A Black delivery driver in Georgia is safe after a white man blocked her on a dirt road and approached her while allegedly holding a gun behind his back.
Brittany BriShaye, an independent contractor for Walmart’s Spark, had just delivered a package to a private compound in rural Bostwick.
As she left the house and drove the nearly mile-long road toward the main thoroughfare, a man she didn’t know emerged from an outbuilding and began aggressively flagging her down.
“I didn’t know him and [he] seemed aggressive the minute he saw my car,” she wrote in a September 26 Facebook post. “As I got past him, he started beating on my window, saying, ‘Stop this damn car.’ I still kept driving, looked in my mirror, and saw him take off running to a truck.”
She said that after he jumped into his truck, he cut across a field to catch up to her. It should have been a regular workday, but suddenly BriShaye was fearing for her life.
In the video circulating online, the man drove ahead of her, forcing her to stop, then approached her car with his hand behind his back, holding what she says was a gun.
He motioned for her to roll down her window, which she refused. She shouted through her windshield, “I delivered a package. You coming up to my car; I don’t have to stop my car for you. You hitting my car like I owe you something.”
The man apparently operates a business, Advanced Powder Coating Concepts, from the property, which made the incident especially perplexing for BriShaye.
She said he went “straight into attack mode,” yet “he does business with a lot of people in the area, so there’s always traffic in and out.” She was grateful the situation didn’t escalate further: “Cause this could’ve went so wrong.”
But when she reported the incident to the police, she said it only added to the frustration. In several September 30 TikTok comments responding to concerned viewers, she noted that the police had not yet filed charges against the man. “It seemed to be a joke to them,” she wrote in one, and in another, “police department trying to sweep it under the rug.”
In nearly all states, the Second Amendment protects a homeowner’s right to possess or carry a gun on their own property without a permit, and Georgia is among the most gun-friendly states in the country.
But it depends on how the person holds the gun, where it’s aimed, and the person’s behavior. Holding a gun behind your back isn’t a crime by itself, but it doesn’t give anyone a pass to intimidate.
In the meantime, BriShaye said in the comments there’s no recourse with the company, as she believes he is the owner. She hopes authorities will file charges.
@bri.shayeee POV: You’re just trying to deliver a package and end up being followed, blocked in, and confronted by an angry BUSINESS OWNER with a gun😳 I never expected my day to turn into this. #Georgia #MadisonGa #DeliveryDriver #Delivery #Rude ♬ original sound – bri.shaye
