Posted on 07/08/2020 6:13:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
A Florida man has been arrested for brandishing a gun and shouting racist slurs at a Black homeowner, in a June 14 incident caught on video. According to a report by WSVN, 58-year-old Joseph Fucheck accused Dwayne Wynn of stealing from his own mailbox. Authorities have charged him with aggravated assault with a firearm with prejudice, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, but prosecutors are also investigating this as a hate crime.
Fucheck reportedly pulled up to Wynn's home in a red Jeep and put something into his mailbox, while Wynn was standing across the street speaking to a neighbor. He walked over to check what the delivery was, and Fucheck came back with a gun in his hand, not believing that Wynn was on his own property. During the altercation that followed, Fucheck repeatedly bragged about his military credentials which have not been verified. Prosecutors soon discovered that has a lengthy criminal history and is a convicted felon.
"If it was your property, why didn't you come over there? If it was your property, why didn't you come over there?" Fucheck said disbelievingly. The hand-delivered note was reportedly an offer to buy homes for cash. When Wynn asked why Fucheck was carrying a gun, the outrage began.
"You're damn right I carry a [expletive] gun!" Fucheck reportedly said. "Damn right I'm going to carry a gun because I'm a 35-year Navy SEAL, and I was the head of the SWAT Team in Hillsborough County. That's right! Go look at my Purple Heart and take my tags."
Wynn responded: "Is this Hillsborough County?" to which Fucheck replied: "Run my tag! Run my tag if you know it all. I'll find out if that's your property right now." Wynn urged him: "Find out! Find out!"
Thankfully, Fucheck returned to his car, though he shouted racist slurs all along the way. Wynn called out in disbelief as Fucheck drove away, and Fucheck responded: "That's right. That's what you are." 0comments
Fucheck was arrested on Tuesday and brought to court on Wednesday, where he told a judge that he is "not physically fit to stay in jail." The judge ordered him to remain in jail at least until Monday when his bond hearing is scheduled. Prosecutors made the case that Fucheck was motivated by racism alone in the violent encounter.
"He just, he really just lashes out at Mr. Wynn," said Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle. "There was no provocation. It's going to be an enhanced penalty of a hate crime because clearly that all those violent acts were caused by that person's racism." She added that Fucheck could face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty.
And of course the media just had to run with the story.
That is true. One can only put USPS mail in one. When I was a kid on a paper route we knew to not put the paper in any mail box.
Amazon packages are frequently given to the post office for the final leg of delivery which is why they end up in your mailbox. Only the USPS can use the mailbox and they are zealously protective of that privilege.
Oh that explains it! Why didn't you say so before? Then everything is OK. Say and do whatever you want. /sarc
Guess he doesn’t know that black people get mail?
That makes sense. We now get Sunday deliveries, btw.
Tags go on clothing, license plates go on cars. Drives me nuts.
At one time it was. The condition things are now. I don’t know. And it was a nono to put the flag up whit no mail in the box. I know that because when I was young some friends where playing in the front yard and decided just for fun put yje flag on the mailbox up to get the mail man to stop.He stopped and was not amused. He turned the motor of his car off, got out of his car, walked to the front porch, went up the steps and knocked ob the front screen door. Mama came to the door. He talked with her for a minute and left. Mama walked off the porch went over to an oak tree, broke a limb off for a switch, called to her and wore my butt out right there in front of all the kids.
Career criminal? A Biden supporter, who is racist in the same way Biden is, surprised that a black man could own a house?
One of these things is not like the others.
One of these things just doesnt belong.
Apparently these publication is a ‘bomb thrower’ because they claimed, in the opener of the article, “...arrested for brandishing a gun and shouting racist slurs at a Black homeowner...”
In Florida you can be arrested for ‘brandishing a gun’ in public..............
That is how I have always understood it. Even though we buy and install our mailboxes, I think they can only be used by USPS. This Fucheck dude is wrong every way possible.
“And it was a nono to put the flag up whit no mail in the box.”
No worries - they leave the flag down and tuck the flyer between the flag and the side of the mailbox. I don’t believe anyone has faced repercussions for doing that, so it’s probably OK.
Local kids who want to pick up pocket money doing yard and farm work on their summer vacations put out these flyers and we’ve hired some good help that way!
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