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Apparently this was in Detroit in 2020. A similar thing happened a few years earlier in West Seattle. Black guy went into a Wa. Mutual to deposit a check and the bank people thought it “didn’t look right” so they called the cops and charged him with check fraud. During the week or so he spent in jail, he lost his job, got evicted from his apartment, and gf broke up with him. He sued the bank and it took a couple years but he won.
Wow, the gf is a massive bitch for leaving him during this absolute shit show
Evaluating a person based on a single fact about them is the kind of keen, thorough, analytical thinking that gives me faith in democracy!
He was in jail for a week, go back to reddit if your going to be this snide.
Wow. We know absolutely nothing about their relationship, like at all, and I’m the snide one.
Maybe their relationship wasn’t on a firm foundation if that broke them up.
If you found out the person you were dating was a criminal (according to the authorities), would you stick around?
yes, unless I was already looking for an excuse to ditch em
Yes
depends on what it was for lol.
way to out yourself as an unsophisticated, sheltered suburbanite.
child molester or abuser = no way
any rich people crime, like embezzling = no way
drug crimes other than crack, heroin, meth? who cares…
anything else = whatever.
rather date a murderer than a yuppie.
“stealing” from banks is pretty based so yeah
Chat, is this shitpost real?
Apparently it is: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51234141
The bank clerk herself was a black woman, and the man is an Air Force veteran… The onion couldn’t make this shit up
From the article:
But when he tried to open a savings account for the money at the Livonia branch, staff said they would need to verify the cheques. The assistant bank manager - herself a black woman - went to a backroom, before returning and telling Mr Thomas their team member who verifies cheques was not there. She allegedly asked him how he got the money.
Ten minutes later - after Mr Thomas said he would wait in the lobby for the staff member to return - four police officers arrived.
I’m taking bets the asst. bank manager was told she had to ask by someone else behind the scenes. Then that someone called the cops.
WTH is a beat cop going to do though? How would they know if the check is legit or not? They should have deposited it and waited to see if the funds came in.
WTH is a beat cop going to do though?
Enforce hierarchy
A small tidbit :
Police began an investigation into Mr Thomas for fraud during the incident, but have since closed the case.
So non only the police didn’t need to be involved but they also tried to find fraud charges instead of helping the victim of racism…
Small chance, but it might have been a case of due diligence. The police might have done a by the numbers investigation just to ensure he had a solid verdict that there was no fraud.
Sauntore Thomas when the bank called the cops:
Thats amazing. Hope this guy becomes a millionaire doing this. :)
ThErE iS nO rAcIsM iN aMeRiCa
nOonE sAyS ThAt
America without the racism would be like ice cream with no vanilla flavoring. Not even the racists would be trying to tell you its not there.
Nah they think it’s in the past and black people are holding themselves back at this point.
Seriously.
One of the privileges if being a white guy is that other white guys wont even try hiding their racism from you if all you do is keep your mouth shut. Then you can let them run it all out before letting it slip that you aren’t one of their friends.
Yeah, it’s a real privilege to be subjected to a bigoted rant while waiting for an elevator because they assume you’ll be on their side in the coming race war.
Let me introduce you to the majority of my conservative coworkers.
I thought the conservative stance was that there’s no systemic racism. Your co-workers actually think all racism is solved, in the US of all places?? Sheesh
So much so that I have one white coworker who openly uses the n-word because it’s “not racist anymore”.
Racism is everywhere not just in America, it is just hotter issue on USA, because maybe leaders does fight it and it upsets racists. In other countries (especially more homogenous) it is often accepted by everyone as normal.
tell yourself whatever you need to so feel good about yourself…
racism is wrong and we all should strive to fight it
We absolutely should, but don’t tell me that Europeans or Asians aren’t racist.
Those messages I see from tankies while China and Russia are very racist. Russia even one of the biggest Nazi concentrations. Even right now putin is especially recruiting non ethnic Russians from Asia regions to send to Ukraine and can afford losing so many people because ethnic Russians didn’t care about them in face they hate them.
but don’t tell me that Europeans or Asians aren’t racist.
I never, at any point, insinuated racism was uniquely American… if anything, it sounds like you are bringing others in to dilute the message
Those messages I see from tankies while China and Russia are very racist. Russia even one of the biggest Nazi concentrations. Even right now putin is especially recruiting non ethnic Russians from Asia regions to send to Ukraine and can afford losing so many people because ethnic Russians didn’t care about them in face they hate them.
Yes, I also think all of this you claim it’s true. However, I don’t recall China pretending to spread freedom in other countries nor Russia pretending to be the beacon of morality around the world. The USA has taken (and enjoyed) those titles heavily, it is only fair we point out how hypocritical it is
Why do they apparently still use cheques in 2026?
They may not be the most common method of payment, but they are regularly used.
It depends on the country you are in.
In the U.S. checks are still a very common way to pay bills for businesses. The reason: checks are cheaper. ACH fees are more expensive.
In other countries the reverse is true. Checks cost money while ACH is free. So everyone does ACH and checks are almost unheard of.
In the U.S. it’s faster and easier to reimburse myself from the my business account with a check to my personal account. Its truly ridiculous process. I print out a check from the business software and sign the check. I then remote deposit the check into my personal account (endorsing then back) with my phone. The check never leaves my desk.
It costs me under $0.03 (cost of the check) to do it this way. ACH fees are $5/transaction for essentially the same thing.
what about this is a meme?
