A San Diego police department is facing a lawsuit after jailing a man for a month based on a Flock camera alert that cops allegedly should have known, based on the timestamp, did not depict the car that they were looking for.
Last November, Hugo Parra was arrested on felony charges after San Diego police relied on Flock data and a witness statement to wrongly connect him to an attempted carjacking at gunpoint, the Times of San Diego reported. Cops were looking for a red Alfa Romeo car with tinted windows and a man wearing a gray hoodie, and Parra happened to be wearing a white hoodie while riding in a friend’s car that roughly matched the vehicle description.
Although Flock cameras can capture license plate data, cops did not have even a partial plate to help them verify if the car was involved in a violent crime. But the Flock data cops used to justify the arrest actually showed that Parra was five miles away at the time of the crime, Parra’s attorney, Alex Coolman, told the Times of San Diego. Rather than arrest him, cops could have used that data, as well as Parra’s cellphone location data, to corroborate Parra’s statement that he was innocent, Coolman said.
Here’s a legal tip you likely don’t hear everyday.
Wear clothing worn by a smaller percent. This could reduce the chance of false accusations if you truly are innocent. I mean in this specific case it probally could.
Nah that’s not how cops work, it would go like this.
“The suspect was wearing blue jeans and a black sweatshirt”
“The guy we have in custody is wearing a teal tee and a kilt”
“Exactly, that is what a person would change into to try and get away”
I have watched so many body cam videos that I can promise this is how it would go.
In most cases they pick the guy who they think did it and then work on proving it.
There is a video where the cops interegate a mentally ill man for hours “because he murdered his father” when he asks if his dog is ok they tell him, she is now but she will have to be put down if you don’t help us on this case" I think he ends up sorta confessing, so the cops call his sister, like he had begged them to do in the beginning, the father was safe and sound at sisters house.
For all the people who will read this and say “bullshit” I found the video for you.
https://youtu.be/EiCMxukn0yQ
The fucking thing that keeps me on my meds is the fear of our leagal system.
That’s not going to help when youre dealing with useless cops who don’t like you.
Something like a gimp suit?
staying in the basement probably provides an additional bonuses for not being identified based on similarities.