Local police in LA arrested television producer Charles Belk as he was walking from a restaurant, accusing him of “armed bank robbery and accessory to robbery of a Citibank.”
He was then cuffed and left by the side of the road for almost an hour. It took the police a total of 6hrs at the station to let him go, after finally reviewing CCTV that showed he was innocent.
Belk shared his story on Facebook describing the “life altering experience,” saying his only crime was fitting the description of a “tall, bald head, black male.”
WHEN YOU "FIT THE DESCRIPTION"!
It’s one of those things that you hear about, but never think it would happen to you.
On Friday afternoon, August 22nd around 5:20pm, while innocently walking by myself from a restaurant on Wilshire Blvd, to my car up LaCienega Blvd my freedom was taken from me by the Beverly Hills Police Department.
Within seconds, I was detained and told to sit on the curb of the very busy street, during rush hour traffic.
Within minutes, I was surrounded by 6 police cars, handcuffed very tightly, fully searched for weapons, and placed back on the curb.