More than a month after a police standoff in North Carolina, a TikTok video of an Amazon driver who made their way through the throng of police vehicles has gone viral.
“Amazon hard at work,” said a voice in the background of the video, which appears to show a person in an Amazon vest walking past police SUVs to drop off a single, small package. “In the midst of a standoff, he’s going to deliver his package.”
“Go Amazon!” the voice added as others laugh in the background. As of Tuesday, it had more than 7 million views. It was posted March 18.
After handing the package to police officers, the person can be seen taking a photo and walking away from the scene.
According to the Daily Mail, the video footage depicted the scene of a 20-hour standoff at an apartment complex in Cary, N.C., that law enforcement from Raleigh, N.C. and other nearby municipalities assisted with. WRAL reported that officers first arrived at the scene at 10:45 p.m. Feb. 21.
Eventually, a man that negotiators were working with took his own life. Police were able to get the man’s 11-year-old son to safety. However, the boy did have minor gunshot wounds. A woman shot in the standoff was also helped out of a nearby apartment.
“I have no words to express the problem that we face with mental illness in this country,” said Cary Police Chief Terry Sult regarding the incident.
CBS News noted that, in the comments section of the TikTok video, people mentioned the strict expectations for Amazon delivery drivers.
“Someone claiming to be an Amazon delivery driver wrote in the comments that the person in the video didn’t have a choice but to get the package through, saying, ‘it was either deliver the package or get fired,’” according to the outlet.
“They monitor everything – from whether we're wearing our seat belts to acceleration, braking, cornering, reversing, and even things like touching our screens while in motion through an app called Mentor,” an anonymous Amazon delivery driver told Insider in 2021. That year, Amazon was ordered to pay more than $61.7 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to pay drivers fairly.
Last December, Attorney General Karl A. Racine of the District of Columbia announced a new lawsuit against the company that alleges it steals tips.
“Workers in the District of Columbia and throughout our country are too often taken advantage of and not paid their hard-earned wages,” he said.
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