Ryan Coogler

The Atlanta Police Department released bodycam footage Wednesday that showed its officers detaining Ryan Coogler, the director of Black Panther, ...

"I asked for his ID and he handed me his ID," the teller tells the operator in the 911 call. In a statement to BuzzFeed News, a spokesperson for Bank of America said, "We deeply regret that this incident occurred. Coogler explains to officers that the money was for a medical assistant who works for his family who prefers to be paid in cash. Coogler did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Two people who were waiting for Coogler in a black SUV outside the bank are also handcuffed. "I ain't had guns drawn on me in a while, bro. The bank teller told police on the video that Coogler's account showed an alert indicating it was a "high-risk transaction." Coogler asks for all the officers' names. Both Coogler and the bank teller are Black. “If she was scared, she’s got to admit that.” I have to protect my child." “I just had guns drawn for taking money out my own account."

Body cam footage of the incident shows the "Black Panther" director handcuffed inside a bank.

A Bank of America spokesperson told ET Canada: “We deeply regret that this incident occurred. “This situation should never have happened. I’d like to be discreet.”

Black Panther director Ryan Coogler has condemned the wrongful bank robbery arrest he experienced earlier this year.

A Bank of America spokesperson added: "We deeply regret that this incident occurred. However, Bank of America worked with me and addressed it to my satisfaction and we have moved on." After verifying Coogler's identity and his Bank of America account, the officers released him and his colleagues.

A Bank of America teller calls police in Atlanta after becoming nervous when the director of the hit Marvel film Black Panther tried to make a large ...

“We deeply regret that this incident occurred. Another body camera video showed the teller explaining that Coogler gave her the withdrawal slip and after he had inserted his debit card and asked to make a withdrawal, he pointed at the note instead of answering her questions. Police determined the whole thing was a mistake by the teller and Coogler "was never in the wrong", the report said. A description of Coogler given by the driver matched the description of the man reported to have been trying to rob the bank, according to the report. Coogler walked into a Bank of America branch on January 7 and passed the teller a withdrawal slip with a note written on the back asking her to "be discreet when handing him the cash", according to a police report. He was trying to withdraw more than $US10,000, and the teller “received an alert notification" from his account and quickly alerted her manager that Coogler was trying to rob the bank, the report said.

Coogler was trying to withdraw a large sum of his own money when the bank teller alerted her manager that he was trying to rob the bank.

When she explained Coogler wanted $12,000 and the transaction made her feel uncomfortable, her manager suggested going to talk to him, she told officers. When she asked for his ID and he gave her a California ID, she said the transaction seemed odd and her “stomach started turning.” Police determined the whole thing was a mistake by the teller and Coogler “was never in the wrong,” the report says. Coogler explained to the officers that a medical assistant who works for him prefers to be paid in cash. Still sitting in the back of the police SUV, Coogler is seen on video looking down and shaking his head as the officer explains. The officer detained both the driver and passenger in the back of a police vehicle but they were not placed in handcuffs.

The director of "Fruitvale Station" and "Black Panther" was running a mundane errand in Atlanta—and ended up in handcuffs.

Over the past couple of days, from the momentary comfort and tenuous security of my home in Oakland, I’ve watched the Coogler video. But being “weird” and from California is not a crime, even in the state of Georgia. An errand to the bank shouldn’t trigger trauma or the anxiety that comes from being labeled, misjudged, and placed in handcuffs. Thankfully, the consequences of the incident, chalked up as “a mistake” by a bank teller, weren’t dire. Coogler’s Fruitvale Station still haunts us, a reminder that violence against Black bodies is an ever-present threat during interactions with the police. It didn’t matter that he went to both St. Mary’s and USC. All of that history and hard work became irrelevant when Coogler walked into that bank. He is handcuffed and placed in the back of an officer’s vehicle. Democratic state representative Park Cannon was arrested last year for knocking on the door of a fellow lawmaker’s home. A Black man walks into a Bank of America branch in Atlanta. He is wearing sunglasses and a sweatshirt, a work badge with his picture hanging in plain view on his right hip, and an N95 mask over his mouth and nose. Whereas white people can literally climb the walls of a federal building and create chaos with relatively little consequence for nearly everyone involved, Black people are only freely “allowed” and “permitted” into a seemingly endless array of spaces only when they’re deemed useful. But she did notice that it was a California ID, and described Coogler as “acting weird.” I get it. Otherwise, Black people are all-too-frequently considered a threat for wanting and having something of our own, or simply some space to ourselves.