When we talk about mass incarceration and making sure black men are put in the system this is what we mean.
Do you believe if the cops detained the wrong white person they would still put him in jail and hit him with charges?
Family and witnesses are asking San Antonio police for answers tonight after a man was thrown in a police car and taken to jail. He was suspected of committing a crime and hauled off even after officers determined they had the wrong guy.
“That man in the green was jogging, the cops pulled him over and because he wouldn’t give him his name, he got handcuffed,” said San Antonio attorney Victor Maas while narrating a Facebook Live video.
Tuesday afternoon, officers were looking for a man accused of choking and punching a woman at an apartment complex on Woodstone Drive on the city’s northwest side.
The man they stopped was Mathias Ometu.
“Here he is just minding his business, and they threw him in the back of the cop car,” Mass told KENS 5. “And because he didn’t get in the back of the car – he’s like, ‘Why? I didn’t do anything wrong’ — they decided, ‘No, we’re going to beat the crap out of you and throw you in there regardless.”
According to SAPD, Ometu is not the man they were looking for; preliminary information on the incident says the victim came to the scene of the arrest and “advised officers that this was not the individual that assaulted her. Ometu was still arrested and taken to jail. He was charged with two felony counts of assault on a police officer.
Listen, even if they legitimately thought he was the guy they are looking for why charge him with anything when you know you got it wrong.
That is the part that the police have no answers for.
The answer is simple, it was a way to get a black man with no criminal record in the system.
Flip the page for video of the arrest and brutality from cops.