You would think the police would be smarter than this.
It literally takes two seconds to ask for ID, if he doesn’t have ID or something backing up his claim that he doesn’t have a warrant out, then go ahead and arrest him.
He looks nothing like the guy who has the warrant. Glass half full at least he wasn’t shot.
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police officers wore body cameras as they approached a parked car with the intention of arresting Michael Clay, for whom they had a warrant.
In the car they found a man who they said fit the description of Clay.
When the young man inside refused to exit the car they eventually tased and cuffed him.
The only problem – the man in the car wasn’t Michael Clay.The white police officers had tased Patrick Mumford, a black man who did not have a warrant out for his arrest.
The officers ask Mumford’s name and he pauses, looking nervously at the officers around him before apprehensively saying, ‘Ok, Patrick’.
An officer asks his name again and this time Mumford hesitates, seeming confused, and says: ‘Uh…Patrick?’
Less than a minute elapses from the moment the officers approach Mumford to the time another officer is asked to tase the 24-year-old, who they still believe is Clay.
Mumford repeatedly asks for the officers to show him the warrant and they begin counting down.
‘Three, two’ and then the taser is deployed.Mumford cries in agony as volts of electricity ripple through his body.
It’s only when the officers finally have him cuffed and pressed against the hood of the police car do they check his ID and realize Mumford is not Clay.
After the fact the cops try to say they asked him for his ID, but not at any time did they actually do it.
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