Bank calls police on black man trying to deposit checks from racial discrimination settlement
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Sauntore Thomas sued Enterprise Leasing Company of Detroit, his former employer, due to workplace racial discrimination and reached a confidential settlement. Thomas then brought the three settlement checks to the Livonia, Michigan, branch of TCF Bank tBank calls police on black man trying to deposit checks from racial discrimination settlement
Sauntore Thomas sued Enterprise Leasing Company of Detroit, his former employer, due to workplace racial discrimination and reached a confidential settlement. Thomas then brought the three settlement checks to the Livonia, Michigan, branch of TCF Bank that he says he’s used for almost two years. That’s where he experienced a fresh nightmare. The bank not only refused to cash or deposit his checks but actually called the police, as reported by the Detroit Free Press. Now, Thomas is suing the bank. «I didn't deserve treatment like that when I knew that the check was not fraudulent,» Thomas, who ended up closing his account with TCF Bank that Tuesday, Jan. 22, told the Free Press. «I'm a United States veteran. I have an honorable discharge from the Air Force. They discriminated against me because I'm black. None of this would have happened if I were white.» Read more