He went to the bank to deposit checks from a racial discrimination settlement with his former employer. The bank called the police. Now he's suing it for racial discrimination, too.
"Something else was afoot here," the man's attorney, Deborah Gordon, told CNN affiliate WXYZ."And in my opinion there's only one thing: banking while black"Sauntore Thomas, a 44-year-old African-American man, went to a TCF Bank branch Tuesday to open a savings account and deposit checks from the settlement in a recent racial discrimination case against his former employer, his complaint says. He already had a checking account at the bank.
And they said 'Hey sir can we talk to you?' And I was shocked, I was like 'who, me?'" Thomas told WXYZ.Four police officers arrived at the bank and questioned Thomas, and his attorney over the phone, about the checks.TCF Bank filed a police report for check fraud against Thomas, the complaint said. He left that bank and went to another, where he successfully deposited his checks and where they cleared the next morning, the complaint said.
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