Black man says he hasn’t went back into a bank, after a bank manager called police over alleged fake check
The manager’s call was later released, and he’s heard saying, “We have someone trying to cash a fake check with us. Yes, it’s a fake personal check.”
The dispatcher asked, “What does he look like?”
“Um … He’s African-American,” he said.
The credit union says a third-party verification party is unable to authenticate a check the employee should have first reached out to the account holder for verification.
Once the manager reached the account holder, the check was verified, and Brewer should have been let go. However, bodycam video shows the officers weren’t aware of this until about 10 minutes after detaining Brewer. Before becoming aware, Brewer attempted to state his case saying, “How can it be fraud, when she wrote it, signed it and she’s a member of this bank?”
Brewer says he was embarrassed by the incident and believes the whole ordeal was racially motivated.
“It was just, ‘Oh, you know, Black guy, locs in his hair, tattoos, came on a Harley, you know, let’s assume the worst,’” Brewer said. “Why embarrass somebody like that? Why, you know, make them feel less than a man.”
Matthew Whitaker, the owner of Diamond Strategies LLC, says the incident was “racially profiled” and said that the manager should have called the customer immediately. He further asked, “Why escalate that at that point?”
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