Eric André and Clayton English Sue Clayton County Police Over Alleged Racial Profiling at Atlanta Airport
etonline.comComedians Eric André and Clayton English have filed a lawsuit against Clayton County following two separate incidents of alleged racial profiling and coercive searches at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.In the lawsuit filed by their lawyers in a Georgia federal court, the comedians allege that the constitutional rights protecting them against unreasonable searches, seizures and racial discrimination were violated while they were boarding their respective flights last year.
The lawsuit names Clayton County, CCPD chief Kevin Roberts, CCDAO investigator Michael Hooks, and multiple CCPD officers. The officers named in the filing include Aimee Branham, Tony Griffin, Kevin Campbell, and C.
Smith.Both André and English claim officers singled them out during stops roughly six months apart because they are Black and grilled them about drugs as other passengers watched.
English was stopped while flying from Atlanta to Los Angeles for work on Oct. 30, 2020, and André as he traveled to his home in Los Angeles on April 21, 2020.The lawsuit says officers blocked English and André as they entered the jet bridge and asked if they were carrying illegal drugs.
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