No matter what projected traits we use to categorize the bank teller who called cops on Ryan Coogler, she’s just a Black woman trying to make a living in a country that conditioned her to see a Black man as an imminent threat.
Several past instances of racist banking practices against Black and brown customers and employees alike cost Bank of America hundreds of millions of dollars in fines well before the Ryan Coogler fiasco.
In the suit, the 34-year-old medical official claimed that the bank's employees accused her of her fraud and questioned her employment as a doctor.
JPMorgan exposed for racist company practices following discrimination lawsuit.
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