Iraqi student and family arrested while depositing check

[DonViejo]

Jenna Farhat, Managing Editor • September 11, 2017 •

Sattar Ali, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at Wichita State, said he and his family were racially profiled and arrested while depositing a check Wednesday.

Ali, who is originally from Iraq and came to the United States in 1993, said he was depositing a check for nearly $151,000 at the Emprise Bank location at 21st Street and Woodlawn Avenue when over 15 police cars showed up and arrested him. Ali’s wife and 15-year-old daughter were also arrested. He said the check came from a house he sold in Michigan.

“No one told me why I was being arrested until we were being released,” Ali said. “They didn’t read me rights or anything.” Ali said he was later told that the bank had trouble verifying the check and called the police.

Ali said he provided all the necessary documentation and information needed to verify the check, including the information from the company that issued the check. He also said that police did not take steps to verify the check until after the arrest was made.

“They jumped to conclusions,” Ali said, because the check was “presented by someone named Sattar Ali, not James or Robert.”

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. And ALL OF THEM ARE CITIZENS of the US.

[MineralMan]

2. Apparently, if you have a foreign-sounding name, normal

financial transactions are cause for arrest. On the other hand, when I was handed a check for almost $300,000 after selling my house in California, I walked across the street in my little town and deposited it in my bank account without incident. Nobody asked me any questions about it. They just took the check, gave me a receipt for the deposit, and I went home to open a bottle of champagne.

But, then, I'm a white guy with a common English (Scottish) last name, so I couldn't possibly be doing anything wrong.

[Angry Dragon]

5. MineralMan doesn't sound very Scottish .......... just saying

Time to change banks

[MineralMan]

6. I come from a long line of miners, with forbears

who mined in the British Isles. I have, perhaps, the most common name possible in Scotland, I think.

[JimGinPA]

3. 15 Police Cars To Arrest Someone Depositing A Check...

This explains why cops need tanks. JFC

[Blue_true]

8. Slow day in the city I guess.

Maybe the real criminals were vacationing in Switzerland or something.

[NCjack]

4. Satter Ali, while presenting his check to his bank, had this thought:

"We should have gotten double this amount for our house." And, then suddenly, the bank manager made that possible.

[lunasun]

9. I hope so , the bank made no attempt to verify the deposit , and carry on a standard v

financial transaction . The police is a whole other issue with the arrest with out proof of any wrong doing
May just get triple the house price and for such out right aggression, these institutions deserve the only penalty they care about which is a monetary one

[monmouth4]

11. Did anyone, police, bank, apologize to these people? Outrageous. I hope he sues and sues big..nt

[uponit7771]

13. +1

[raven mad]

7. This is nothing short of disgusting.

http://www.racialprofilingwichitaks.com/profiling-must-end.html

WHY STOP RACIAL PROFILING IN WICHITA, KANSAS

Racial profiling of Black and Hispanic drivers is a major problem in Wichita, Kansas and throughout the USA. This unequal enforcement of traffic laws is a tremendous financial and social burden for Minority drivers and their families. Then taxes go up for more jail cells, judicial system employees and financial assistance to Minorities who lose their jobs due to these “pretext” stops.

In most cases, racial profiling starts with a traffic stop for which White drivers would seldom be given a ticket. Instead, some police officers, sheriff deputies or State Police are using phony traffic violations as their “probable cause pretext” to stop people-of-color to question or search them, their passengers and/or their vehicles. As a result, thousands of innocent Minority people are ticketed and fined after these racially motivated stops when they are driving home from work, out getting groceries or simply walking.

The Wichita Police Department study of 37,454 traffic and pedestrian stops in 2001 found: Blacks are twice as likely to be stopped by WPD. Blacks were 3 times more likely to be searched, arrested or have officers use excessive force. Black and Hispanic drivers were more likely to be stopped at night than White drivers.

A second Wichita Police Department study in 2004 showed similar results. Plus, the study done by the Washington, D.C. based Police Foundation for the State of Kansas showed that Blacks are twice as likely to be stopped as Whites in Wichita. There is no change as of 2013. This means that nearly 8,000 more Blacks in Wichita are pulled over each year than if no racial profiling was done by the WPD.

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

Welcome to sTrumpet's America.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. In many places, the legal harassment of non-whites is how the police Dept, funds itself.

as Ferguson showed.

[Hekate]

10. I know a family that changed their name shortly after 9-11. The whole extended family...

They chose a family name -- it's theirs by right, just not so recognizably Middle Eastern. Last time I saw him he'd decided to use his initials socially, instead of his first name.

That is just outrageously sad, but not the first time in our history.

I grew up near a multiracial family that was carrying a Japanese surname at the outbreak of WWII, and reached back into family history and took their Danish grandpa's surname instead. The department store I worked in during college was called Liberty House, but originally carried the German name of its founder until WWI.

This country has a strain of nativism that periodically breaks out in the ugliest ways. And here we are -- again.

[Mosby]

12. I don't know who screwed up worse, the bank or the cops

The only thing that might make this more complicated is if the check was issued by a foreign bank, otherwise if the bank had issues about the deposit they should have filed a suspicious activity report and that's it.

The cops otoh had no business detaining these people, they were guilty of nothing, and there is no obvious intent of any crime being committed. They have a lot of explaining to do.

[jcmaine72]

15. Trump's 'Murica

Where men are men and Muslims are monsters.