Cop pulls family a 1.5 month old baby out of their car at gunpoint because he mistyped their plate in the computer.
A vehicle, carrying a driver, his girlfriend, and their 1.5-month-old infant, was flagged as stolen out of Little Rock. Officers ordered the driver out with his hands up and immediately placed him in handcuffs and into his car. As backup arrived guns were drawn as they ordered his wife out of the car as well at gunpoint.
The issue? The vehicle wasn’t stolen at all. The driver’s plate read APX 55X while the plate stolen ended in a Y. This was discovered when the backup officer took it upon himself to call in the plate to double check it.
The officer that conducted the stop did zero investigation and could not even take a min to double check the plate before pulling people out with his firearm drawn.
The same officer had the nerve to blame the high-stress stop on modern Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR / Flock) camera technology, claiming the automated reader misread the final letter due to scanning angles.
However, records and dispatch logs raise critical questions about standard operating procedure: why wasn't the tag visually verified and double-checked against dispatch before drawing weapons and detaining an innocent family? Also there is no mention on the logs of a Flock camera getting a hit and dispatch alerting this officer. This was him making that mistake and now passing the blame on the camera/ AI.
If this guy is going to have this level of integrity over something like this, what else has he lied about over the years?
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