ATLANTA — A lawsuit filed by comedian Eric André alleging racial profiling during search at Atlanta's airport in 2021 has been revived by a federal appeals court.

The lawsuit, filed back in 2022, accused Clayton County Police of subjecting André to a "dehumanizing and demoralizing" search on the jet bridge as he was about to board a plane, part of what the department contended was a practice meant to deter drug trafficking.

Actor Clayton English, the other plaintiff in the lawsuit, claimed a similar experience in 2020.

The Associated Press reported in 2022 that the lawsuit claimed the searches rarely uncovered drugs or resulted in criminal charges, but did result in cash seizures providing a "financial windfall" for the police department.

The department contended all such stops w

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