‘This Is Totally Unacceptable’: Black Entrepreneur Says Ameris Bank Flagged and Froze Her Accounts After Teller Questioned Her Business

‘This Is Totally Unacceptable’: Black Entrepreneur Says Ameris Bank Flagged and Froze Her Accounts After Teller Questioned Her Business

A Black woman entrepreneur who went to renew a business debit card at Ameris Bank in Alpharetta, Georgia, walked out with a frozen bank account and a feeling she had just been racially profiled. Now she and her attorney are demanding that the bank make it right. In a 9-minute TikTok post, an exasperated Alexis Vaughn, who runs an insurance technology firm with her husband, Marvin Vaughn, explained that she went to the bank branch in Alpharetta t…