Police Bodycam Footage Shows "Black Panther" Director Ryan Coogler Being Mistakenly Detained

[Jilly_in_VA]

Police Bodycam Footage Shows "Black Panther" Director Ryan Coogler Being Mistakenly Detained As A Bank Robber

The Atlanta Police Department released bodycam footage Wednesday that showed them detaining Ryan Coogler, the director of Black Panther, after they mistook him for a bank robber in January.

Police showed up to a branch of Bank of America after Coogler requested to withdraw $12,000 from his bank account on Jan. 7, according to an incident report also released Wednesday.

The 35-year-old director showed his California ID, his bank card, and gave his PIN number, but the bank teller became suspicious when Coogler wrote on the back of the deposit slip to be discreet with the money.

"My stomach started turning," the bank teller, who was pregnant, told police in the bodycam footage. “I have to protect myself. I have to protect my child," she added.

Coogler was wearing sunglasses, a hat, and a COVID-19 face mask. Both Coogler and the bank teller are Black.

The bank teller told police on the video that Coogler's account showed an alert indicating it was a "high-risk transaction." That's when she told her manager that she was uncomfortable. She called 911.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paigeskinner/ryan-coogler-detained-bodycam

[ItsjustMe]

1. .

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017719387

[Casady1]

2. There is no racial profiling in America

ask any conservative.

[Zeitghost]

6. There most certainly is

But I'm not sure the African American bank teller who was concerned was part of it.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Calling the cops endangered everyone in that building, including herself.

[madville]

4. Odd behavior on his part

And the parties are all Black. Passing a teller a handwritten note is not a good idea.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. odder still is why the teller after being handed an ID, a bank card and given a pin, she calls 911

Didn't get the hint that this was the guy's account. Not to mention, you have to wonder if she asked him to take down his mask and compare it to the ID pic.

Sounds like everyone was being cautious and it snowballed into an ugly situation.

[rsdsharp]

7. To me, the most infuriating thing was that after he was wrongly accused,

had guns drawn on him, handcuffed and placed into a police car, the cops finally figured it out. And THEN, decided they were going to copsplain, while he, and the other members of his team, were still in handcuffs. TAKE THE DAMN CUFFS OFF ONCE YOU REALIZE THIS WAS A CLUSTER FUCK.

[PoliticAverse]

8. He wrote a note to the teller on the back of his deposit slip?

He may be a director, but apparently he hasn't seen a lot of Hollywood movies with bank robberies.