Atlanta media mogul Tyler Perry says he was pulled over by the Atlanta Police Department because he was black.

Now the police department says there is an open investigation into the traffic stop of the actor/director.

Perry owns a booming movie studio in southwest Atlanta on Greenbriar Parkway. A few weeks ago, Perry said he was pulled over after leaving his studios. Perry said things got tense after the officer walked to his car and asked why he was making an illegal left turn.

"Before I could reply, he heard the second officer banging on a passenger window because it was tinted,” Perry wrote on his Facebook page, adding the second officer asked him, "Why do you think someone is following you? What is wrong with you?"

Perry said the two cops continued to harass him until a third officer, who is black, arrived at the scene. Perry claims the first officers changed their tune and apologized.

The Atlanta police department released a statement to Channel 2 Action News.

"The Atlanta Police Department has confirmed that two officers recently encountered Mr. Tyler Perry during a traffic stop. Mr. Perry's concerns, as recently expressed by him publicly, will be the basis for referral of the matter to the department's Office of Professional Standards. OPS has opened an investigation to determine if Mr. Perry's claims can be substantiated, and whether any departmental policies or procedures were violated during the stop."

Police sources told Channel 2 the officers are part of a task force and were in the area looking for a stolen car like the one Perry was driving, and once he made the illegal turn, which Perry admits to making, they had cause to pull him over.