“Hey, Wrong Car!” exclaims the narrator. Before holding an innocent man at gunpoint and cuffing him, cops admit they were wrong.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) is under fire after a TikTok video seems to show police holding a guy at gunpoint and then admitting to one another that they had the incorrect suspect before beating him with a dangerous weapon and briefly kidnapping him. The films were posted in June by @lastcall702, a TikTok user. A similar scenario played out in a sequence of two TikTok videos in which at least six LVMPD squad vehicles and at least seven cops arrived on a traffic stop situation that was already developing. Officers started shouting orders to the driver from behind the open doors of their cars, weapons drawn and aimed in the direction of the automobile. He was told to toss his keys out the window, unbuckle his seatbelt, and exit the car with his back to the armed group who surrounded him.
Around the same time, the driver was obeying the police' instructions, additional officers shouted from behind the gun-wielding ones, "Hey! It's the wrong vehicle. “Wrong car.” The video's narrator couldn't believe what he'd just heard and said, "These mothers**kers got the incorrect vehicle!" The African American man, who was already standing upright in the street only feet away from a posse with their weapons focused on his back and chest, was agitated. “You have weapons on me, what the f**k do you mean to settle down?” The driver was understandably enraged. Of course, police, like most people, are reluctant to acknowledge when they have made a mistake. So, instead of approaching the guy and saying they had the wrong vehicle and the wrong man, they proceeded with the real detention by putting handcuffs on him.
The large-framed guy was driving a U-haul daily rental van, and the police couldn't help but examine it before reportedly scolding the driver and demanding their own apologies. Unilad news media reports: They quickly arrest him as police examine his van, even knowing it isn't the correct vehicle, before seeming to ask him to apologize to them in exchange for them apologizing for their mistake. ‘Please and thank you, just let me out of these shackles and let me go about my day,' he pleads before being released free.
It comes as no surprise that we are seeing another instance of LVMPD officers being excessively aggressive. One might argue those police officers should be allowed to determine whether or not they should stop a U-Haul rental truck. Sadly for the driver, he was not arrested. If he had been arrested, he might have filed a lawsuit for illegal detention and received a sizable monetary award. Nonetheless, he may be entitled to sue for violation of his constitutional rights at gunpoint. If you or someone you know can identify this driver, we'd want to interview him for his first-hand account. Please contact the PBWW website through our website, www.policebrutalityworldwidechannel.com.
Equally frustrating as not knowing the identity of the driver is being fully aware, thanks to our many articles on the topic of police engaged in mistaken identification, that this occurs every day in the United States of America. Nothing says freedom like being pulled over by a half-dozen police vehicles manned by officers with weapons drawn screaming commands to obey or die in America.
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