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Police video shows Arizona officers surrounding a Black man at a credit union after being erroneously told he was attempting to get money from the financial institution with a fraudulent check. The manager called the police before fully verifying the check with the person that wrote it.
According to 12 News, the incident happened in October 2021, after Almond Brewer’s check for $3,200 was not clearly authenticated at the Pinal County Federal Credit Union in Apache Junction. When the check did not read in the system, the branch manager called the police, believing the young man was scamming.
Although the manager reported the check was fake, that was never the case.
When the check was run through a third-party vendor to be authenticated, it came back “inconclusive.” The company was not able to say whether it was real or fake.
That nuanced detail was never given to the police when they were called to the credit union and arrived ready to detain a man they thought was involved in criminal activity.
Police bodycam video shows some of the exchanges between Apache Junction police officers and the bank client, with Brewer saying, “Wow. This blows my mind.”
Brewer, who believes he was racially profiled, said that he got the check from a woman he sold his boat to on Facebook Marketplace.
He tried to cash it at his personal bank but was told it would be faster to cash it at the credit union — since the check appeared to be issued from that institution.
Once Brewer gave the check to the manager and shared the instructions he was given, the manager allegedly looked at him oddly before calling the police.
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