Eric André was “racially profiled” as he travelled through Melbourne Airport. The 41-year-old comic, famed for ‘The Eric André Show’, said in an Instagram video he was cornered and subjected to a check by a sniffer dog after he had finished a 25-hour trip involving stops in Los Angeles, Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia for a shoot. He claimed in his clip he was “detained” and “pulled out of a line-up and put in a special line” in Melbourne, where he claims he was “sniffed thoroughly” by a dog.
Eric added: “Those dogs are pretty much ineffective. It’s one of the many times I’ve been racially profiled at the airport. “So this is a message for all Black, brown and Indigenous people travelling through Melbourne today, especially if you’re traveling through Qantas International by Terminal 2: Please be careful.
“They are searching Black, brown and Indigenous people. Please let me know if anybody knows the names of those officers with the dogs or what that program is. “If anybody has information on a discrimination Australian lawyer, I’m all ears.
” Eric has previously said he was racially profiled at the Atlanta Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport in 2021 and later took legal action over the incident. He also asked his followers if they could send him figures on how many people “of colour” officials at Melbourne airport had “put into this dog-sniffing line” when compared with the number of white passengers held back. Eric we.