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| Bank calls cops on black man trying to cash check from discrimination lawsuit |
| 2020-01-24 |
| [NYPost] A Detroit man is suing a Michigan bank for refusing to cash a settlement check awarded to him in a racial discrimination lawsuit, according to a report. Sauntore Thomas, 44, claims TCF Bank employees refused to cash or deposit his settlement check on Tuesday at a branch in Livonia, leading cops to respond and a fraud investigation to be launched, the Detroit Free Press reports. "I didn't deserve treatment like that when I knew that the check was not fraudulent," Thomas told the newspaper. "I’m a United States veteran. I have an honorable discharge from the Air Force. They discriminated against me because I'm black. None of this would have happened if I were white." Thomas, who had an account at the bank for nearly two years, sued TCF Bank on Wednesday, alleging racial discrimination by the bank for calling police, prompting four cops to respond to the branch, the newspaper reports. The vet even called his employment law attorney while at the bank for help explaining to bank employees that the check was authentic. "I got on the phone with the bank," attorney Deborah Gordon told the newspaper. "I sent them my federal court complaint, to see that it matched. I did everything." |
| Posted by:Woodrow |
| #7 Something smells here - don't know what, but my Fake Outrage Detector is twitching. Random thought: Maybe he triggered some machine learning fraud detection algorithm. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-01-24 19:41 |
| #6 Computer system rejected the check. He will lose the money to attoqneys fees this time. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2020-01-24 15:27 |
| #5 I stopped wondering about the existence of racism long ago about things like this. Unfortunately for all the Blacks that do things the right way the bad apples have tainted the whole barrel. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-01-24 13:17 |
| #4 Why would you go back to the bank you had to sue? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-01-24 10:56 |
| #3 I had an account at Mellon Bank for 22 years. When they froze the account and couldn't explain why they treated me like I had no relationship with them at all. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 10:29 |
| #2 "Thomas, who had an account at the bank for nearly two years" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-01-24 09:59 |
| #1 Already had an account at the bank? No? Whuttasuprise. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 09:38 |