[DaveA37]

Time for a lawsuit. They least his accusers could do is get his job back, pay his bills and clear his name, unfortunately, that will not happen. I’d still sue them for a hell of a lot of money.

[luvbach1]

Prudent he complied with the illegal arrest, thus avoiding possible tasing, beating, or death.

[mabarker1]

This will NEVER be removed from His record. This Man is screwed for life.

STUPID F’ING Pigs!!!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Nowadays, the only difference between most LEOs and a common street gang is state sponsorship and immunity from prosecution.

[immadashell]

Suing the government is not easy. These rascals should go to jail, but that will never happen.

[driftdiver]

He had to prove his innocence despite having a different birthdate, middle name, and no evidence.

[fwdude]

Something smells in this story. It took him 10 days, WITH a lawyer, to prove that the police had the wrong guy?!

If nothing else, he is guilty of stupid.

[cripplecreek]

I was arrested for non payment of child support once and don’t have any kids. It was a clerical error and I didn’t start screeching like a 1960s hippie about the “pigs”.

[greene66]

You’d see this sort of thing happen dozens of times in old 1930s/40s b-movies. Not exactly something new under the sun. But you would think with all the advanced technology and communication of our modern era, such mistakes would be almost impossible nowadays.

[Sherman Logan]

Moral of the story: Don't have a common name.

John Smiths are in serious trouble.

I'm highly unlikely to be arrested, mistaken for someone with the same name.

[fwdude]

The article is from a cop-hating website. Gee, I wonder what slant they are going to put on this?

[W.Lee]

I was in court one Monday morning back in 1972 or so to deal with a traffic ticket. The case before mine involved a black man who had been awakened and arrested in his home at 6:30am the Saturday before. Alexandria Va. police had a warrant and took him to jail where he sat till Monday. When the judge asked him if he was “John James Jones” (don’t remember the exact name) he said no your honor, I am John Thomas Jones. The judge looked at the warrant, then at him. The judge said I see you’re not 6’2” (he was short), you aren’t 250lbs (he was skinny), and you aren’t 60 years old (he was in his 20s). The judge then signed a paper and gave it to him and said, “Here, you’ll need this when you sue the city.”

[longtermmemmory]

it is very easy to go from mistake to “slap” arrest. (ala slap suits)

ALL this cases should be subject to attorney disbarment hearings on the prosecutors.

it is too easy to nifong.

[Vendome]

So when they entered his finger prints into IAFIS nothing came back that would exclude him as a suspect or even a criminal?

Cha Ching!

[bamahead]

Mr. Thompson’s false arrest caused him to rack up bills, face threats of eviction from his home, and lose his job after 6 years of employment.



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[defconw]

"And this represents just one of countless botched arrests and injustices that have been caused by the War on Drugs."

This line fried me! How about not hiring retards to work in Government? 10 days to figure out they had the wrong guy? Really? What about the retards kicking in the wrong door because they can't read the numbers on the house. Or shooting a dog on the inside of house when answering a burglar alarm. Look in the window, the dog is NOT barking. SO duh! No one is in the house. But by all means lets kick the door down and kill a dog or person who is trying to defend their property.

Rant off.

[Still Thinking]

CHESTERTON, IN — An innocent man was arrested in an early morning raid and jailed for 10 days because he had the same first and last name as a drug suspect. The ordeal caused him to lose his job, rack up bills, and nearly get evicted from his home.

Sounds like he needs to end up owning him a police department of his very own.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Although Thompson’s identity matched the signed warrant — down to the date of birth and middle initial — the data on the warrant had been incorrectly obtained. The intended suspect was Steven P. Thompson, who is three years younger and the same race...

They doctored the warrant data.