« Black Panther » writer and director Ryan Coogler says an incident when he was wrongfully accused of bank robbery « should have never happened. »
Coogler, 35, …
« Black Panther » writer and director Ryan Coogler says an incident when he was wrongfully accused of bank robbery « should have never happened. » Coogler,35, left an Atlanta Bank of America in handcuffs after a bank teller misconstrued an alert about the director’s withdrawal request. TMZ first reported the incident Wednesday. Coogler handed the teller a written request to discreetly take out more than $10,000 from his account, according to a police report obtained by USA TODAY. The withdrawal caused an alert notification from his account. The teller, who was described as a Black woman in the police report, then alerted her manager Coogler was attempting to rob the branch and police responded to the scene. Police arrived and detained two people who were waiting for Coogler in the car in the bank’s parking lot and put them in the back of a police car.
