Comedians Eric André and Clayton English filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging they were racially profiled by police at Atlanta’s airport.
English said at a Tuesday news conference that he had a nearly identical experience six months earlier, and had"felt completely powerless, violated and cornered."
While stopped on the jet bridge, English noted that people"gawking" at him, and that he wondered for the entire 3 1/2-hour flight"By ambushing passengers in this manner, the Unit's officers compound the enormous, preexisting compulsion to cooperate with airport law enforcement by exploiting the passengers' fear that they will create an untoward scene or will appear guilty, subversive, or dangerous to their fellow passengers," the lawsuit states.
"These seizures do not meaningfully combat drug trafficking, but they do provide a financial windfall for the department by taking advantage of the permissive civil standards for asset forfeitures and the reluctance of individuals to challenge seizures," the lawsuit states. Of the 402 jet bridge stops, 378 stops had the race of the passenger listed in the records; 56% of those 378 passengers were Black and 68% were people of color, according to the lawsuit. Those are far higher percentages than in both
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