NYPD Stopped, Frisked Breaking Bad Actor Giancarlo Esposito at Gunpoint

[GreenL420]

Buried inside a Wrap interview with Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito — AKA Los Pollos Hermanos proprietor Gus Fring — and unearthed by Gothamist is the story about the time Esposito was stopped and frisked by the NYPD. At gunpoint.

Days before the interview, Esposito was stopped and frisked by New York police while walking out of a theater where he was rehearsing a play. After several frantic minutes – with him and officers screaming, and their guns drawn – they realized they had the wrong guy. Their suspect had a hoodie, and Esposito was wearing a suit. When it was over, one of the officers recognized him, from his recent turn on ABC's "Once Upon a Time."

Though blacks and Hispanics are the overwhelming targets of NYPD stops (87% in 2011), Esposito says he's put the incident in his rearview.

"I refuse to walk around, carrying that sack of racist crap," he told the site. "Luis Buñuel made great movies. And in all his movies there's one old guy… who walks through the background with a big pillowcase, a sack of shit. That's your stuff. So when I'm healing, I'm healing my stuff."

[hobomotel]

Gus up to no good once again!

[The Diabolical Truth]

they stop and frisk mad people thecops here are worthless losers i got a ticket and had to goto court for having my bike on the sidewalk., dudes pulled me over in the street said i was riding on the sidewalk ... when i went to court i had o do community service and got a 6 month acd. dudes that were wreckless driving. disordely conduct tresspassing all got to go home scott free. the other day my friend gets tsoped bc he had his bike on sidewalk the cops are like were not gonna search youo cause youu seem like an upstanding citizen not realizing they stopped him cause of his bike so they have no right to search him. fucking assholes all cops in ny should lose their jobs.