A National Grid worker in a Trump hat confronted a Belmont woman because of her bumper stickers
"He said he disagreed with the things on the back of my car, and he thought that we were what was wrong with the country."
National Grid says it is taking action after one of the company’s employees was caught on video Monday in Belmont slamming on his truck’s horn and confronting a woman about the bumper stickers on her SUV.
Jessie Bennett captured the scene outside her home on a doorbell camera and later recorded as the worker, who has not been identified, antagonized her about the stickers on her Subaru parked in front of her house, Boston 25 News reports.
The stickers support everything from Elizabeth Warren and LGBTQ family equality to national parks, according to the news station.
A video shows the employee, driving a company van, stopping when he noticed Bennett’s vehicle, backing up behind it, and blasting his horn until Bennett exited her home.
The man, who was wearing a Trump 2020 hat, also blared a talk radio station, the video shows.
“He said he disagreed with the things on the back of my car, and he thought that we were what was wrong with the country, that kind of thing,” Bennett told Boston 25 News.
A Belmont woman says a National Grid worker stopped at her house and started antagonizing her because of the bumper stickers displayed on the back of her parked car. https://t.co/f8oCv9KlBK pic.twitter.com/nUtF0Dmgnz
— Boston 25 News (@boston25) October 2, 2019
In one of the videos, Bennett asks the man for his name and why he was doing what he was doing.
“I don’t have any idea what you are talking about,” the worker says.
“Are you like drunk or something?” Bennett asks him.
“No, no. I just hate all of your (expletive) on your car,” he says.
In a statement to Boston.com Wednesday, National Grid spokeswoman Christine Milligan said the company is taking the incident “very seriously.”
“We have reviewed the video along with the customer complaint and are taking appropriate action,” she said.
Bennett said she was concerned about the safety of other people and so she reported what happened to local police, according to Boston 25 News.
“It was coming from such a place of anger, so it was really intimidating,” she said.
Bennett also told the news station Belmont Police are looking into the incident.
