{"id":26503,"date":"2019-05-31T09:37:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T14:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26503"},"modified":"2019-05-31T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T14:37:32","slug":"ohio-postal-carrier-caught-on-camera-spraying-dog-behind-fence-with-pepper-spray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/05\/31\/ohio-postal-carrier-caught-on-camera-spraying-dog-behind-fence-with-pepper-spray\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio postal carrier caught on camera spraying dog behind fence with pepper spray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sinclairstoryline.com\/resources\/embeds\/jw8-embed.html?client=googima&amp;file=https:\/\/content.uplynk.com\/c6817fda1b3c454586b3ef06d3262ea6.m3u8&amp;autostart=false\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 26px 0px; color: #121212; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><span class=\"dateline\">UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio \u2014\u00a0<\/span>An Upper Arlington man said a US Post Office carrier pepper sprayed his dogs, who were safely behind a privacy fence. Tom Martin said the whole thing was captured on his doorbell camera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 26px 0px; color: #121212; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">&#8220;I saw him spraying his pepper spray underneath the gate,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Leaning down, spraying his pepper spray.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 26px 0px; color: #121212; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Martin said he watched it all unfold in real time on his phone. More at <a href=\"https:\/\/myfox28columbus.com\/news\/local\/postal-carrier-caught-on-camera-spraying-dog-with-pepper-spray-in-upper-arlington\">Fox Columbus<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"index_storyEmbed__3wV7\">\n<div class=\"sd-embed-container\">\n<div class=\"sda-ImageEmbed\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myfox28columbus.com\/resources\/media\/63a07f36-bdf5-4e69-a97f-d562a6869a36-medium16x9_TerriPostalworkerspraysdog2.jpg?1559251257020\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sda-ImageEmbed-caption\" style=\"width: 620px; color: #666666; line-height: 15px; font-style: italic; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Open Sans'; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<p>An Upper Arlington man said a US Post Office carrier pepper sprayed his dogs, who were safely behind a privacy fence. Tom Martin said the whole thing was captured on his doorbell camera. (Courtesy: Tom Martin)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #121212; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: -0.5px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">USPS statement: &#8220;The actions in this video are unacceptable employee behavior. The Postal Service neither condones nor tolerates this type of alleged behavior by any employee. The Postal Service is currently investigating the complaint and depending on the results of this investigation, appropriate corrective action will be taken consistent with the provisions of the applicable contractual agreement.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio \u2014\u00a0An Upper Arlington man said a US Post Office carrier pepper sprayed his dogs, who were safely behind a privacy fence. Tom Martin said the whole thing was captured on his doorbell camera. &#8220;I saw him spraying his pepper spray underneath the gate,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Leaning down, spraying his pepper spray.&#8221; Martin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26503","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=26503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26505,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26503\/revisions\/26505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}