{"id":234069,"date":"2021-04-23T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eric-andre-discusses-being-racially-profiled-in-atlanta-on-kimmel\/"},"modified":"2021-04-23T17:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:25:59","slug":"eric-andre-discusses-being-racially-profiled-in-atlanta-on-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-andre-discusses-being-racially-profiled-in-atlanta-on-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"#Eric Andr\u00e9 Discusses Being Racially Profiled in Atlanta on Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Eric Andr\u00e9 Discusses Being Racially Profiled in Atlanta on Kimmel<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

This week, Eric Andr\u00e9 said he was racially profiled at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, tweeting that plainclothes police targeted him for a supposedly random drug search. The next day (Thursday, April 22), Andr\u00e9 app<\/a>eared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> for a scheduled interview about his new film Bad Trip<\/a><\/em>. In an 11-minute segment, Andr\u00e9 went into detail about the profiling incident, describing the conduct of Clayton County Police Department as \u201cold-school, Giuliani stop-and-frisk racial profiling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 unpacked the racial dynamic of the search, pointing out that he was flying business class on a domestic flight, and was the only Black person on the jet bridge. The white police officers who interrogated him were from the Clayton County Police Department, Andr\u00e9 said. Both Kimmel and Andr\u00e9 noted that it was unusual for a search to be carried out on the jet bridge, when Andr\u00e9 had already passed security.<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9 declined to have his luggage searched and was allowed to board his plane, at which point, he joked, he \u201cgot really woke\u201d and started tweeting various authorities (up to and including Joe Biden) using the plane Wi-Fi. \u201cAnd then the mayor of Atlanta starts tweeting back at me,\u201d he added, laughing. \u201cI\u2019m like, Oh, I didn\u2019t know that was gonna work.\u201d The mayor apologized<\/a> to Andr\u00e9 and said she was investigating.<\/p>\n

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In a press conference Thursday, a representative for Clayton County Police Department gave a statement<\/a> playing down the incident; the department also released a written statement, read by Kimmel in the video below. Andr\u00e9 strongly disputed<\/a> elements of the statement, particularly the claim that officers declined to search Andr\u00e9\u2019s luggage despite receiving consent. \u201cThat was a bald-faced lie,\u201d he said. The airport released its own statement saying it would \u201cmeet with Clayton County law enforcement officers next week to review procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n

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