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Director Ryan Coogler shot the sequel to “Black Panther” in Atlanta. The filmmaker was arrested there after trying to withdraw money from a local branch of Bank of America. The cashier saw a warning on the account because the creator of “Black Panther” wanted to withdraw more than 10,000 dollars. The employee of the facility decided that it was an attempted theft – the police were called to the scene.
The director of “Black Panther” was mistaken for a thief
The filmmaker wrote in the form that he would like to withdraw $ 12,000, so he asks that the money be discreetly recalculated. According to the police report reached by the Variety portal, Coogler appeared in a tank with sunglasses and a mask on his face – which should come as no surprise to anyone during the coronavirus epidemic.
The cashier, alerted by the warning that appears in the system when someone tries to withdraw more than 10,000, concluded that this was an attempted theft. She informed her boss about it and they called the police together. Four officers arrived at the scene.
In front of the bank, two colleagues were waiting for the director of the famous “Black Panther” in the car with the engine running. When the police arrived, they too were arrested and put into a police car. They told the police who Ryan Coogler was and what he was wearing that day – it turned out that the description matched the man suspected of robbing a bank. The director was handcuffed. He and his colleagues were released shortly after police confirmed their identity and account details.
A spokesman for Bank of America told the press that the institution greatly regrets the incident. Coogler commented on the case for:
This incident should never happen. Nevertheless, Bank of America took appropriate steps to remedy this incident, and we came to an agreement.
Interestingly, a similar situation with Bank of America happened to popular musician Lenny Kravitz when he was recording the album “Lenny” in Miami in 2001. In a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone, the rocker described the incident as follows:
I was just running, and a Bank of America was robbed near my route. The perpetrator was a black guy in a t-shirt, and I was a black guy in a sports shirt. I was stopped in four or even five police cars, and the policemen aimed their guns at me. Basically it was racial profiling of the perpetrator. They didn’t let me out until the old lady who witnessed the theft at the bank came and looked at me and said it wasn’t me. I was very nervous because she was really old, she only looked and saw only brown skin and a T-shirt.
Based on this experience, Lenny Kravitz wrote the song “Bank Robber Man”.
Before Coogler directed “The Black Panther,” which turned out to be one of Marvel’s biggest box office successes, he worked on “Creed,” starring Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallon. This is a loud spin off of the series about the iconic boxer Rocky, who this time trains the son of his former rival Apollo Creed. Ryan Coogler’s debut film, Fruitvale Station, told the true story of a man killed by a police officer.
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