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He Looked Just Like You

That time I was a bank robbery suspect

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Aug 02, 2022
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Nineteen years ago, I had been out of work for several months and had been preparing an application at Prosper.com to borrow money and keep from being evicted. I was an unemployed black man depositing a check of charity bucks in the bank. Ten minutes later I was detained as a suspect in a bank robbery. Here's the story.

September 2003

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