Florida woman, 70, sues MidFlorida Credit Union for racial discrimination

[@ulyssesgrant2782]

To an elderly person, $600 dollars is a lot of money...whether you're black or white. The police agency needs to be sued as well. I hope she wins her lawsuit.

[@stephanieduncan277]

Exactly

[@brendaglynn3052]

I agree!!!

[@thecruisingmacs6239]

Yes, always sue the police. LOL Soon it will be none left!!!!!

[@Enation92]

@@thecruisingmacs6239 they fractured an old women's nose for no good reason dont you think there should be some consequence ?

[@thecruisingmacs6239]

@@Enation92 79 year old man shot and killed a law officer. Age means............bye

[@mzdivafalifemac2888]

What a disgrace! So sorry you had to be humiliated in such a way. This whole thing could have been resolved if they would've gave Ms. Linda her $600 back. All in involved need to be fired! She need to file a lawsuit against the police department and that bank. This was truly a racist act. Now she can pay off her home. Thank you to her husband who served our country. God bless you both.

[@loridean177]

This should be elder abuse also. Due to her age they probably thought she forgot or would just go away. I wonder how many elderly customers they defraud especially those who do not have family members to help them.

[@pamelam9621]

This poor lady!! This is beyond horrible. This bank needs to be shut down.

[@stephanieduncan277]

Exactly

[@arcticwater3206]

You heard NOTHING about the officer who broke her nose being charged and arrested!

[@artaxerxes2363]

@@arcticwater3206 you mean the same Officer who kicked her in the teeth or was that a different one

[@artaxerxes2363]

Trying to get on their good side are ya!

[@janahYT]

Call them and complain for her. Such a sad story for that lovely lady.

[@michellebless2284]

THE BANK AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SHOULD BE ASHAME OF THEMSELVES I WOULD SUED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TOO FOR HOW SHE WAS TREATED IN THE JAIL THIS STORY MADE ME CRY MY HEART GOES OUT FOR THIS WOMEN WHO REMIND ME OF MY LATE GRANDMA 8 PRAY VICTORY FOR HER. STAND STILL AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD AND WATCH HIS MIGHTY HAND

[@stephanieduncan277]

AMEN

[@juanitamccollum8496]

They really should be ashamed of themselves, especially those Police Officers! The lady had the receipt proving that she had deposited her money in the ATM! But you know, all the evil that people are doing toward other people, and thinking it is funny, especially when done to People of color, when it comes to them, then they will know how people felt when evil was done to them!

[@pattiross3798]

The Police officers who arrested her and the teller who called should be arrested for a hate crime and put in prison for 20 years, they are criminals, and the credit should be forced to pay her 100 million in punitive damages and another 100 million in fines!!!!

[@carmellasimpson934]

This is not poor customer service, this is racist behavior and should be sued 😢

[@sonnyday7400]

I hope all people who get a bad treatment from the bank remove their money.

[@Mr-Keyes]

It's one thing to be arrested and assaulted, but to be stripped naked and thrown in jail at 70 years old is beyond disgusting! The officers involved acted like slave owners in Chattel slavery. It figures it happened in Racist Ron Defascists state.

[@stephanieduncan277]

PREACH

[@adamf.585]

Welcome To AmeriKKKa, This Happining Daily

[@gregoryharris8706]

The abolition of slave trade is a big Hoax. We are experiencing a more contemporary style of slavery.

[@yvettemiller3819]

The callous disregard for this bank customer of 50 years is incomprehensible.

[@minniemartin5367]

Ohhh Mrs Linda I'm so sorry you had to go through that

[@stephanieduncan277]

Sara the monkey 🙈 cavebeast go back in your cave

[@DenofLeos]

Well there you have it, if a caucasian actually came out and apologized then, they knew they were wrong. So banking while black card consequences and repercussions make sense. Arm up, at least you will have a chance at some respect.

[@danielcunningham6727]

​@saramill2097 would you leave with $600 of your missing ? Bootlicker.

[@thoroughconsumer3823]

I'd be boycotting that bank ASAP if I banked there! Even if she went about it the wrong way she still didn't deserve that treatment. Whoever said she had a gun need to be arrested for the false report to police. And sue the police department as well.

[@patriciasanford39]

Amen

[@sarcocgaming]

You can see that in Winter Haven…..

[@writerconsidered]

It was the cop who reported that false police report.

[@stephanieduncan277]

Thank you Midflorida credit union for PAYING off their HOME 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@arcticwater3206]

And some! The bank manager needs to be fired AND charged, Plus the cop NEEDS to be charged & fired!!!

[@micah9096]

Trying to save face and some money. It's cheaper to pay it off than millions in a suit!

[@arcticwater3206]

@@micah9096 this is STILL going to be in the millions even if that the bank decides to pay the lady off to make it go away

[@babymonalisa]

Paying off her mortgage is not enough and is still an insult to her. The bank needs shutting down and people need to be held accountable to the law.

[@DJ-yw8ix]

Banks also take into account the customer's account history. Customer for 50 yrs. and did her account maintained a stable balance or did her account have a history of being overdrawn. She probably had a history of making this same $600 dollar deposit monthly. The most important fact the man doing maintenance on the ATM Machine said he found $600 in the machine that probably didn't go in the canister properly. That was even more reason this woman should have been given a provisional credit. There was absolutely no reason for the customer service representative or teller to treated her this way. She should be fired.

[@My2CentsYall]

She is black in America Your service does not matter. they do not care if your a veteran, doctor, ex police officer.

[@brendaglynn3052]

I'm a senior citizen and the lesson learned here, "No more cash in the box day or night!"

[@Kemet3.0]

Nope, if you're banking there for 50 years and have no problems. ???

@@Kemet3.0 WHAT, obviously you are in DENIAL. Let's call a spade a spade. But perhaps that is too difficult for you. Sure, sure.

[@angelindisguise229]

I'll file a lawsuit against the bank, the police department and the jail house for the mistreatment. BLESS HER HEART ❤️

[@paulwilliams6320]

The oldest crime in America is being black. So in instances of injustice go after the one thing the powerful understand and that's money. Take them to court. Put them on notice in the media so that others know to stay away from them. This bank, and there are others, don't deserve black money. If what I'm hearing about her police interaction is also true, they too need sued. We want justice and equal treatment and we want it now. To know justice is to know peace. I'm so sorry what this lady, Mrs. Linda Stevens, went through. Being black in America shouldn't hurt as it often does.

[@kgmams9852]

Spent s night in jail for demanding her money the bank couldn't prove it was safe... May she get millions in return from that bank... They should be badly sued as a lesson never to be repeated...

[@christopherhogg3227]

This is just so wrong on every level conceivable. I wish she had been my teacher or my children's. She's a lovely person. She needs to be compensated!

[@alanacartes3382]

She said she went in with the receipt, demanding to know where that deposit was because they had not posted to her account. Anyone would be justifiably UPSET, especially walking in atm deposit receipt in hand. I'm glad she's taking them to court because RATHER than the management stepping in to profusely apologize and immediately look at the receipt to confirm and corroborate or not their customers' claim. Even though atm was down, if she was ABLE to deposit AND was issued a receipt from the atm, that means the atm camera had to be on during the transaction the day before (in the event their own receipt wasn't proof enough, not to mention the lady was an account holder of 50 years..) They had no business calling the police when they SHOULD and could have de escalated and apologizing for the scare and inconvenience, verifying that receipt and considering their own machine fritzed out and quickly posted this 50 year customer's deposit. The thing IS that credit union would have to have engaged qualified and professional management at the branch which as evidenced by what happened to this poor lady, they did not. So now they will learn from this case.

[@redlightstudiovybe2174]

I pray all of these people get what they deserve after the disrespectful, abuse treatment, discrimination, racial dehumanization, and disregard for her civil rights.

[@ezrapigatt9707]

I experience racism with mid Florida May she get the justice she deserves.

[@leewhitbeck791]

The cop is also at fault by saying the grandmother said she had a gun. Police always try to jam pack their arrests...like , throw the mud on a wall and see what sticks......Internal affairs is only one office next to the police desk. Internal affairs were also the police they work for.

[@mike_d_melb_music_fan5229]

I keep hearing of police arresting people purely to up their arrest rate and get promoted.

[@daskritterhaus5491]

l lived thru the civil right movement and am ashamed and FURIOUS this is STILL HAPPENING 50 gawdforsaken YEARS later.

[@zoraidita2022]

Jail??? Give that woman her money.

[@michellejackson8969]

Everybody everybody black person that is in that teachers union and that bank in Florida should take their money out and put it somewhere else show your reverence show your disappointment show your approval use your money what they need to make money off of us take your money out of that bank and put it somewhere else tell them to get lineup lineup and be on the news all the black people got their money in that bank and ask for a cashier's check I want my account closed

[@michellejackson8969]

Every every woman officer that treated her like a dog they must hate their mother because how could you treat this woman like this this awful everybody that was involved needs to be held accountable they need to be fired they they just didn't do that to her they've been doing it big old ugly nasty bully CEOs down in Florida and I bet you they were black

[@ksaljulimaiajuli5687]

Sue them for all they have. No other nations of people they will have done this to. They still treat us today the same way we first stepped foot off that slave boat. Nothing has changed

[@marylandviking74]

This is the most absurdly ridiculous comment that I have read in years!!!

[@ksaljulimaiajuli5687]

Any nation of people working for another nation of people are slaves. Blacks in America owned nothing. All we do is work and play sports for massa.

[@ksaljulimaiajuli5687]

As a nation of people we are at the bottom economically when compare to the other nations of people. We live in the worst neighborhoods, worst schools, baby mamma and single parent. You need to wake up out this matrix.

[@DenofLeos]

Well there you have it, if a caucasian actually came out and apologized then, they knew they were wrong. So banking while black card consequences and repercussions make sense. Arm up, at least you will have a chance at some respect. Separate

[@geordiewishart1683]

Well why not return to your land of origin?

[@marcusanderson-yeager6740]

Who made the call to 911 stated "she had a gun"!

[@mcooper4624]

Why didn’t the police ask the bank to give her her money when they heard the story? Because he had the mentality that blacks need to be disciplined. He should be fired along with the jailers.

[@TRAVAINE5000]

Those cops need to be jailed

[@ruthanglin6513]

Discrimination against blacks by ignorant people and bad policemen

[@dameondee3289]

I put money in the ATM at Truist Bank, money didn't show up in my account. Called the bank over the phone next morning and they fixed it over the phone.

[@teagoldleaf4137]

Exactly, how on earth did they keep telling her to come back tomorrow. She had to be there 3 times. The last one was the final straw for her. Understandably because it was her house at risk. That's a lot of pressure. Another thing is that she deposited cash, It's not like depositing a check that can bounce.

[@michellejackson8969]

I would have told that lady if you don't get out my house if you get on get out my house I don't want nothing I would have never even let her in my house Don't let The devil in

[@MississippiPickers]

I hope she wins a billion dollars. What a disgrace that bank and those police are. I hope she bankrupts that bank. The whole thing sickens me that she could be treated like that.

[@sethmarie]

This is despicable. That bum bank and those bum cops. Should be held accountable.

[@wadefite]

This is not just criminal behaviour by the bank but the police who abused her.

[@boni_traxton9436]

Oh lord Bartow 😂😂😂 that’s the one I avoid at all cost

[@marinasantiago24]

Grandma sued the bank and sheriff office

[@geordiewishart1683]

Is it not racist to assume this incident is racist?

[@alanmorris7669]

In spite of its palm trees and clearwater beaches, the State of Florida has always been as racist as Alabama and Mississippi.

[@katrinalynch13]

Praying for you and your family You didn’t deserve this Thank Sir For Serving Our Country Blessings to you & Husband and For Serving Our Country Amen God Bless You and Your Family

[@vegasmitch1472]

This "Praying" BULLSHT Ain't working but Blacks keep believing it does for some reason 🙄

[@Chvelle68]

Any updates?

[@patriciasanford39]

What about the bank lying bank clerk who lied & said shee had a gun? What about the Police department that fractured her nose!?!

[@jamesjingle9533]

Grady don't talk about this

[@dameondee3289]

I was thinking the same thing, so quick to make videos about being tough on crime, but his own officers at like criminals

[@stephanieduncan277]

AMERIKKKA we aren’t SURPRISED at all .

[@artaxerxes2363]

It's a black owned credit union

[@slystally9874]

@@artaxerxes2363 no it's not. Kick rocks troll

[@richiephillips1541]

You need help.

[@mja68tx]

She's gonna be a rich grandma. 💵💵💵💰💰💰

[@bankstersb]

This is exactly why I hate making deposits through the ATM.

[@sassyx2048]

This is so heartbreaking to hear. I mean what is going on in that America??? This could be my mother. The police arrested her for what? Did they find a gun on her? Police arrestedcher because she said the word gun? You treat her like a subhuman being. Do these officers not have mothers? You throw her in a jail button naked? For what? As for the bank firstly black people need to boycott that bank. Let them see that bank crash and burn. The person who called the police and lied she had a gum needs to be arrested and thrown button naked in jail. Let them see how it feels. Let them sue their frigging behind. All this over her own money???? We all know how The ATM messes up we all know that. But because she dared to speak out after being turned away 3 times they wanted her to bow her head and say yes master, much obliged Masser, they not only called the police they lied because they knew the reaction from the police they knew the animalistic response from the police and boy did they live up to their name. Shameful police and the bank are culpable because there was no gun so why was she rough handled, nose broken and thrown into jail button naked for a day and a half.all y'all imagine thus was your mother or grandmother? Before some if you come with your rubbish. You just imagine and tell me that this was justified.

[@rosemaryjones5550]

Thieves take money customer complains gets arrested

[@ufc1243]

Banking while black smh

[@kareokefm]

FLORIDA??? enough said!

[@greeneyes0078]

If that is her husband standing next to her with a Vietnam Veterans hat on - the bank should be ashamed of themselves.

[@jacksykes2000]

Hope you win a large amount and the criminal perpetrators get jail time.

[@LadyNStreet]

Why in the world did they strip her and transport her naked?! So disrespectful

[@afrocraft1]

Where did you hear that they stripped and transported her naked? 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@michelleg.7295]

Yes, and no other news outlet, so far, even in her local state of Florida mentions that the police stripped her of her clothes, and left her naked for over 30 hours in a cell.

[@lc6636]

@@michelleg.7295The lady could have been bailed out within hours. She makes no sense.

[@mariaespiritu9512]

Don’t forget they also broke her nose when they through her, a 70 year old, retired teacher, in the back of a police car like a common criminal

[@ginaarmstrong1388]

Which teller told the lie about the Gun?? You should be sued also!!!

[@provident8732]

If it’s discrimination why is it that she bank with them for 50 years? It’s a individual issues and how you respond. Your actions predict the outcome. And these are the racist lawyers that used you to get what they want.

[@patriciasanford39]

The above comment is either a biased prejudiced white person or stupid/ ignorant. If u can't truly see blatant obvious discrimination u need to got to a special education class.

[@provident8732]

@@patriciasanford39 thank you and I was in special ed class sitting behind you.

[@cookiegilcrest1000]

DONT SETTLE! GIVE THEM THE THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS BACK!

[@DJ-yw8ix]

This is so egregious. I worked in banking for 25 yrs. There was a period when I settled ATM Machines. Anyone with a receipt should have been given something called a provisional credit. There are ATM reports that will align that receipt which has an transaction number that align to ATM reports. Those reports will tell you if that was a valid deposit. When that machine is settled and it is not over $600 we would then contact the customer and decide whether or not to reverse that credit. This bank what they did was illegal and morally wrong. Where I worked we would have never treated a customer that way.

[@teagoldleaf4137]

Thanks for sharing your insights. I'm shocked they had her return 3 times even when she presented her receipt the first time. It should have been resolved right then.

[@DallasCitizenWatch]

Where's the video? Security cameras and police body cams? Or did I miss something?

[@mariaespiritu9512]

Why don’t you call the bank and police department and ask them for it? She was stripped naked and her nose was broken. Or maybe obtain the case file Colombo.

[@sarcocgaming]

Midflorida is a nonprofit company…The NFL was a nonprofit company for 73 years! Says a lot about our tax laws.

[@rubymondesir9677]

She sue the bank plus the police department

[@Jsiajsuuajsjss]

This lawyer reminds me of better call Saul 🤣

[@LSNeely]

This is about to be Stephens Credit Union! 😳

[@thunkjunk]

Where is the video?

[@ernestholloway9436]

She had a receipt why didnt they just give her back the money she put in? She has every right to be mad at the bank. it's her money.

[@waymanquinn3084]

What happen to her $600 dollars cash. Their has to be a paper trail.

[@robertrepaich8811]

You go girl!

[@ycamara9034]

God is watching very close 😡

[@williedaniel6194]

Horrible

[@ajones8699]

Polk County well I'm suprized wonder if we will be a police press conference about this.

[@way2real364]

It's not the amount of the money involved - it's about lack of respect for Black people. here we have a 70 year old black woman - she deposited $600 into the ATM - the ATM Malfunctioned - she got her receipt as PROOF-PROOF-PROOF of her deposit which did not register cause the ATM was defective - she talk with banking management - they totally disregarded her claim, even with the ATM receipt as PROOF. Then they call the Cops - Cops said she was disturbing the Peace and resisting arrest - they throw this lady face first into the squad car - broke her nose and put her in a cell naked!!!! WTF... I hope this lady sue the Bank and Police department for $1 billion dollars.... I would sue for the MAXIMUM - I would sue for a Trillion Dollars....

[@StrengthNLove]

People all to be ashamed of themselves running tricks on these old people

[@rosettadenton2876]

Disgrace 🙏🏾

[@michellejackson8969]

No you dragged her in there the police station and it's got to be on camera and the last person that drag somebody was fired and you should be fired

[@theronedawson3236]

Every Black person who have their money with a credit union or bank should take their money out.

[@dforbay]

MAKE SURE YOU HIT THE POLICE OFFICERS NEXT MS.STEVENS, secure that bag honey.

[@pinkybeastateam]

Why do they keep getting him

[@bodhi8260]

Why is this taking so long to file the lawsuit?

[@DenofLeos]

Because its Black thang versus a Caucasian thang.

[@christianbrown85]

@@DenofLeos Not at all she will be well paid the legal process takes a few years in larger cases like tgese best not to rush.

[@johnchampion4218]

Should file charges on the police's too

[@JUSMEJAS]

Seen when does a broken nose only equal being ruffed up & "They say it was bc she was Black" How you Miss it!!

[@teagoldleaf4137]

The Case of The Black KAREN: She was panicked for sure that her mortgage payment would bounce, which could have caused her to lose her home. On her THIRD visit to the bank, she refused to leave without her 600 in cash or alternatively deposited into her bank account. Rather than get a supervisor to help correct the matter, they call the police and tell them she's got a gun! They were determined to teach this Karen a lesson because all it takes these days to be a Karen is to be born female and speak up for your rights. The initial Karen meme was based on a racist white woman ordering a black couple out of her neighborhood, and they filmed it and that Karen was atrocious. Somehow, a Karen has devolved into: Any woman who refuses to get walked on, who speaks up when something is wrong or unjust. We are in the process of Devolving, intellectually at least. Edit: Dear Ms. Stevens, Praying for you, your family, and all who support you

[@adamf.585]

This is AmeriKKKa, This Happining Daily

[@johnchampion4218]

The police said she had a gun, but no one said different

[@boni_traxton9436]

I got mid Florida account This is news to me

[@aprilsno43012]

Are you going to continue banking with them?

[@boni_traxton9436]

@@aprilsno43012 well Auburndale or Davenport never gave me a problem. Bartow is problematic

[@catrinawilliamson5488]

Me too

[@DenofLeos]

Well there you have it, if a caucasian actually came out and apologized then, they knew they were wrong. So banking while black card consequences and repercussions make sense. Arm up, at least you will have a chance at some respect.

[@lc6636]

@@aprilsno43012Why not? She could have been out within hours. She chose to serve her time. People don't wear street clothes in jail.

[@deidrekemp8464]

That is crazy💌

[@beet5800]

What about her being belligerent? What did she do/say to earn that label? That part of story is missing.

[@randalllakeworth3134]

I FEEL SORRY FOR THAT OL LADY. GOT DANG . I HOPE SHE GETTA LOTA MONEY OUT OF THAT.

[@EmptyNestSoloMom]

Boycott!!!

[@dianethomas5052]

Close the bank down

[@franceseccher409]

Follow the money!

[@MsDrobertson522]

The residential ambulance chasing attorney is at it again!

[@tove236]

Yea, I'm sure he's not contacted by people who wants him to represent them. It's not like he's known or anything.

[@aprilsno43012]

Just think if blacks were treated with dignity, he wouldn't have any clients.

[@itrollthetrolls28]

@@aprilsno43012 Right.

[@mr2010GM]

​@@aprilsno43012 you just prove that blacks are not treated with dignity.

[@reggie3732]

wrong the racist mofos are at it again

[@writerconsidered]

Polk county huh? Where is good ol Grady Judd to explain the actions of HIS police officers on this?

[@craigbeatty8565]

A CU is not a bank.

[@georgiapuppie]

I hope she wins so much money that $600 will be nothing to her!! She'll be living in a mansion on easy street. And why come to her house to give her half of what she needed?

[@victorjohnson4971]

Don't bank in Tampa fl that's where they are located

[@My2CentsYall]

CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE now you see the results. They have the power to arrest you, the cops work for their interest not yours.

[@geneevans7885]

Florida people, they’re going for it.

[@aprilsno43012]

They had no intention of depositing her money. She was too loud so she got arrested.

[@middlepassage9256]

Descendants of the enslaved. This is what the people you love so much do to you. They go out of their way to mistreat you. Wake up.

[@richiephillips1541]

Judge: Your lawyer is WHO???? Ugh. OK, Case dismissed.

[@jnkewa]

I like Ben Crump and all the things he does but he looks like a black Charlie Brown 😂