*Comedian Eric André is speaking out about being detained and racially profiled at the Melbourne Airport in Australia.
André posted an Instagram reel on Sunday (August 18) expressing his frustration over the incident, Complex reports.
“I got pulled out of a lineup and put in a special line in Melbourne where I was sniffed thoroughly by a dog,” he said in the video.
“It’s one of the many times I’ve been racially profiled at the airport,” André continued. “So this is a message for all Black, brown and Indigenous people traveling through Melbourne today, especially if you’re traveling Qantas International by Terminal 2, please be careful. They are searching Black, brown and Indigenous people.”
He then requested information on an Australian lawyer who could assist with his discrimination case.
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“I do not feel safe in the Melbourne Airport. I do not want to be humiliated or racially discriminated against anymore at these airports,” André said. “I don’t want to cut my hair and wear a three-piece suit so that I’m treated like a first-class citizen.”
André noted that he “shouldn’t be made to feel that I am unaccepted by entering a country.”
“Shame on the people at the Melbourne Airport that have this cockamamie procedure,” he added.
André and comedian Clayton English sued the Clayton County Police Department in 2022, alleging racial profiling by plainclothes officers at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. The case was dismissed, but André and English have appealed the decision, Complex reports.
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