Meet the Volvo-Driving Racist Mailman Harasser

[Ian David]

Meet the Volvo-Driving Racist Mailman Harasser



That was quick. Just hours after covertly-filmed video of a racist woman berating a mailman went viral, she's been identified as Erika Winchester, speech coach and citizen police academy graduate. But did this incident really get the mail carrier fired?

When the video was splashed all over blogs and message boards like 4chan and Reddit last night, the Internet hive mind quickly tracked the woman down. She was identified as 60-year-old Erika Winchester of Hingham, Mass., and her number and address were posted on numerous sites. (Real estate records confirm Winchester lives at the house featured in the video.) Winchester runs a speech coaching business called The Speech Company, which bills itself as "the nationally leading human-to-human communication organization." She's also a sometimes-actress, judging from this old listing on Exploretalent.com.

Winchester appears to be notorious in the affluent town of Hingham as sort of a nut. When the local gossip blog Around Hingham posted the video a couple weeks ago, anonymous commenters shared their encounters: "I went into that lunatic house to give a painting estimate," said one. "I told her then and I will say it again she needs to get her meds checked. Out of her mind whack job."

And Winchester has a history of belligerent behavior. Documents posted by The Smoking Gun show police were called to an event at the Hingham armory in 2007 to deal with Winchester, who was threatening "that anyone who wrongs her would ‘get it with a machine gun.' When a cop tried to put her in a cruiser, she threatened to chop off his balls. And in 2005 she was arrested for drunk driving when she crashed her Volvo (of course) through a street sign.

More:
http://gawker.com/5688566/meet-the-volvo+driving-racist-mailman-harasser

See prior thread:

Racist abuses postal worker, and get HIM fired! (offensive language warning)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x524744