{"id":14469,"date":"2016-03-22T21:33:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T02:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14469"},"modified":"2016-03-22T21:33:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T02:33:04","slug":"video-4-cops-forcefully-arrest-black-brooklyn-mailman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/03\/22\/video-4-cops-forcefully-arrest-black-brooklyn-mailman\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 4 Cops Forcefully Arrest Black Brooklyn Mailman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Brooklyn Borough President calls NYPD&#8217;s arrest of Glenn Grays along mail route unjustified, racially motivated and potentially dangerous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 The recent arrest of an on-duty U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee in Crown Heights was unjustified, racially motivated and \u201ccould have been another Eric Garner situation,&#8221; Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said at a Tuesday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Grays, 27, was arrested by four plainclothes officers on March 17 on President Street, Adams said.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the arrest, Grays was nearly hit by an unmarked police vehicle as he exited his USPS truck, according to the borough president.<\/p>\n<p>He \u201cmade comments, as any New Yorker would do,\u201d Adams said \u2014 prompting the four officers in the vehicle, including one lieutenant, to jump out of their car and surround him on the sidewalk. <a href=\"http:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/bed-stuy\/video-4-cops-forcefully-arrest-black-brooklyn-mailman-0\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PEN Note: Warning video contains some vulgar language.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SjfGNQ6MVsc\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14470\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/brooklyn-mailman-arrested.jpg\" alt=\"brooklyn-mailman-arrested\" width=\"429\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/brooklyn-mailman-arrested.jpg 429w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/brooklyn-mailman-arrested-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Borough President calls NYPD&#8217;s arrest of Glenn Grays along mail route unjustified, racially motivated and potentially dangerous. DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 The recent arrest of an on-duty U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee in Crown Heights was unjustified, racially motivated and \u201ccould have been another Eric Garner situation,&#8221; Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams said at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14471,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14469\/revisions\/14471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}