Who Is Ryan Coogler Actually For Those Who Don’t Know?
Many people know who the gentleman Ryan Coogler is (unless you live somewhere I won’t say): He was the director of the groundbreaking, genre-busting first real African-themed Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Black Panther, with the main protagonist being the beloved late Chadwick Boseman, Lupitan Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan and many wonderful others.
He has done a lot of great feature movies with Michael, such as Fruitvale Station (2013), Creed (2015), and well respected in Hollywood. He is a very well-known celebrity, known and respected by his peers and other folks all over the world.
Apparently, his own bank does not really know who he is.
I am not an authority on this happenstance, so please take anything I write on this with a grain of salt as needed. Ryan, like any other person, deserves respect. He was not shown this here.
Ryan Coogler Got Arrested In A Bank In Atlanta
He went to a Bank of America branch in ATL, to withdraw some money and apparently, someone thought he was trying to rob them and called the cops.
There is a disconnect here, as you would expect that this would have occurred if he was engaging in threatening behaviour. But from all accounts, it seems to be that once again, being considered ‘black’ is threatening behaviour.
One of our people’s best and brightest’s life could have ended if he simply made one ‘false move‘. Dark-skinned people are fond of making false moves. We apparently also like being target practice.
This gentleman’s life could have ended if not for the intervention of God, sending in somewhat reasonable police officers. In any other instance, they would have justified shooting Ryan in that kind of circumstance: what’s worse than robbing a bank? Dark-skinned people have been shot for much less.
They took this man without much ado, and put him in the back of a cruiser, basically because of his skin tone.
What Was The Need For His Arrest?
Did he flash a gun? No.
Did he engage in deliberate unacceptable behaviour before his arrest? No.
Do the bank personnel not know who he is? Apparently not. He could go to that bank for 30 years and the chances of them actually remembering who he is, diminishes, per the opacity of his skin tone.
The officers were cycling through their ready-made excuses, which they tend to recite after they have ended a brother’s life. As if that will give them some sort of justification or validation for their prior acts.
God stymied them in Ryan’s case and spared us from losing another one of us. The cold water of realisation seems to wear on them when he invited them to “Google me“.
Because he was wearing a hoodie and black (expensive) sunglasses, that was enough reason for the authorities to throw around Ryan’s life like a fastball.
How To Avoid This
I would say in prior ignorance that a change of clothing would be in order for him, but I digress. I have seen brothers and sisters, smartly dressed, promptly get waylaid by the police without as much as an afterthought by them.
Only God can save us.
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