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Woman to sue LAPD after spending nearly two weeks in jail due to wrongful arrest
KTLA ^ | Mary Beth McDade, Cameron Kiszla

Posted on 02/20/2022 6:53:02 PM PST by BenLurkin

The Los Angeles Police Department is facing scrutiny after a woman claims she was arrested in a case of mistaken identity and jailed for almost two weeks.

Bethany Farber said she was arrested at LAX when police believed she was a different woman with the same name.

She was headed to Mexico to see her brother and goddaughter, but instead, Farber was taken into custody by the TSA due to an arrest warrant for Bethany Farber in Texas.

“Immediately, all I could think was I’ve never been to Texas,” she said.

The no-bail warrant kept her locked up for 13 days...

“All this is done because LAPD failed to check the driver’s license, the birth date, the social security [number], even the booking photo of the other Bethany Farber. You can see there’s no relation. They look nothing alike,”

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


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KEYWORDS: california; lapd
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To: ChildOfThe60s
I believe you...I also think that some good hearted young men go into the police as well....

I'm telling you though, its the PENSIONS....

it keeps the incompetent's in place and union rules protect them and the abusive....

but we supposedly have this concept of "leadership".....

21 posted on 02/21/2022 1:42:19 AM PST by cherry (;)
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