Politics & Government
'Go Back to Your Country... This is Trump Land': Postal Worker Allegedly Yells Abuse
The subject of the shouts was a man "apparently of Hispanic descent," according to allegations in a Cambridge man's complaint to USPS.
CAMBRIDGE, MA — The U.S. Postal Service is mounting an investigation after a worker in Cambridge allegedly yelled "This is Trump land" and ordered a man of apparent Hispanic descent to leave the country.
Yarden Katz, identified by The Boston Globe as a fellow in the department of systems biology at Harvard Medical School, posted his letter of complaint to USPS on Twitter this week.
In it, he describes a bearded white postal worker berating the man outside the Shell gas station at the corner of Webster and Cambridge Streets Wednesday afternoon.
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"Go back to your country," Katz alleged the postal worker yelled, "This is Trump land. You ain't getting your check no more."
My letter to @USPS about what I witnessed today in Cambridge, Massachusetts. #Trump pic.twitter.com/MyeAQvP28l
— Yarden Katz (@yardenkatz) November 9, 2016
USPS has replied on Twitter that the claims are being investigated, and management "will take appropriate action." A spokesman echoed that assertion in a statement shared with the Globe, adding that the postal service "does not tolerate or condone behavior of the type described in this tweet.”
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In his message, which USPS confirmed to the Globe it has received, Katz wrote, "This is repulsive, racist behavior and I hope it will be followed up on seriously."
The tweet has since seen more than 4,700 shares, and been "favorited" 3,500 times and counting.
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