A Georgia doctor was confronted by police after a bank employee who feared he was going to rob the bank called 911 on him.
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“They said I was suspicious, I was wearing a hat, and they thought I wanted to rob the bank, and I was like, ‘What?’” Onyegbula said.
The doctor said he was at a United Community Bank attempting to open a new account with his wife. He says a bank employee called 911 to report him while he was on the phone with her.
Bank employee’s 911 call: He went to the front door and he’s been on his phone, and, I, um, called from my phone to tell the employees to lock the front door.
He’s been on his phone out front. And we have no cars in the parking lot. He’s a walker. So, I feel like he’s up to no good.
“I looked at the door and it said close at 4:30 and my time say about 2:15, 2:10. I’m like what happened?” Onyegbula said.
Onyegbula said he left and went to another nearby bank and that’s when they realized police had been called.
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The officers left without pressing any charges.
“Until it happens to you, you never know what it
“So you think it was racial profiling?” Johnson asked Onyegbula.
“Yes,” Onyegbula responded.
42 comments
Sue those dutty stinkin rass dem kmft
Cut ties with that bank. Close your accounts and go elsewhere. Why would a bank robber come in to make a deposit and then rob the bank with his wife there with him. Idiotic. When y’all get robbed it won’t be a Black man and his wife. If we find out who called the police to begin with go to small claims and Sue that person for the max the court allows. Doc don’t go to that racist ass bank anymore!!!!! Hopefully all Black people take their business elsewhere. Boycott their asses!!!!!
M Jones, you stole my thunder. I was gonna say the exact same thing
I agree
I was too!
This do make no sense at all. So we as black people can’t have money to open up an acct and be doctors. WOW…
Seriously, such bullshit to be thrown in ur day!!. What bank was it??
Now they see that African Americans are not just complaining for nothing. They don’t care how much education you have or how cultured you are. If you are black you are black. African immigrants included.
Wow! Their paranoia is a major health threat. I think it’s time we start calling the police with their fear.
Don’t put your money in that bank. And if you already have an accout close it.
It’s not paranoia it’s shear stupidity.
The police were call on me at the Hilton Garden in Mayfield Hts village Ohio because guests were leaving the room and were to loud talking about racial profiling.
….embarrassing, i was born and raised in Georgia, now residing in west Virginia, not any better….
I would sue their azz and force them to make a Public apology on TV… next I would have the Manager and who ever else was involved to be fired.
Every employee that was involved in this racial profiling should be fired , the bank sued & in the future train employees in how to deal with minorities nonjudgementally .
First of all doctors are not minority’s. We should start calling the police on them with how they make us feel whenever we are in public places. It is very intimidating and very uncomfortable. Let them feel what we feel like when tested by their thoughts and imaginations. However, the police when called by us will probably take their side anyhow.
Doctors are not minorities?? Explain 🤨🤨😳😳
Open an account at a Black-owned bank and you won’t have to deal with such foolishness. Support Black-owned businesses!!!
Exactly!! And there are a number of them in the Atlanta area. No excuse for anyone locally to avoid them.
I say it is time that we patronage our black banks. That is the answer. Let them feel the sting
No no no disagree with training people to deal with black people, it’s this simple it’s like this because Trump have brought the worst out of people which was already in them, because how most white people were raised and the environment they are apart of,no one act this way to people of color but MOST WHITE PEOPLE point blank show me another group of people that do I’ll wait.
Most white people ain’t raised that way just like most black people ain’t raised to be criminals. Media gets things hyped up like all people be hatein on each other just cause of skin color. We we all going to wake up a treat people like people. There ain’t one person I have ever met that likes to be treated bad just cause they different looking. Hate is taught at home and can be stopped at home. What are we feeding our youth?
You can’t win for losing I would sue their ass for racial profiling
Leave the Bank!!! let everyone know the name of the Bank, where it’s located, while watching and profiling people of color, people are being murdered by people that are not of color, because they are never suspects! After they kill a few people they become mentally ill and they get more attention than the victims! Lord Help!!!
@SAM we can be Doctors, Lawyers and professional ball players with a lot of money but we have never trusted each other with our money on a large scale to open accounts at black owned banks. Think about all the black professional ball players it would be amazing if they would pick black agents. Point is i bet you will not find one white professional athlete with a black agent. Don’t go looking for one just to prove me wrong, but you get my point.
He can go looking for one; he won’t locate any. One of my closest friends is a successful agent, and it’s a known fact.
Leave the bank close your account and sue for defamation of character and for racial profiling
As “Black News” you should write an actual article. It should include the full address of this bank’s location. The cave tramp’s name (who called the white nationalist race soldiers, calling themselves), bank manager’s name. The response from those “people”. A statement from corporate, too. And the pigs for why no charges were being filed against the beasts.
Was Becky fired? And if not, why?
And finally, maybe a solution or two, like links to Black banks in that area.
The poor naga victim story is played out….
We need more black business and a Black Bank need to be first thing we should have
My bank has a no hats, or sunglasses policy….I’m not justifying anything u towards thus brother…but dammit rules are rules, these people are in fear for their lives….Follow the damn rules please ijs man we gotta stand for what is right….Just because he is a dr. And I am a dr.I just gently remove my golf hat, and put it back on when I leave…..Class personified, sorry but the rule is not for black men only, ai saw them ask a white guy to leave…quick question seen a bank robber.with no hat lately?
He has a hat on in that picture. Don’t mean he had hat on at bank! Your part of the problem, making excuses for bad judgement and behavior!
He made a transaction. So if the policy is no hats then they should’ve addressed that before allowing a transaction. . So please stop with that bank policy. Where do you live cause in NY you won’t see any such nonsense policy. People walk in the bank with and without hats and glasses and rob the bank. A hat has nothing to do with it. I think you look at to much TV.🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
Is a hat….robbery wear? Did most of the terrorists wear hats & was on the phone before they shot up the place? They should ask everyone who enters to remove hat….did they ask before calling or just hopped on the phone. Expose them, protest them & sue them.
Maybe i should start calling the police on white pple who watch my sons in the store assuming they gonna steal, im watching them while they watch my sons, then turn pink when i check they ass.
I WOULD SUE THE BANK, CLOSE THE ACCOUNT AND ANYONE I KNOW ENCOURAGE THEM TO LEAVE AND ALL BLACKS SHOULD NEVER BANK THERE AGAIN. OUR MONEY DON’T HAVE COLOR, ITS ALL GREEN
@Mac, are you sure this particular Bank has a no hat policy? My bank doesn’t. IF they do have that policy, Someone could have simply asked him to remove his hat without calling the police and assuming he was a bank robber. I believe they went to far and something should be done about it.
Close accounts & cut ties with the bank? NOT GOOD ENOUGH! Find out which local service organizations, unions, community organizations & churches do business with the bank. Ask THEM to close THEIR accounts tooo. This bank needs a new manager and new staff after something this egregious. The good doctor should let his own staff and all medical contacts(including suppliers and sales reps) know what happened to him. Inexcusable!
this will never stop the person that got this started is the leader of this country and I really don’t care what nobody think I said what I wanted to say okkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
What’s the name of this bank?When are they going to get it, that people of color has education, and even more than they. Do we have to follow anyone’s advice to hate our brothers and sisters? Whether we like it or not, we are all one. This world will soon come to an end. Where do we plan to spend eternity?We must learn to be leaders , meaning, learn to think for ourselves. We don’t need to hate each other, just because someone said so. No one was born with hatred. It is a learned behavior.
Were there any accountability for the bank employer and the bank. Seems all responded to her/his nonsense assessment of this man
Hatred and racism is taught right now it’s being taught by the head of our country, the president of the United States it doesn’t get any worst than that !!!
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