Ryan Coogler

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler has condemned the wrongful bank robbery arrest he experienced earlier this year.

A Bank of America spokesperson added: "We deeply regret that this incident occurred. However, Bank of America worked with me and addressed it to my satisfaction and we have moved on." After verifying Coogler's identity and his Bank of America account, the officers released him and his colleagues.

A Bank of America teller calls police in Atlanta after becoming nervous when the director of the hit Marvel film Black Panther tried to make a large ...

“We deeply regret that this incident occurred. Another body camera video showed the teller explaining that Coogler gave her the withdrawal slip and after he had inserted his debit card and asked to make a withdrawal, he pointed at the note instead of answering her questions. Police determined the whole thing was a mistake by the teller and Coogler "was never in the wrong", the report said. A description of Coogler given by the driver matched the description of the man reported to have been trying to rob the bank, according to the report. Coogler walked into a Bank of America branch on January 7 and passed the teller a withdrawal slip with a note written on the back asking her to "be discreet when handing him the cash", according to a police report. He was trying to withdraw more than $US10,000, and the teller “received an alert notification" from his account and quickly alerted her manager that Coogler was trying to rob the bank, the report said.

The director of "Fruitvale Station" and "Black Panther" was running a mundane errand in Atlanta—and ended up in handcuffs.

Over the past couple of days, from the momentary comfort and tenuous security of my home in Oakland, I’ve watched the Coogler video. But being “weird” and from California is not a crime, even in the state of Georgia. An errand to the bank shouldn’t trigger trauma or the anxiety that comes from being labeled, misjudged, and placed in handcuffs. Thankfully, the consequences of the incident, chalked up as “a mistake” by a bank teller, weren’t dire. Coogler’s Fruitvale Station still haunts us, a reminder that violence against Black bodies is an ever-present threat during interactions with the police. It didn’t matter that he went to both St. Mary’s and USC. All of that history and hard work became irrelevant when Coogler walked into that bank. He is handcuffed and placed in the back of an officer’s vehicle. Democratic state representative Park Cannon was arrested last year for knocking on the door of a fellow lawmaker’s home. A Black man walks into a Bank of America branch in Atlanta. He is wearing sunglasses and a sweatshirt, a work badge with his picture hanging in plain view on his right hip, and an N95 mask over his mouth and nose. Whereas white people can literally climb the walls of a federal building and create chaos with relatively little consequence for nearly everyone involved, Black people are only freely “allowed” and “permitted” into a seemingly endless array of spaces only when they’re deemed useful. But she did notice that it was a California ID, and described Coogler as “acting weird.” I get it. Otherwise, Black people are all-too-frequently considered a threat for wanting and having something of our own, or simply some space to ourselves.

Film director Ryan Coogler was briefly handcuffed and detained by police in Atlanta in January after being mistaken for a bank robber.

I’d like to be discreet.” Police told Coogler that they were responding to a call of a bank robbery and explained to him that it was within their appropriate precautions to detain him and the two others he was with and ask questions and clarify later given the nature of the alleged crime, according to the AP. Coogler, a 35-year-old Black man, had entered a Bank of America branch in the city’s upscale neighborhood of Buckhead on Jan. 7 and had passed the bank teller a withdrawal slip with a note on the back asking her to be “discreet, when handing him the cash,” according to a police report, the Associated Press said.

The bank teller misinterpreted the situation and told her boss she suspected a robbery as the transaction was over $10000 and triggered an automatic ...

Once outside he then explains that he was doing nothing wrong. Black Panther director Ryan Coogler was detained after being mistaken for a bank robber while trying to withdraw money from his own account, US police video footage shows. The bank teller misinterpreted the situation and told her boss she suspected a robbery as the transaction was over $10,000 and triggered an automatic notification, Variety reports.

Yesterday it was reported that Black Panther director Ryan Coogler was detained by police after he was mistakenly accused of trying to rob a Bank of America ...

Coogler said in a statement to Variety, "This situation should never have happened. According to a report, in an effort to be discreet about his withdrawal (which, can you blame him? The two of them then contacted authorities. She asked to see my ID. I gave it to her. I said, 'Hey is that going to be okay with you?' She said, 'Yeah.' I put my own card in. Y'all are the ones with guns and vests.