Last Friday, Beverly Hills police detained a tall, bald black man they saw walking down a local street. They cuffed him, made him sit on the sidewalk for over an hour and jailed him for 6 hours because he "matched the description" of a man who had just robbed a nearby bank...a tall, bald black man.
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He was Charles Belk, a Hollywood TV producer, on his way to check his parking meter...He had been RUNNING, but slowed to a walk when he got a text, and was then stopped and arrested.
He repeatedly asked them to have someone identify him or to check the bank cameras , which no one bothered to do. He states the police never read him his rights and denied repeated requests for a lawyer. He was being held on $100,000 bail until someone actually DID watch the bank security video and found he looked nothing like the actual robber, who at this time is long gone.
Beverly Hills Police have apologized for the "inconvenience"...Mr. Belk states he is very glad he had stopped running just before police saw him...