Video Captures California Woman and Her Boyfriend Yelling Racial Slurs At Black Amazon Driver’s, The Woman Now Faces Hate Crime Charges

Amazon delivery driver Kendall McIntosh says he was just trying to do his job, when a woman and her boyfriend chased him down hassling him while spewing racial slurs.

At approx. 7:54 p.m. on April 18 in Berkeley, California, officers said they responded to a call of a disturbance involving an Amazon driver and another driver. Investigators said the woman driver and her boyfriend believed they saw a package delivery truck speeding through the neighborhood. Then followed the truck for a distance, and confronted McIntosh in an encounter during which the driver “used force to prevent the package delivery person from leaving and used hateful language disparaging of people of color.”

The woman was identified as 35-year-old Julie Warland, who has been arrested by police on hate crime charges. Video footage of the incident taken by bystanders of the encounter that McIntosh told KRON4 left him feeling “scared and unsafe.”

“Instantly just started cursing me out like, first sentence I’m getting cursed at,” McIntosh said. “Very derogatory language, you know I was getting constant F-bombs thrown at me. I was getting just racially profiled from the jump.”

“That’s when the harassing started happening. I was just trying to do my job and she wouldn’t allow me to, she closed both double doors in the van I was trying to leave out of,” he continued.

McIntosh says Warland’s boyfriend blocked him in from leaving by standing behind the delivery truck while Warland even entered his vehicle for a few minutes and attempted to take control of the steering wheel.

“His girlfriend also jumped inside my van as I was trying to back up and grabbing onto the steering wheel. She did that two times in a row,” McIntosh said.

McIntosh got out of the vehicle, but says he was still a victim of yelling and racist language.

The delivery driver told the news outlet, he’s relief that neighbors took the time to record the incident.

“What constantly was running through my mind was you know it could be me in handcuffs instead of her so no matter what the situation is, just protect yourself. If you feel like you have to videotape it or anything, definitely do that because I felt like if there wasn’t a video. It wasn’t being recorded, she probably could’ve gotten away with saying this,” McIntosh said.

Walrand has been arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment, battery, using offensive words, and willfully threatening someone based on their perceived characteristics. As of now, unclear if the boyfriend faced any charges.

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