Texas Police Tried To Arrest A Black Man In His Own Yard After Misidentifying Him

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This video of Texas police trying to arrest a black man has gone viral

on Twitter ― shows a deputy, who is white, holding Evans’ arm behind his back and repeatedly calling him by a different name, saying there is a warrant out for his arrest in Louisiana.

“For what?” Evans can be heard asking. “You don’t know my name, so how can you tell me I have a warrant in Louisiana?”“My name is not Quentin!” Evans insists. As the officer asks Evans to show him identification, Evans refuses.“No, I’m not gonna be the next [black person] you kill, no!” Evans says, later adding: “I’m not gonna let you put me in handcuffs … You’re in my yard, on my property.”

“Sir, I don’t want you touching me while you’re shaking, you need to step back and calm down,” Evans adds. Another officer later pulls up in a car and gets the first officer’s phone out of his vehicle, and they show Evans a picture of the man they’re allegedly looking for.“No, that don’t look like me!” Evans responds. In his, Evans explains that the officer had shown him a photo of a black man with dreadlocks who appeared to be in his 50s.Eventually, the officer says he’ll be filing a report and both officers leave.

‘You don’t know my name, so how can you tell me I have an open warrant?’ — This officer tried to arrest a Black father in front of his own home after incorrectly identifying him as a suspected criminal from another state

 

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Yup police are human beings that susceptible to making errors. That’s not what this article is about is it Sarah. Keep pushing that narrative Endthehuffpost

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