Black Panther director Ryan Coogler mistakenly handcuffed as bank robber
- Police were alerted after the filmmaker tried to withdraw over US$10,000 and handed the teller a note asking for the transaction to be handled discreetly
- The officer who filed the report said the incident was ‘a mistake by Bank Of America’ and that Coogler was never in the wrong
Ryan Coogler, director of Hollywood blockbusters Black Panther and Creed, was erroneously handcuffed after an Atlanta bank teller grew concerned of a potential robbery, police said.
The incident occurred on January 18 when Coogler asked to withdraw money from Bank of America by handing a note to an unidentified teller, requesting that the transaction be handled discreetly, according to an Atlanta Police Department report obtained by the New York Daily News.
The withdrawal request was for more than US$10,000, police said.
Coogler, 35, was handcuffed by responding officers, while two of his associates were taken to a police vehicle.
The officer who filled out the police report said “the incident is a mistake by Bank Of America” and that “Mr Coogler was never in the wrong”.
Coogler confirmed the incident to Variety.
