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I don't get it, how does depositing a check become a police matter?
PS: It says cash first and deposit further down, I'm assuming deposit must be the correct part.
Edit: PPS. I know there is racism and this happens in USA, but the amount of amateur hour from the Banks procedure, to the people working there and the police responding to a non issue is mind numbing for a person coming from Denmark, where banks are run professionally, and the police almost is too.
Racist bank employees made it a police matter when they assumed he was passing a fraudulent check and called to have the guy arrested for being a negro in possession of money.
But how do they "assume" this? And why does the police accept it without any evidence?
I mean the amateurish incompetence is staggering.
Isn't it normal procedure to deposit the check until it's cleared?
First time hearing about America?
Wait until they hear about folks that get caught driving while black.
Or try voting. Or try electing representation. Or try owning firearms like the white folks.
Basically anything while trying to be black in America.
Working cotton should be ok
Or Basketball player
Singing too, but only certain genres
Fucking hell, this. I used to live in a shit hole conservative state in a shit hole conservative town with a university. My buddy from New Jersey comes to visit. He's a 5'5 Jamaican man. We take him out one night and two people, each on a separate occasion, asked him if he played football for the university.
What the fuck.
No, I know this happens, I just don't get how the amateur hour process is allowed to continue?
I just don't get how the amateur hour process is allowed to continue?
It’s the same generation in both images. The first image is Elizabeth Eckford, one of the first black students to enroll in Little Rock high school following desegregation in 1957. Notice that she’s surrounded by a crowd of angry white students. The second image is Donald Trump’s primary voting base.
How many generations ago was brutal, undiluted systemic racism accepted? ‘Bout 2.5. it takes a while to fix, given that segregationists instilled such strong feelings into their progeny. It’s easier to break something than to fix it, most especially when someone is actively working to obstruct the repair. It takes 2 seconds to pop a tire and 20 minutes to change.
it takes a while to fix
This is reality I know, but it's unacceptable, this kind of racism needs to be punished harder, to make racists understand their behavior is unacceptable.
Sure but the people who would do the punishing are most likely also racist so it won’t happen
It sounds like you're learning why segregation had to be ended at gunpoint. Literally.
Racists are trash, and trash doesn't spontaneously turn to gold.
If a bank employee KNOWS someone is trying to deposit a fraudulent check, they should call the police to arrest that person instead of letting them leave and try again.
But they had no evidence, merely the racist assumption that a black man could not have come by that much money legally.
This is basically correct. If the check is from that particular bank they can easily call the person who wrote it and ask "did you write this check?". But no one would do that for a deposit. If you work at a bank you can recognize your own checks just by looking at them.
If the check is for a different bank and looks really fake, a bank might not deposit it and ask some questions about it ("who gave it to you?"). This is to protect depositors from fake check scams ("deposit this check and give me back 10%"). If the person really wanted to deposit it, the bank employees might recommend cashing it at the bank listed on the check. They will know if it's real.
I actually saw a similar situation to the one here. A black non-customer had a large denomination check that looked different from normal checks. After some questions, he said he got it from a settlement. It turned out that the check was fine, the check design was just not used often. Total time was like 20 minutes to verify the check, open the account, and deposit it. He said he would bring his next settlement check next time.
See? Easy to verify it and not be racist.
Simple they were racist fucks
Welcome to the origin of the “it’s illegal to [x] while black” meme. It’s illegal to drive while black. It’s illegal to have money while black. It’s illegal to eat chips while black. It’s illegal to sleep in your own bed while black. Etc, etc, etc… All of these are examples of times black people have been profiled and discriminated against for no reason other than the color of their skin.
I mean, the cops killed George Floyd for using a counterfeit $20 bill at a convenience store in Minneapolis.
Detroit (where this happened) is just one state over.
Next thing you know, the judge thinks this guy is full of bullshit for being black, then gets sued for racism, thus continuing the cycle
When he cashes the cheque for this incident he gets nabbed again and more lawsuits. His lawyer must love him.
Yeah imagine the call with his lawyer. "Hi, it's me again. You're not gonna fucking believe this."
More like infinite racism "glitch"
Infinite money sounds great, but if you activate this glitch the Law faction becomes hostile toward you and their aggro range is increased.
There is a similar cheat that you can activate with a cheat code, but your parents need to input the code on the title screen before starting your game. You'll start in "New Game +" with huge bonuses to cash and influence. The Law faction becomes friendly toward you, and the MegaRich are neutral instead of hostile, and they'll even forgive minor grievances sometimes.
I never learned the code so I can't help much more than that. Sorry 😔
I started that way, it's nice. You can still play on hard mode with the poverty debuff, but if you pick the right starting region it makes for a good game. Playing on dark mode with poverty debuff is just constant grinding with the level progression all fucked up, it's kind of immersion breaking. You can get participation trophies that way though.
If you start with the cheat code you get a permanent culture debuff though.
True but the culture debuff makes you more likely to acquire the "unempathetic" trait which if your goal is a financial victory is a must.
Everyone gone woke nowadays.
Except the employer
And the police
Everyone except those in power gone woke somehow
This is an old meme. Does anyone know how that second lawsuit turned out?
I looked through some articles, then got distracted by the fact that Snopes fact checked Cracker Barrel racially segregating customers until 2004 and it being TRUE.
The best part? There was a falsity in the claim they were checking, that Cracker Barrel settled the lawsuit. No, they fought it and lost, lmao.
I couldn't find anything. Sauntore Thomas deposited the check elsewhere and planned to seek damages from TCF bank, but I couldn't find anything about how that developed.
Wait, they still use cheques in America?!
They do! It's like they never heard of EFTs. They also pay many of their bills manually, or even worse, some still mail a cheque in response to a bill they receive via snail mail.
As a CSR at a fuel company who regularly deals with many types of people:
It's not "Americans haven't heard of ach/eft", it's old Americans who refuse to use it.
I have multiple overly paranoid nutters who insist they must hand their check to my driver or some evil spirit will take their money from them in the night (these are not pleasant people in general, either, so I think it's that they like forcing an interaction with their nasty asses on my driver's)
No, never. They use checks.
I know right? This would have been an electronic bank transfer here int he UK and I'm sure across Europe.
I can't remember the last time I used a cheque. Maybe 10 or even 15 years ago? Even that was a random one off. I don't even have a cheque book and would have to ask the bank especially if I wanted one.
For large sums of money, it's pretty common to use cashier's checks, which is probably the kind of check that they're talking about here.
I would keep doing this over and over. If the bank acted properly, you can just have them print a new check, then try elsewhere.
I hope he drives by that bank every single day just to smile pleasantly and wave.
What and get the cops called on him again?
Infinite money glitch
Risk of getting shot increases with each iteration