September 9, 2021, 2:25 pm
A doorbell camera recently led to the downfall of a verbally abusive Amazon Manager.
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Brad Boynton, Program Manager for Key Initiatives in Amazon Transportation Services, screamed and swore at fellow Amazon employee Nikolas Mayrant—and the video went viral.
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Mayrant, a delivery driver, had brought an Amazon package to Boynton’s home in Cornelius, North Carolina. In the video, Boynton is lodging a complaint with a third Amazon employee, over the phone, about Mayrant’s conduct during the delivery.
The specifics of his complaint against Mayrant are not clear from the video. (Allegedly, he did not approve of the way Mayrant had parked his truck.)
In a loud, agitated tone, Boynton can be heard telling Mayrant, “I’ve told you seven times, walk the f—k away!”
As Mayrant does so, he cuts a corner towards the sidewalk, stepping on Boynton’s lawn. Boynton becomes further agitated, taking a few steps out of his front door as though he intends to follow Mayrant, calling, “Dude! On the grass, dude, seriously? Do you not know ANY of the f—king policies!”
Boynton can then be heard quickly muttering, twice in a row, something that sounds like the n-word. Mayrant claims he was racially abused, and the video has prompted outrage on social media.
Boynton, who has removed his personal online profiles due to the backlash against him and his perceived racism, maintains that he was saying, “Nader, Nader,” because the Amazon representative on the phone was someone named Nader.
The video went viral after Mayrant’s sister, Heather Rose, posted it to her Instagram account. She contends that Mayrant asked Boynton why Boynton was taking photographs of him, and Boynton responded with obscenities and racial slurs rather than providing a reason.
Rose wrote, “I know racism is still alive . . . but it’s a little more heartbreaking & shocking to see when it’s my blood brother [being treated in a racist way].”
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Rose claims that Mayrant is one of the quietest people she knows, who keeps to himself and doesn’t bother others. “My brother was FIRED from his job,” she posted, for asking why Boynton was photographing him, and for “walking on his grass after he called him [the n-word].”
For his part, Mayrant claims that Boynton “falsely accused him of breaking several Amazon policies,” including parking his delivery truck across Boynton’s lawn. No delivery truck is visible in the video, on Boynton’s lawn or otherwise. Mayrant says he just “parked awkwardly on a narrow street.”
Mayrant also alleges that, as he was trying to deliver the package, Boynton slammed the door in his face. On his since-deleted GoFundMe, Mayrant refers to his firing as “nepotism and racism at its finest.”
When attorney and Civil Rights advocate Ben Crump tweeted the video he’d seen on Rose’s Instagram account, it garnered many more views.
This is unacceptable! A Black Amazon driver was FIRED from his job after a neighborhood resident called him racial slurs & harassed him while taking photos of him. Why was this young man terminated when he was the victim of this shameful harassment?!
: msheatherrose on IG pic.twitter.com/h5Q5XTycgp
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) September 8, 2021
Users demanded an explanation from Amazon—many suggested a boycott would be appropriate.
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Others expressed moral outrage, and exhaustion in dealing with racism and the gaslighting it often comes with.
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Many called for Mayrant to be given his job back, and for Boynton to be fired.
Amazon responded through a representative that they were “deeply concerned” by the video. After “opening an investigation into the incident,” and speaking with both Mayrant and Boynton, they fired Boynton as well.
“We do not condone bullying or harassing behavior of any type, and as a result of our investigation, we’ve terminated the individual shown bullying our delivery partner.”
It remains unclear at this time whether Mayrant has actually been given his job back.
*First Published: September 9, 2021, 2:25 pm
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