When Cops Arrest The Wrong Person

cops have little to no room for error in their job having to deal with life or death situations daily but what happens when the cops mess up and accidentally arrest the wrong person get up put your hands on the car starting with the controversial case of Patrick Mumford Patrick was just getting back home when two officers confronted him claiming there were warrants out for his arrest what the cops didn't realize though is that the warrants were for a completely different man but this didn't seem to bother them what's your name I'm gonna ask you one

more time we probably need to talk Patrick is justifiably nervous here after suddenly being confronted by multiple police officers but still manages to give the cops his name however they decide that they don't believe him and instead of asking for an ID or trying to confirm his identity in any way they immediately decide to do this instead he just came back from his probation office come out get your hands out now you got three seconds hold on man three seconds you cannot reach get up put your hands on the car all right take me all

right you coming out or not yeah you better get out of the car all right let me know get out of the car get out of the car get out of the car move [Applause] it took just 38 seconds from the police making first Contact to giving the order to tase him according to the cops Patrick was given numerous reasonable opportunities to comply with officers but because of his resistance they were left with no choice but to stun him but even after being tased and detained the cops still aren't finished roughing Patrick up foreign the

cops search Patrick to try and find whatever he was reaching for assuming he was hiding a weapon of his own but predictably they find nothing other than his wallet this would end up being a blessing for Patrick though as inside his wallet the cops found his ID entity here's the deal dude how long I had a warrant I don't know if you got a warrant because you're not who I'm looking for but here's the deal when we ask you for ID because you look a lot like the person you give us ID and when you

start this whole fight nonsense dude all you had to do is give me this but the way you came up asked me out of nowhere remember the cops never once asked for Patrick's ID during the initial interaction in a later report the cops also stated that they were worried he was reaching for a weapon when he was shuffling back in the car so do you think they would have been okay with him reaching into his back pocket for his wallet he wasn't given any chance to correctly identify himself but now the cop is patronizing him

and saying he caught a case he didn't need to get and above all he's still being manhandled and forced onto the hood of their patrol vehicle is there someone here to stay here that looks like you think about it yeah tell them who who does he look a lot like he knows who it is Michael okay I know that now yes yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they look exactly oh wow yeah I'm looking at that picture okay are we wrong for the record this is the man they're looking for it's difficult to draw

even a single similarity in appearance but the cops apparently saw so many that they were comfortable with discharging a weapon at Patrick Patrick was initially charged with obstruction and violating probation and was fixed to lose his job and position at College thankfully though an internal investigation was launched into the four officers on the scene and it was concluded that they didn't follow proper procedure all four of the officers were suspended and Patrick was awarded with a settlement of one hundred thousand dollars but David Wiggins story doesn't have such a happy ending he was pulled over

and forced out of his vehicle with not so much as a second thought from the police but they failed to realize he too was the completely wrong guy pounds out the window take your right hand open the door on the ground did you just run for me sir Craig all right put your hands on your back David was put into cuffs and left on the ground at gunpoint after cops Miss took him for a suspect apparently the guy they were looking for had just fled them in a similar car with a similar license plate and

the cops pulled David over assuming it was the same vehicle it's an understandable mistake but realistically the cops should have double checked the plate as soon as they lost line of sight instead they decided to wait until David was on the ground handcuffed and at gunpoint before even attempting to confirm he was their guy give me that tag this ain't even him you're good not scary you got almost the same tax same car he must have passed you going through you good all right you have a good one okay I'm sorry about that David was

offered little other than an apology for the whole ordeal and was sent on his way after being correctly identified as the wrong guy but that wasn't enough for David and in July of 2023 decided to file a lawsuit against the city of Marion claiming gross negligence civil assaults battery and false imprisonment in the complaint David alleges that he was forced to endure three minutes handcuffed on the ground with a gun to his head not knowing if the next second would be his last he also notes that the apology was a mockery as of this video's

upload the case is still ongoing however when this cop in Florida was faced with the same situation he managed to show exactly how you should handle it trying to get a shot over this do you really think we want to be out here killing people in Volusia County was looking for a burglar when he stumbled upon Joseph Griffin a man who he said perfectly matched the description there is a burglary that happened you kind of fit the description let me just make really yeah let me just make sure that you're not in okay all right

um okay can I see your ID yeah you literally they said white tank top black shorts and they they said that you had a beard all right so I'm not saying it's you but it was a black male again not saying it to you buddy this cop is obviously aware of how difficult this very interaction can be especially if it turns out he's not who he's looking for so he approaches him politely and attempts to resolve the situation rather than escalate it bear with me okay because you fit the description I'm not saying you're guilty

but my Sergeant's telling me to detain you that's that's my sergeant do you mind turning it down here because for now I'm gonna detain you look you're not you're you're not under arrest I'm detaining it right now because you fit the description okay just saying cry for me okay buddy Joseph respectfully informs the cop that he's live streaming the interaction for his own safety before being detained he's also told that he's not under arrest and not being charged with anything they just don't want to give him the opportunity to run should he end up being

the suspect we're not saying it's you but you fit the description that's why I'm detaining you if it's not you we're going to cut you loose and you're free to go okay but I just want you to see through us why you know seven cop cars going hey everything going on it's just a little bit scary Yep this is a bird it was a burger it's a burger it's serious it's not a joke these guys that are getting ready to go home that's why you have so many the cops are doing their best to put

Joseph at ease but you can still imagine how stressful of a situation this would be he's doing a good job at staying respectful and composed but you can definitely still tell he's on edge we appreciate you being very Cooperative other people would just trying to get a shot over this seriously do you really think we want to be out here killing people do you honestly think that I'm a military police like I said brother I've been in the same boat after just 10 minutes of waiting they hear back from the witness who had just received

a picture of Joseph so good news for [Music] news for the clothes iron and all that doesn't fit the description it's called a show up so we got a picture um again he's gonna run it through make sure it's not you and from what it looks like buddy you'll be out of here okay a show up is a method of identification where a witness is presented with a single suspect and simply asked if that's their guy it's also worth mentioning that when looking for a suspect at large police will only receive a quick rundown of

the suspect's appearance adding extra details can create Confusion And even cause cops to let the perpetrators go if they miss something small this is why the description may seem vague and leads to false positives just like this one is starting to look like just got the picture finally from the winning the witness I get why they they went out with you for sure clearly not you but the clothing description everything matched so obviously these guys didn't have that video soon they just had a prescription to do that it's pretty good and once we finally got

the picture from the video surveillance and stuff it was like nah just like that Joseph was sent on his way back to his wife and daughter with no further action taken against anyone at the scene later that day the suspect was found and arrested both cases in this video so far have involved fairly innocuous crimes but that's all about to change in this next case where a man is falsely accused of robbing a bank and shooting a man in the head if you're not gonna tell me how to talk all right you shut your [

__ ] [ __ ] mouth in the early hours of the 23rd of April 2022 Grand Junction police received a frightening phone call her gunshots outside on Horizon Drive within a minute ago how many did you hear about four or five later that morning police received a second call from a nearby hospital making them aware of a patient who had walked in on their own with a gunshot wound to the Head it was determined that he was injured on Horizon Drive the same streets the gunshots were heard on at 3am a few hours later a

man named Aaron headed to the gas station to stock up on supplies for a Marksmanship event he was attending that day unfortunately for him the gas station was two located on Horizon Drive I went to a gas station this morning to grab some stuff and they were saying there was a shooting at three o'clock in the morning so they have they have traffic blocked going out on the 70. so we might want to look to see if that that's going to impact our route little did Aaron know traffic would be the least of his worries

that day after stopping at the gas station he heads back to his hotel to charge his phone on the way there he misses an exit so he uses his blinker to make a U-turn in front of the police blockade he Parks up for five minutes to charge his phone waits for his friend to show up in his car then stops at another gas station to wait for his other friends to turn up it's at this point Aaron is approached by police can I help you yeah you're trying to run down your window real quick no

what do you need I need you to identify yourself no what uh because all right you're leaving the area hold on okay well can you please roll down your window more so I can talk to you no what do you need all right well I need to identify you no you do not my name is Officer passage of the Grand Junction Police Department and this is my corporate right here this is corporal Church okay as well okay all right so I need you to identify yourself no that's not how it works I have rights as

an American citizen right what Aaron is saying is completely true and he is well within his rights to refuse to identify himself however that doesn't necessarily mean it's always the best idea regardless in this situation Aaron clearly wishes to exercise this right to which the cop isn't best pleased this is when things start to escalate quickly you do not have articulable suspicion that I've done I actually do what crime do you suspect me of committing possible attempted homicide you suspect me actual me of committing possible attempted homicide or your Cooperative Behavior right now does not

help your cause I've done absolutely nothing I pulled into a gap did you because my friends are here because we're going to and I they're Associated at this point Corporal Church heads over to Aaron's friends where he discovers that his name is indeed Aaron and that it matches up with the registration on the vehicle meanwhile officer posadas attempts to shed a little more light on why Aaron is being highlighted as a suspect right exactly even the area of a crime exactly with a similar colored vehicle similar nature to the description of what description of that

vehicle did you get I got a dark and colored sedan two people also stated that one of the suspects May Be of African-American descent with this information you can see how a cop would suspect Aaron he's a black male in a similar vehicle but things start to get much stranger as you dive deeper in the official report it was determined there were actually two suspects one white and one black and a more detailed report of the vehicle describes a car more similar to the one that Aaron's friends are driving it seems as though the cops

are ignoring every sign and targeting Aaron for no reason something that only becomes more obvious as they allow his friends to leave but keep Aaron at the scene my buddies they just left they were also in a dark sedan but you aren't [ __ ] stopping them and questioning them okay well I'm sorry nope sorry it's such a [ __ ] mouth I don't want to [ __ ] you're not gonna tell me how to talk all right you shut your [ __ ] [ __ ] mouth purple come up here it's not working he's

currently recording on his phone but uh highly uncooperative with me uh dreaming yelling at me told that his vehicle matches the description to give in blah blah blah he's very uh very upset right now well you have to ID yourself no I do not tell me why I have to ID well call it a state law says you do I want you to explain why I me as a person have to ID to you Colorado state law says you do the cops continue to ask for Aaron's name despite having already been told by his friends

and realizing it matches up with the name on the vehicle but perhaps the funniest part of this entire interaction is what happens when Aaron instead asks for the Sergeant's name what's your name what's your name yes you do you are a public servant I'm asking for your name no I do not okay so you wanted me to explain to you why I'm asking for you to identify yourself yes wait hold on perfect please please give me your name okay well no I won't give you that right now what do you mean you won't this that's

the most ridiculous thing I'm telling you it's important to note that the Grand Junction Police Department require police officers to identify themselves upon request but the sergeant later claimed he simply forgot Aaron was never made aware of why they targeted him so directly at the scene but in the official police report the cops say that the reason they suspected Aaron was because of the U-turn he made remember he simply missed his exit to the hotel and there the road ahead of him was closed leaving him with nowhere else to go they also alleged that he

didn't use a turn signal for the maneuver something that can easily be disproved by listening to Aaron's dash cam footage thank you as you'd expect an internal affairs investigation was launched into the officers at the scene and it was conducted that there was no wrongdoing and the cops conducted themselves perfectly Aaron has since launched his own lawsuit against the Grand Junction Police Department but as of this video's upload the investigation is still ongoing check out Aaron's Channel linked below for updates on the situation