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That all sounds pretty fucked up. Banks have a process where they verify cashier's checks. Sometimes if it is between two different banks, it takes a few minutes for them to look something up. When it is the same bank that issues the check, I can't imagine it being an issue at all. If the check was valid and from the same bank, and the individual had valid ID, this should have never happened.

I didn't spot in the article where it said he was African-American of the traditional variety, i.e. native born. The name sounds native African, although that doesn't mean it is. I can tell you that Nigerians get stereotyped A LOT here in the States for running financial scams and sending fake cashier's checks to victims. Local news stations do segments warning people not to accept cashier's checks from strangers, especially if they're from Nigeria. It could be the bank employee was, like a dumbass, assuming there was some scam involved because of the African-sounding name, more so than straight racial profiling against African-Americans, especially if the individual was truly African and speaking English with a non-native accent.

He will undoubtedly win a fat lawsuit, and the bank employee will probably be fired from their job unless they can prove they were following some documented procedure.

This idea that the bank should have called 911 to expedite his release from jail is bogus in my experience. 911 operators get a lot of non-emergency calls which they rudely ignore and that's understandable. A call to 911 by a bank employee about a financial crime would definitely get ignored the same way.