ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First/InvestigateTV) – Comedian Clayton English was boarding a flight to Los Angeles when he was stopped by two narcotics officers on the jet bridge.
“I made it through the TSA checkpoint, made it on the train to my gate, got all the way to the gate, waited at the gate,” English said, recalling the 2020 stop. “And now you pop out on the jet bridge? It just wasn’t making sense to me.”
English and fellow Black comedian Eric André filed a lawsuit against Clayton County Police accusing narcotics officers of racially profiling them at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
The comedians’ lawsuit cites a national study published in 2016 (using 2015 travel data) showing Black passengers made up eight percent of the flying public. The lawsuit claims 56 percent of passengers stopped by Clayton County were Black.
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