The mistaken identity always has me spooked - so I’m always real careful. A brother of a gal I knew back in college got in a LOT of trouble with a buddy. They were pulled over and the cops thought they were killers, theives or something pretty bad.
The cops had them out of the car - roughing them up to get their hands on the trunk, etc. The one kid was resisting - probably out of confusion and such. The cop started hitting him with his baton pretty bad.
That is when the other kid got the gun out of the holster of the other cop and held it on them to get him to stop beating his buddy. But about the same time the backup came. The kid dropped the gun, and the other kid calmed down.
I don’t remember all of the details, but they spent some time in jail - but not as much as I thought they would have for pulling a gun on a cop. Although I think the dad of the kid was a judge in another state and thought that might have played a part.
My first run in with that issue was pretty scary, too: The Latern at Ohio State ran a picture of a campus area rapist. A friend joked that it looked like me. I didn’t think it was so funny. The saving fact was he was 5’8”, while I was 6’2”. Still a couple nervous days til he caught caught...