Nightmare at a check-cashing store: Cops and cuffs for this?
Rodney Sampson, a black technical entrepreneur in Atlanta, was in a meeting when he got a phone call — one of the students enrolled in a program to teach low-income young people computer skills was in trouble.
The 19-year-old student, who was trying to cash a $500 money order given him to cover living expenses, was in police custody. A clerk at the check cashing store thought he was trying to pass a counterfeit money order.
Sampson rushed downtown to see whether he could keep the kid out of jail. And his series of Tweets called "A day in the life of a young black male engineering coding student" has gone viral.
Read the full story at today's Bill Torpy at Large column.
About the Author
Bill Torpy, who writes about metro Atlanta for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joined the newspaper in 1990.
