

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You know what's sad? I tried to Google which delivery company it was that THANKED the cops for gunning down their delivery driver in that hostage situation but there are so many stories that pop up when I Google "officers kill deliver driver" that I still can't figure out if that was FedEx or UPS (I am relatively sure it was UPS but I wanted to be sure before I made my sad joke about how little they care that their drivers are put in peril).
 

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You know what's sad? I tried to Google which delivery company it was that THANKED the cops for gunning down their delivery driver in that hostage situation but there are so many stories that pop up when I Google "officers kill deliver driver" that I still can't figure out if that was FedEx or UPS (I am relatively sure it was UPS but I wanted to be sure before I made my sad joke about how little they care that their drivers are put in peril).
UPS.
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Jesus fucking Christ. Hadn't heard of this (there are so many gun incidents in the US, the UK press has to pick and choose a few to report) until now.

So 11 cops opened fire in a street full of civilians, at perps who had a known hostage... what the actual fuck? They act more and more like a rival gang, with no responsibility to the people around them. Fucking scumbags.

Glad the hostage's relative explicitly said the cops murdered him.
 

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They act more and more like a rival gang, with no responsibility to the people around them.
Ding ding! We have a winner!

Cops in the US have little to no accountability and an insular warrior culture. The only thing they feel bound to respect is economic status, specifically that occupied by Rich Whitey. Everyone else is just a criminal in waiting who needs to be brutalized into compliance on a regular basis.
 

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I have a rule when dealing with people in delivery, and retail. They don't get paid enough to deal with my BS, so I don't create any. I don't know why shooting a delivery driver is a thing.