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A Detroit man who had been awarded a settlement from a racial discrimination lawsuit says he only found more discrimination when went to his bank and tried to cash the checks.
Sauntore Thomas had claimed that a former employer racially discriminated against him, and eventually the two sides reached a confidential settlement that left the man with three large checks, the Detroit Free Press reported. When Thomas took the check to a nearby branch of TCF Bank, they refused to cash or deposit it, and instead called police to launch a fraud investigation.
This week, Thomas filed another racial discrimination lawsuit against TCF Bank, claiming that he was humiliated when a branch in the Detroit suburb of Livonia called four police officers to investigate his deposits. The bank claimed that the deposits were marked as fraudulent by the bank’s computer system, and TCF Bank spokesman Tom Wennerberg said that race played no factor.