A Georgia man won a legal battle against the federal goverment after the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized thousands of dollars from him at the Atlanta airport because he looked “suspicious.”

Brian Moore Jr. was about to catch a flight to Los Angeles in March 2021 when DEA agents stopped him after “witnessing what they believed to be suspicious behavior,” court documents state.

They questioned him and eventually obtained his consent to search his bag, which contained $8,500 in cash. They seized the cash and let Moore board his flight without charging him with a crime.

“They told me that I looked suspicious, and they were just going to take my money based off the fact that I look suspicious,” Moore told WSB-TV. “I hadn’t done anything wrong; I wasn’t doing anything wrong.”

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