<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="4379717" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="eric-andre">Eric Andre</keyword> says he was "racially profiled" while at Atlanta Airport on Wednesday. </li><li>He tweeted he was stopped by plainclothes <keyword id="11098" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="police">police</keyword> officers asking to search his luggage for drugs.</li><li>The county police department said in a statement that it was a "consensual encounter."</li></ul><p>Eric Andre says he was "racially profiled" at the Atlanta Airport by two ununiformed police officers.</p><p>The comedian <a href="https://twitter.com/ericandre/status/1384943592712585219">tweeted</a> on Wednesday that the officers stopped him as he was about to board a flight from the <keyword id="6383835" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="delta">Delta</keyword> Terminal at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, adding that <a href="https://twitter.com/ericandre/status/1384948210649780227">he was the only person of color in the line</a>.</p><p>"They stopped me on the way down the bridge to the plane for a 'random' search and asked they could search me for drugs. I told them no. Be careful," <a href="https://twitter.com/ericandre/status/1384943592712585219">Andre tweeted</a>.</p><p>In a follow-up tweet, Andre said while the police let him board the plane and <a href="https://twitter.com/ericandre/status/1384946743981260802">he was "fine now,"</a> he wanted to report the incident.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Eric Andre  (@ericandre) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1384954525233078272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2021</a></blockquote><p>Andre also tweeted at the Mayor of Atlanta, <keyword id="9114358" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="keisha-bottoms">Keisha Bottoms</keyword>, on Wednesday asking for help.</p><p>Bottoms responded to Andre right away, writing that she was "sorry" to hear about his experience and was working to find out which agency was involved.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Keisha Lance Bottoms  (@KeishaBottoms) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1384971871117094917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2021</a></blockquote><h2>The Atlanta Police Department said they had no involvement in the airport incident in a statement shared on Twitter</h2><p>Although Andre initially speculated that he might have been stopped by officers from the <a href="https://twitter.com/ericandre/status/1384953922138394629">Atlanta Police Department</a> (APD) or the <a href="https://twitter.com/ericandre/status/1384966035049263107">Drug Enforcement Administration</a> (DEA), the police department of Clayton County, where the airport is located, confirmed its officers were the ones who had interacted with Andre at the airport.</p><p>A preliminary statement from Clayton County Police Department <a href="https://twitter.com/ZacOnTV/status/1385029830333378560">shared on social media on Wednesday</a> added that the DEA and the APD were not involved in what they described as a "consensual encounter."</p><p>In its <a href="https://twitter.com/Atlanta_Police/status/1384982998349754373/photo/1">own separate statement</a>, APD said that "multiple law enforcement agencies" operate within the airport.</p><p>"Members of APD's Airport Drug Interdiction Unit do not randomly approach travelers and ask to search them," the statement read.</p><p>"Searches are conducted based on some type of evidence or indication of criminal activity," it added.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Atlanta Police Department  (@Atlanta_Police) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1384982998349754373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2021</a></blockquote><h2>The police department whose officers were involved told Insider such interactions 'occur frequently'</h2><p>In a longer statement shared with Insider via email on Thursday, a representative for the Clayton County Police Department said that the whole exchange between Andre and the officers "lasted for approximately 2 to 3 minutes, and he was able to make his normally scheduled flight on time."</p><p>The statement said that Andre (who they described as "cordial, personable and pleasant to speak with") had consented to have his luggage searched and shared his travel plans with the officers, who ultimately chose not to go through the bags.</p><p>"I would like to reiterate that Mr. Andre was never placed in handcuffs or detained at any point during their interaction," the statement said, in part.</p><p>"Our preliminary findings have revealed that Mr. Andre was not racially profiled," it continued.</p><p>Andre tweeted that it was "misinformation" that he had consented to have his bags searched, in response to the earlier version of the statement shared <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ClaytonCountyPD">on the Clayton County PD's Facebook page on Wednesday</a>, adding that the police department "violated my rights."</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Eric Andre  (@ericandre) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1385041171387273216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Eric Andre  (@ericandre) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1385043811080949765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote><p>"I really hope that the @ClaytonCountyPD stop their racial profiling tactics at @ATLairport. I wish they owned up to it instead of creating more lies about what happened," Andre tweeted on Thursday morning. "They're not creating a safer environment - just using the War on Drugs as an excuse to harass and oppress POC."</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Eric Andre  (@ericandre) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1385239954578571266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote>

Eric Andre says he was 'racially profiled' at the Atlanta Airport by two plainclothes police officers

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Eric André and Emily Ratajkowski posed nude in photos shared on André's Instagram Tuesday.</li><li>In the pictures, the comedian reclines on a velvet couch, while the model is reflected in a mirror.</li></ul><p>Eric André shared several risqué photos of himself and Emily Ratajkowski to Instagram on Tuesday in honor of Valentine's Day. </p><p>In the photos, André reclines on a velvet couch in the nude (with a heart emoji covering his penis) while holding a glass of red wine. And in a mirror behind the couch, Ratajkowski (who appears to only be wearing a red lace bra) can be seen snapping the pictures with her phone. </p><p>"Happy Valentine's Day," the comedian captioned the post, along with several more heart emojis. </p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CopeQ1kuv_x/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CopeQ1kuv_x/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank"> <div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; 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overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CopeQ1kuv_x/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Eric Andre (@ericfuckingandre)</a></p></div></blockquote> <p>Even though Ratajkowski wasn't tagged in the post, several eagle-eyed commenters, including music producer Benny Blanco, correctly identified the model.</p><p>In one comment, Blanco wrote: "wait is that @emrata in the back ?" And in another, Blanco jokingly told André to "remove the arrow or delete this."  </p><div type="image" title="A screenshot of Benny Blanco's comments on Eric André's February 14 Instagram post." height="474" width="632" msid="97929898" hostid="261" sizebytes="15460"></div><p>André and Ratajkowski first <a href="https://people.com/style/emily-ratajkowski-spotted-with-comedian-eric-andre-nyc-date-night-after-pete-davidson-split/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sparked romance rumors earlier this year</a>, after they were spotted getting lunch together in January, and later vacationing in the Cayman Islands. </p><p>More recently, the two were <a href="https://people.com/style/emily-ratajkowski-eric-andre-all-smiles-step-out-together-again-new-york-city/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photographed dining at the Italian restaurant</a> Via Carota in New York City on Saturday. </p><p>Ratajkowski was previously married for four years to film producer Sebastian Bear-McClard, with whom she <a href="https://www.insider.com/emily-ratajkowski-naked-baby-bump-pregnancy-video-lena-dunham-vogue-2020-10">shares a son, Sylvester</a>. She was previously romantically linked to "Saturday Night Live" star Pete Davidson. </p>

Eric André and Emily Ratajkowski posed nude in photos on the comedian's Instagram page in honor of Valentine's Day

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Eric André and Chet Hanks are fighting on social media.</li><li>It comes after André called Hanks "emotionally disturbed" in a recent interview with Rolling Stone.</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/eric-andre-suing-clayton-county-police-racial-profiling-airport-search-2022-10">Eric André</a> and Chet Hanks are fighting on social media after the comedian called Hanks "emotionally disturbed" in a recent interview.</p><p><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/eric-andre-whippets-interview-emily-ratajkowski-nude-instagram-michael-b-jordan-penis-1234694946/">Speaking with Rolling Stone in an interview published on Tuesday,</a> André recalled how <a href="https://www.insider.com/tom-hanks-son-chet-famous-parents-animosity-2022-2">Hanks, son of legendary actor Tom Hanks,</a> "broke" the show's crew while filming an episode of season six of "The Eric André Show," which premieres on June 4.</p><p>"He stole a motorcycle and rode it around," said André of Hanks. "He almost knocked a bunch of grips and gaffers off their ladders. It was very dangerous. He tried to prank us back, but we edited out all his bullshit."</p><p>"He's not well. How did Colin Hanks come out so good and Chet Hanks come out so bad?" he added.</p><p>Firing back at André on Wednesday, Hanks tagged the 39-year-old comedian in an Instagram story calling him a "puss."</p><p>Hanks also shared a <a href="https://twitter.com/themilobennett/status/1635847558848471042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selfie-style video</a> in which he admitted to riding around on a motorcycle on the set and having "popped a little wheelie," but said that he was just trying to "match [the] energy" of the "weird, outlandish" show.</p><div type="image" title="Chet Hanks." height="1500" width="2000" msid="98699184" hostid="261" sizebytes="42222"></div><p>"I was just playing along with your schtick, dude," Hanks said, addressing André, reports <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/03/15/chet-hanks-responds-to-eric-andre-calling-him-disturbed/">Page Six</a>. "But it is what it is. Some people are just straight bitches. Apparently Eric André is one."</p><p>André soon replied to Hanks with an Instagram story of his own.</p><p>"Everything Chet Hanks just said about me is a fucking, bold-faced lie. He's a fucking liar," said André. "And I dare him to take a fucking DNA test and prove that Tom Hanks is his fucking father."</p><div type="image" title="Eric Andre." height="1500" width="2000" msid="98699188" hostid="261" sizebytes="48638"></div><p>While André isn't a fan of Hanks, one person the "Jackass Forever" star has certainly been seeing eye-to-eye with is model Emily Ratajkowski.</p><p>André and Ratajkowski first sparked romance rumors after <a href="https://people.com/style/emily-ratajkowski-spotted-with-comedian-eric-andre-nyc-date-night-after-pete-davidson-split/">getting lunch together</a> in January, and later vacationing in the Cayman Islands.  </p><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/eric-andre-emily-ratajkowski-nude-photos-instagram-2023-2">On Valentine's Day, they then posed nude in a photo shared on André's Instagram.</a></p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CopeQ1kuv_x/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; 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"I think the think pieces and the mythology are more interesting than the reality."</p><p>On the nude photo, he said: "Emily popped up and took that picture. I was <em>really</em> in the moment: I was drinking wine, she started dying laughing, and she was like, 'I have to take a picture of this.' She took the picture, we both started cracking up, and she was like, 'This is iconic' — she kept saying 'iconic.'"</p><p>"We both agreed this was a beautiful image that we had to share with the world," André added.</p>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Over the last month and a half, the musician Ye has sparked backlash for a flurry of incidents.</li><li>Insider spoke with Ian Slater, a 28-year-old honorary moderator of the r/Kanye Reddit forum.</li></ul><p>Kanye West's biggest fans are likely accustomed to their idol's incendiary public actions. The rapper has courted controversy for years, but the last month's <a href="https://www.insider.com/kanye-west-buys-parler-free-speech-social-media-platform-conspiracies-2022-10">flurry of incidents</a> — from falsely claiming <a href="https://www.insider.com/george-floyds-family-online-hate-kanye-west-comments-lawyers-2022-10">George Floyd died of fentanyl</a> to his <a href="https://www.insider.com/ye-locked-out-twitter-account-following-antisemitic-comments-report-2022-10">multiple antisemitic rants</a> — was an especially dramatic test.</p><p>Many supporters have spoken out against West, who recently legally changed his name to Ye. But some ardent fans are sticking by him.</p><p>A central hub for news and debate about Ye's antics is the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Kanye">Reddit page for his biggest supporters</a>, r/Kanye, which has over 700,000 members. Ye's recent controversies have led to heated dissension and upheaval in the subreddit as some horrified fans have grappled with their inspiration's sharp turn toward conspiracy theories and antisemitism.</p><div type="image" title="Kanye West" height="1606" width="2142" msid="95565096" hostid="261" sizebytes="154892"></div><p>October was particularly tumultuous for the subreddit. Users litigated the morals of Ye's rhetoric (and of remaining a supporter) in real-time as the musician's rants inspired real-world hate, like a group <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/24/us/los-angeles-demonstrators-kanye-west-antisemitic-remarks">hanging antisemitic banners</a> over an LA freeway.</p><h2><strong>'The world as we know it is gone,' says moderator of r/Kanye</strong></h2><p>Insider spoke to Ian Slater, a 28-year-old moderator of r/Kanye who was once a huge fan but said he isn't anymore. (He said he has converted to a "Charli XCX guy" after Ye's descent into conspiracy theories.)</p><p>Slater is also a producer and staff member of Ethan Klein's H3 podcast, which is where he said the r/Kanye Reddit team found him, because he often spoke about Ye.</p><p>Slater is an honorary moderator, which means he has access to some tools — removing and approving new posts — but he doesn't exercise them. The other moderators granted him the prestigious status as a gift because he was a vocal Ye fan back in the end of the 2010s, he said.</p><p>Slater described diehard fans as citizens "with no country."</p><p>"The world as we know it is gone," he said of the Ye subreddit.</p><div type="image" title="Ye top posts on Reddit page" height="782" width="1043" msid="95565098" hostid="261" sizebytes="49364"></div><p>The Ye fanbase is already passionate, but these forum posters sharing memes and engaging in discourse about the artist are among the most faithful.</p><p>Slater said many fans-turned-critics have left the forum and taken refuge in the subreddit for Frank Ocean, a much more positive space.</p><p>For those who remain posting and commenting on r/Kanye, Slater said, "they walk amongst this valley of ash and fire with eyes that do not see."</p><p>The page has mostly condemned Ye's antisemitism. The second most popular post of the last month is a screenshot of the comedian Eric Andre denouncing Ye, with over 26,000 upvotes. Other <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Kanye/comments/yjhylh/hopefully_this_will_help_you_understand_why_yes/">popular threads</a> provide detailed explanations of why Ye's comments were antisemitic.</p><div type="image" title="Kanye West reddit" height="754" width="1005" msid="95565099" hostid="261" sizebytes="109016"></div><p>Slater said "it seems like the main mods are very active in removing the problematic" content, but harmful content is spreading in the forum.</p><p>"It's a bloodbath out here," Slater said.</p><p>He said some "users are shitposting their way to an early ban grave," while longtime accounts with tons of karma — Reddit's point system — are also being banned. Slater didn't know the exact number of users banned recently or whether the subreddit has seen an uptick in suspensions since Ye's spree of public incidents, though he described it as a volatile moment.</p><h2>Slater said the subreddit's 'Controversial' section is hellish</h2><p>Slater compared the subreddit's "Controversial" section to "Dante Inferno's trip to the 7th circle." (The controversial tab organizes posts by those that have similar numbers of upvotes and downvotes, suggesting readers are conflicted.)</p><p>The most "controversial" post of the last month is a screenshot of a Ye song and the text <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Kanye/comments/yhpoo4/are_you_still_a_fan_ye_forever/">"YE FOREVER"</a> with lots of fire emojis. On Wednesday, the post's score was at net zero with almost 300 comments.</p><p>Other controversial threads accuse fellow posters of not being true Ye fans. Moderators appear to have deleted many of the comments with antisemitic stereotypes and rhetoric. <a href="https://www.unddit.com/r/Kanye/comments/yjhylh/hopefully_this_will_help_you_understand_why_yes/">Some can still</a> be viewed using Unddit — a third-party tool that shows removed comments.</p><p>Other controversial posts include fans saying they're "done" with Ye and his music, including a thread of someone saying they tossed their Yeezy shoes in the garbage.</p><p>When asked for his stance on Ye's antisemitism and other controversies, Slater said he didn't support Ye's recent actions and was done acting as a "full-time publicist" for the musician, and was resigning as a moderator.</p>

A moderator of one of the biggest Kanye West internet forums says the page has been a 'bloodbath' since the rapper's descent into antisemitism and conspiracy theories

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Comedians Eric André and Clayton English are suing the Clayton County Police Department.</li><li>They argue they were victims of "racial profiling" after they were searched at an Atlanta airport.</li></ul><p>Comedians Eric André and Clayton English filed <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23165626-eric-andre-suit-clayton-county?responsive=1&amp;title=1">a lawsuit against the Clayton County Police Department</a> on Tuesday, October 11, after they said they were subjected to drug searches at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia.</p><p>André and English, both of whom are Black, argue in the suit that their constitutional rights were violated through "racial profiling and coercive stops."  </p><p>"This was not my first experience with racial profiling. It wasn't even my first experience with racial profiling in an airport," <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/eric-andre-police-stopped-me-for-flying-while-black-im-suing-heres-why?ref=home">André wrote in a recent opinion column for The Daily Beast</a>. "But it was the most blatant. And the encounter has stuck with me ever since."</p><p>According to the suit, André was selected for a drug search by plainclothes officers on April 21, 2021, while walking on the jet bridge — the pathway to the airplane that passengers walk through after going through Transportation Security Administration screening and gate check — for his flight to Los Angeles.</p><p>Similarly, English said he was stopped at the jet bridge while boarding a flight to Los Angeles by two police officers on October 30, 2020. Neither was charged with a crime and the comedians were free to board their flights after several minutes of questioning.</p><p>A Clayton County Police Department public information officer declined to comment on pending litigation. </p><p>The suit argues that, in both instances, the comedians were "unconstitutionally singled out because of their race" and that neither men "committed any crime nor engaged in any suspicious activity."</p><p>"Mr. André did not see any other Black passengers boarding with this group," the suit claims. In both cases, the suit described the experiences as "humiliating."</p><p>During the five-minute encounter, when the officers asked a series of questions about whether he was carrying certain drugs, André wrote in The Daily Beast that (white) passengers "were forced to shimmy around me."</p><p>"They gawked while doing so — after all, I must have done <em>something</em> to deserve all the police attention. I boarded the plane utterly humiliated, and angry," he wrote.</p><p>One officer told André that the search was "random" and the questions were "protocol," the lawsuit stated. Of the encounters, André and English said they believed they were not allowed to say no to the stop.</p><p>The lawsuit also scrutinizes this specific police protocol, which is referenced in the court documents as the "jet bridge interdiction program."</p><p>It argues that the searches are anything but "consensual encounters" or "random" and that the program is designed to be "coercive" and disproportionately targets Black passengers.</p><p>According to the suit, "armed CCPD officers and Clayton County District Attorney's Office ... investigators" wait in jet bridges to "selectively intercept passengers, take their boarding passes and identifications, interrogate them before they board their flights, and search their carry-on luggage, all in the name of combating drug trafficking."</p><p>Between August 30, 2020, to April 30, 2021, a timeframe that covers the searches of the comedians, Clayton County Police Department records show that 402 jet bridge stops were conducted and resulted in three seizures, the lawsuit states.</p><p>"Roughly 10 grams (less than the weight of one AAA alkaline battery) of drugs from one passenger, 26 grams (the weight of about 4 grapes) of 'suspected THC gummies' from another, and 6 prescription pills (for which no valid prescription allegedly existed) from a third," the lawsuit said. "Only two of the passengers (those who possessed the roughly 10 grams of drugs and the pills) were charged with a crime."</p><p>During the same time period, the police department recorded the race of passengers for 378 stops, per the lawsuit. Of those stops, about 56% of passengers were Black and 68% were people of color.</p><p>André previously <a href="https://twitter.com/ericandre/status/1385043811080949765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1385043811080949765%7Ctwgr%5Ec2617082e4afd0f12ec07ed188789b85906bed42%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fentertainment-arts%2Fstory%2F2021-04-22%2Feric-andre-alleges-racially-profiled-atlanta-airport">wrote about the experience on Twitter last year</a> and described the encounter as harassment.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Eric Andre (@ericandre) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1385043811080949765">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote><p>In a statement last year, Clayton County Police said "this type of interaction occurs frequently during our officers' course of duties and is supported by Georgia Law and the US Constitution."</p><p>Officer Aubriel Stroud also told a local news outlet that André was never detained and that "Mr. Andre agreed to speak with our officers, and the conversation was pleasant."</p><p>André and English have sought representation in their case from two Georgia lawyers and attorneys from the Policing Project at the New York University School of Law.</p><p>"Our mission is assuring policing is guided on the front end by policies and protocols that narrow discretion," Barry Friedman, an attorney and professor at the university, wrote to Insider. "Without clear policy, preferably with democratic imprimatur, things go wrong. Unguided discretion leads to discrimination, which is what we have here. Our goal is to see that constitutional law governing policing not tolerate the sort of unjustified seizures and racial discrimination we have in Mr. André's and Mr. Clayton's case."</p>

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