FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) \u2014 The Fresno Police Department is investigating an altercation between a USPS letter carrier and an elderly man Thursday afternoon that was caught on camera.<\/p>\n
The incident happened around 5:08 p.m. near Michigan and Wilson avenues.<\/p>\n
Video from a home’s Nest doorbell camera shows the letter carrier dropping off a couple of packages at the front door. <\/p>\n
An elderly man is then seen approaching with two dogs, one of which was off leash.<\/p>\n
The letter carrier tells the man the dog is loose and says, \u201cI\u2019m protecting myself,\u201d before pulling out a canister of pepper spray.<\/p>\n
The elderly man then leaves the dogs and runs toward the letter carrier while shouting profanity.<\/p>\n
USPS letter carrier attacked by elderly man with two dogs in Fresno. (Video: FOX26)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
He attempts to attack the worker, who sprays him.<\/p>\n
The man quickly backs away and walks off.<\/p>\n
The letter carrier called Fresno police, who arrived about seven minutes later.<\/p>\n
Police said the man refused medical attention and was cited for misdemeanor fighting in public.<\/p>\n
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According to police, the man confronted the postal worker because he believed the letter carrier sprayed his dog first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KMPH) \u2014 The Fresno Police Department is investigating an altercation between a USPS letter carrier and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-186751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}