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Comedian Eric Andre sues police over ‘racial profiling’ after ‘coercive stop’ in Atlanta airport

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supports HTML5 videoComedians Eric Andre and Clayton English have filed a lawsuit against a police program at an Atlanta airport over ‘racial profiling and coercive stops’.Last year, Andre alleged that he was racially profiled by two officers while traveling through the Atlanta Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport – with the law enforcement officials asking if they could ‘search him for drugs’.He called out the incident on social media at the time, and is now taking legal action over their actions.Both the Bad Trip actor, 39, and 40-year-old English, have claimed that they were singled out by officers over the color of their skin and grilled them over drugs during separate incidents.‘People were gawking at me and I looked suspicious when I had done nothing wrong,’ Andre said, describing his experience as ‘dehumanizing and demoralizing’.According to the legal paperwork, via AP, the purpose of the program is to help Clayton County police officers fight drug trafficking, but drugs are rarely found in their searches.The documents state that officials selectively stop passengers, take their identification and interrogate them before they board, incidents which are thought to be ‘random’ and known as ‘consensual encounters’.However, their lawyers have argued that these ‘rely on coercion, and targets are selected disproportionately based on their race’.A spokesperson for Clayton County police told Metro.co.uk that the department does not comment on pending litigation.Andre spoke out against being stopped last April, with the department stating that it was a ‘consensual’ stop.‘Mr Andre chose to speak with investigators during the initial encounter,’ a statement shared on Facebook at the time read. ‘During the encounter, Mr.

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