You understand that half the place you get off a aircraft and a few officers instantly ask you which ones medicine you’re trafficking? No? Eric André does, and has since felt an ethical calling to do what he can to fight the “consensual encounter” in an Atlanta airport that felt a lot more like racial profiling. You may hearken to his personal account of the encounter under:
Fortunately, he’s going to set a second probability at lowering the chance that Atlanta airport patrons aren’t equally harassed. NBC Information has protection:
A federal appeals courtroom determined to reverse the dismissal of a lawsuit comedians Eric André and Clayton English filed in 2022 claiming their Fourth Modification rights have been violated.
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The district courtroom dismissed their lawsuit in 2023, citing the plaintiffs’ “failure to plausibly allege any constitutional violations,” and all defendants, together with Clayton County and the police division’s chief, have been protected by immunity. However the eleventh U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals stated in its opinion that it discovered that André and English “plausibly alleged that Clayton County subjected them to unreasonable searches and seizures” and reversed the dismissal “after cautious evaluate.”
Whereas this isn’t a whole victory — the courtroom discovered that the person officers have been protected by certified immunity — a profitable go well with towards Clayton County might nonetheless do away with the “consensual encounters” that simply occurred to drag apart Black passengers 54% of the time despite Black passengers only making up 8% of the national flying public. That stated, kudos to no matter police PR particular person determined to name profiling flight departees “consensual encounters” as a substitute of “flight cease and frisk” or “harassing anybody who seems like they’ve cash.”
It’s exhausting to see the usefulness of this system contemplating that flyers need to undergo TSA earlier than they board the flight — any medicine or unlawful objects ought to have been caught within the screening course of. Better of luck to Eric André and Clayton English.
Eric André Lawsuit Over Drug Search At Atlanta Airport Revived By Appeals Court [NBC News]
Earlier: Eric André Takes A Break From Slapstick To Stop Atlanta PD From Being A Flight Risk
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