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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because he’s a Black man. 🤬[/quote]

Eh… yeah… but he also handed a note, like a bank robber.[/quote] He handed the teller a withdrawal slip and wrote on the back of it [i]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.[/i]   This is not what a bank robber does. [/quote]

I'm really having trouble understanding what the teller was even thinking.  Was it that teller that called the cops?  Or a different teller that saw a note being passed to a fellow teller and then concluded that note=robbery?  If it was the teller that read the note that called the cops, it sounds like she's just a total idiot.  If it was a neighbor teller that called, it sounds like conscious or unconscious bias -- that the mere fact of a note being passed probably would not have caused an alert if it was a white or asian customer.

I also used to pass notes to tellers years ago when I did banking for an elderly relative.  She would type out detailed instructions about what bills she wanted from her account (e.g., 15 ones, 3 fives, 2 tens, 2 rolls of quarters), and I would typically just pass it to them rather than try to explain it to them.  [/quote]

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