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Eugene

(62,756 posts)
Wed Dec 19, 2018, 09:45 AM Dec 2018

Bank employee calls police on black man trying to cash a check from his new job

Source: New York Daily News

Bank employee calls police on black man trying to cash a check from his new job

By BRIAN NIEMIETZ
DEC 18, 2018 | 5:50 PM

An employee at an Ohio bank called the police on a black man who’d just started a new job and was trying to cash his check.

Paul McCowns, 30, told NBC affiliate Cleveland News 19 that bank tellers at Huntington Bank in Brooklyn refused to honor the $1,082 check he’d just received from his new gig with an electric company, even after he provided two forms of I.D. and a fingerprint.

“It was highly embarrassing,” according to McCowns, who said tellers tried phoning his employer to verify the check was legit, but his boss didn’t pick up the call. McCowns’ check was for 64 hours he’d worked at the job he started three weeks earlier.

Accepting that the tellers weren’t going to help him, McCowns decided to leave, not knowing a bank employee had called 911.

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Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-news-black-man-check-bank-cleveland-20181218-story.html

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Related: #BankingWhileBlack: Bank Calls Cops on Man Because His Paycheck Was Too High (The Root)

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Source: Washington Post

A black man tried to cash his paycheck. The bank called the cops.

By Michael Brice-Saddler December 18 at 3:58 PM

Three weeks into his new job, Paul McCowns was ready to cash his first paycheck.

There were no issues when he first entered a Huntington Bank branch in Brooklyn, Ohio, on Dec. 1. The bank asked for two forms of ID, which McCowns provided, he told Cleveland 19 News. An employee then asked for a fingerprint, which is standard procedure for non-Huntington customers attempting to cash checks, according to the bank.

But soon, bank employees began to question the legitimacy of his check, which was worth just over $1,000, said McCowns, who is African American. They called his employer, an electric company, numerous times to confirm, but his employer did not answer. The bank turned him away, he said.

Moments later, he was handcuffed and put into the back of a police cruiser.

“I get in my truck, and the squad car [pulls] in front of me, and he says, ‘Get out the car,’ ” McCowns, 30, told Cleveland 19 News. An employee had called Brooklyn police, who detained McCowns until they verified with his employer that the check was real.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/18/black-man-tried-cash-his-paycheck-bank-called-cops/
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Bank employee calls police on black man trying to cash a check from his new job (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2018 OP
'Merika Shell_Seas Dec 2018 #1
There needs to be some sort of recourse against this Fullduplexxx Dec 2018 #2
Too much of this bullshit going on. Those calling 911 when there are no issues should be forced to RKP5637 Dec 2018 #3
Charge them with mis-use of the 911 system Fullduplexxx Dec 2018 #4
Exactly!!! I'm so damn fed up with this bullshit by racists!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2018 #5
+1000 Thank You. Kind of Blue Dec 2018 #9
Well youre welcome but im fkg appaled by this Fullduplexxx Dec 2018 #10
Well, I'm glad to hear that because I'm beyond Kind of Blue Dec 2018 #11
Everybody in this farce can play the "we were just doing our job" card The Polack MSgt Dec 2018 #6
++ brer cat Dec 2018 #8
We have a color blind society Guppy Dec 2018 #7
Okay... spicysista Dec 2018 #12

Fullduplexxx

(8,356 posts)
2. There needs to be some sort of recourse against this
Wed Dec 19, 2018, 09:48 AM
Dec 2018

Like flood the bank with calls asking if all huntington banks are racists or just that one or bill them the cost of sending someone out

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
3. Too much of this bullshit going on. Those calling 911 when there are no issues should be forced to
Wed Dec 19, 2018, 09:48 AM
Dec 2018

pay for the time of the police and services. ... it should be considered a fake 911 call for assistance.

Kind of Blue

(8,709 posts)
11. Well, I'm glad to hear that because I'm beyond
Wed Dec 19, 2018, 01:17 PM
Dec 2018

disgusted of living it. Racism is the great equalizer of white people on all socio-economic levels and those who call 911 know it could very well be a death sentence. So hitting them in the pocket is one thing I think avowed racists will understand.

The Polack MSgt

(13,451 posts)
6. Everybody in this farce can play the "we were just doing our job" card
Wed Dec 19, 2018, 09:56 AM
Dec 2018

And act (among themselves) as if they did nothing wrong, but this reminds me of another story:
https://mic.com/articles/129805/this-black-professor-wrote-about-the-harrowing-reality-of-fitting-a-police-description#.9iVUyqwJ8

The bottom line is - If you're black, you need a white person to vouch for you because the default value assigned to you is "Suspicious, possibly Criminal".

In 2018, if you're black how you're dressed doesn't matter. What your ID says doesn't matter. Where you live doesn't matter.

If you're black you are suspect until the proper white folk approval ritual is performed

brer cat

(26,479 posts)
8. ++
Wed Dec 19, 2018, 10:03 AM
Dec 2018
If you're black you are suspect until the proper white folk approval ritual is performed


Demeaning, disrespectful and definitely racist.

spicysista

(1,731 posts)
12. Okay...
Wed Dec 19, 2018, 10:18 PM
Dec 2018

So you go to cash your check at the bank. You make sure to provide all requested forms of identification with no issues. You're probably in a great mood anyways because it's payday! Instead of getting your hard earned coin, they call your employers...


Okay....Since they can not make contact with your employers, they refuse to honour the check. You leave, without a fuss or scene, and they then call the police...... for YOU?!?


What. The. Hell.

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