Black Father Interrogated By Multiple Cops For Having ‘Too Many Cards’
A video has gone viral after showing three cops surround a black father because he allegedly had too many credit cards while at an ATM.
The incident went down at a gas station in Burleson, Fort Worth, Texas after Brian Friar, 39, went to withdraw some money from an ATM on August 12. Shortly after three white officers surround him and ask him to provide evidence that the cards are his, by matching them with his ID.
“Prove to me that the rest of those cards are yours. You’ve got like ten there,” one officer says.
Friar says he is in a rush to help his wife whose car broke down, but they don’t care, and even ask him how he ended up in the suburb.
Following the incident Friar said, “I hadn’t done anything wrong. They ran my name as though I was a criminal.”
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Chief Cordell from the Burleson Police Department confirmed the incident to DailyMail.com.
In a start he said “Our three officers had stopped in the QT to take a break and I am told were approached by a male (witness) who told them the gentleman was at an ATM machine attempting to get money while using multiple cards and that the transaction kept being denied.”
“He said the man was acting suspicious. The officers approached the man, activated their body worn cameras and explained why they were contacting him.”
“Officers observed multiple receipts and cards as described by the witness. Officers asked him if he minded sharing identification to match the name on the cards and he eventually provided identification and cards.”
The officers let him go after that his ID matched all of his credit cards. However, Friar adds that they only turned on their body cameras after he began filming them.
Apparently, the police had been notified by another customer who thought it was “suspicious” that one of his cards got declined.