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Off the money: from award-winning director to bank ‘robber’
‘Black Panther’ director Ryan Coogler was arrested in January after a teller mistook him for a criminal
Black Panther director Ryan Coogler was briefly detained by police in Atlanta in January after being mistaken for a bank robber, video footage released by police there on Wednesday shows.
Coogler, 35, was arrested, then released, on January 7 after he went to Bank of America to make a transaction, according to a Variety report.
“From the call, [it] sounded like someone was trying to rob the bank,” one of the officers says in the bodycam footage...
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