Ryan Coogler was placed in handcuffs earlier this year, after what should have been an innocuous trip to his local bank branch.
TMZ has obtained a police report detailing a January 2022 incident in which the Black Panther and Creed franchise director was mistaken as a bank robber.
Coogler stopped by an Atlanta area Bank of America branch, wearing dark shades and a face mask. When it was his turn, he handed the teller his withdrawal slip, with a note of additional instructions written on the back. “I would like to withdraw $12,000 cash from my checking account.
Please do the money count somewhere else. I’d like to be discreet.” Though the transaction was perfectly legal, the teller, detailed in the report as a then-pregnant Black woman, received some sort of alert on her screen when attempting the transaction.
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