MIAMI – Police officers arrested a U.S. Postal Service employee who was accused of losing her patience while a man used a phone to record her in Miami.
The video shows Shintell Latoya Ford making contact with Miguel Bravo’s phone on Dec. 9, at the USPS Jose Marti station, at 425 NW 27 Ave., in Little Havana.
“The woman hit me,” Bravo said.
Ford, 39, was forced to spend Saturday night in jail.
Bravo said he requested to speak to a manager after he said he saw Ford being rude to a woman who didn’t speak English.
“Your treatment of these people is discriminatory,” Bravo told Ford.
While Bravo was recording Ford, she snatched his phone away from him, and caused a red bruise on his left hand in the process, according to the arrest report.
Ford handed the phone to another USPS employee who returned it to Bravo, according to the police arrest report.
“She ran into the back where I chased them and they were trying to break my phone because of the video that’s in it,” Bravo said.
Miami-Dade County correctional officers released Ford, who is facing a charge of robbery by sudden snatching, on a $5,000 bond on Saturday. USPS did not comment on the case.
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Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editors Joyce Grace Ortega and Frine Gomez contributed to this report.