Man behind racist Kamala Harris flyer attack learns fate
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Left: Russell Valleau (Farmington Hills Police Department). Right: Former Vice President Kamala Harris receives the chairman’s award at the 56th NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, February 22, 2025, in Pasadena, California (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP).

A Michigan man convicted of a racist outburst against a U.S. Postal Service employee after the worker placed Kamala Harris flyers in his mailbox was handed a 12-month sentence this week. This comes despite his attorney arguing that he is “not inherently racist” and deals with “mental health issues coupled with alcohol use.”

Russell Valleau, 62, from Farmington Hills, was sentenced on Tuesday in Michigan’s Eastern District following his February conviction for assaulting a postal worker, according to court documents.

His lawyer, James Amberg, had argued in Valleau’s sentencing memorandum that he deserved to be given a sentence of “time served” after being in custody since his arrest in September 2024.

“This equates out to approximately eight months of incarceration,” Amberg said. “This time has been spent mainly in county jail, a place built not to house individuals indefinitely, but instead to lock up the town drunk for a week or two. ”

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A jury found Valleau guilty of assaulting a federal employee and acquitted him of using a dangerous weapon after a three-day trial and two hours of deliberations, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The mail carrier that Valleau attacked was in her truck on Rockwell Street in Farmington Hills, located 25 miles northwest of Detroit, when Valleau approached her on his bicycle and started yelling profanities. He was upset about receiving the mailer from Harris, who was the vice president and Democratic presidential nominee at the time, saying he did not want that “Black b— in my mailbox.”

During his tirade, Valleau also muttered a range of vulgarities and additional racial slurs as he complained that he was “tired of getting” the mailers.

The carrier was unsure what the defendant meant by this, and told him to just leave the mail in the mailbox.

“Do your f—in’ job,” Valleau railed.

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