He's on probation as a non violent drug offender and if the charge sticks he's looking at 7 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2qgwx4yrO4
Full video:
www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/police-stun-wrong-man-then-arrest-him-for-obstruct/nry4Z/
A man is still fighting the legal system after Savannah police mistakenly thought he resembled a suspect and stunned him with a Taser.
Police charged Patrick Mumford with obstruction in the Feb. 1 incident, but the charge was dropped in April.
Unfortunately, his probation for an earlier arrest might be revoked because of the incident, his lawyer Will Claiborne said Friday.
t has got to stop. This system needs to be destr
“Patrick wants his story to be told,” Claiborne said. “We’re investigating whether or not to bring a civil lawsuit.”
Mumford was on probation as a first-time felony offender charged with possession of drugs, Claiborne said. If his probation is revoked, Mumford could face jail time.
In a video posted on YouTube on Thursday, viewers see police body camera footage from Feb. 1, when Mumford was mistakenly stunned by police.
Claiborne said Mumford wants people to see what happened to him and realize if you fit a certain profile, such as being a black man, you may get treated a certain way by police.
“They asked his name and he said ‘Patrick’ twice,” Claiborne said. “The first time the officer was talking over him and the second time they didn’t believe him.”
After Mumford asks, “What did I do?” and refuses to put his hands on the car, an officer shocks him with a stun gun. Once police see Mumford’s identification, an officer says: “You’re not who I’m looking for.”
Claiborne said his client made reasonable requests when approached by police officers and only tried to move away in a non-threatening manner to de-escalate the situation.
“The officers are the ones escalating the situation,” Claiborne said. “He’s attempting to disengage and makes no aggressive moves.”
The chief of the Savannah-Chatham Police Department called the video misleading and inflammatory and issued a statement Friday. Joseph Lumpkin said police are conducting an administrative investigation and posted body camera footage from three officers at the scene of the incident with Mumford.
The officers eventually tase Mumford twice. Lumpkin said in his statement that the officers perceived Mumford reaching for something as “a threat to their safety.”
Read more here: 3 videos show this black man’s mistaken arrest, but what happened is still unclear
Later in the video, the officers claim they asked for Mumford’s ID four times and he should’ve complied. Officers never asked him to show his ID, but did ask him for his name three times.
Lumpkin said the edited version omits “significant” details, such as a relative of Mumford telling him to cooperate with police and another relative agreeing with police that Mumford and Clayton look similar.
Lumpkin added that an administrative investigation into the incident was underway but he did not name the involved officers, choosing to refer to them as Officers A, B and C.
“We are reviewing the actions and decisions which our officers made in the current case,” Lumpkin said. “In doing so, we must consider all the facts and
not rush to unfair judgements based on highly edited videos which are apparently intended to mislead and inflame the public against the officers involved.”
Read more here: 3 videos show this black man’s mistaken arrest, but what happened is still unclear
Read more here: 3 videos show this black man’s mistaken arrest, but what happened is still unclear
This shyt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2qgwx4yrO4
Full video:
www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/police-stun-wrong-man-then-arrest-him-for-obstruct/nry4Z/
A man is still fighting the legal system after Savannah police mistakenly thought he resembled a suspect and stunned him with a Taser.
Police charged Patrick Mumford with obstruction in the Feb. 1 incident, but the charge was dropped in April.
Unfortunately, his probation for an earlier arrest might be revoked because of the incident, his lawyer Will Claiborne said Friday.
t has got to stop. This system needs to be destr
“Patrick wants his story to be told,” Claiborne said. “We’re investigating whether or not to bring a civil lawsuit.”
Mumford was on probation as a first-time felony offender charged with possession of drugs, Claiborne said. If his probation is revoked, Mumford could face jail time.
In a video posted on YouTube on Thursday, viewers see police body camera footage from Feb. 1, when Mumford was mistakenly stunned by police.
Claiborne said Mumford wants people to see what happened to him and realize if you fit a certain profile, such as being a black man, you may get treated a certain way by police.
“They asked his name and he said ‘Patrick’ twice,” Claiborne said. “The first time the officer was talking over him and the second time they didn’t believe him.”
After Mumford asks, “What did I do?” and refuses to put his hands on the car, an officer shocks him with a stun gun. Once police see Mumford’s identification, an officer says: “You’re not who I’m looking for.”
Claiborne said his client made reasonable requests when approached by police officers and only tried to move away in a non-threatening manner to de-escalate the situation.
“The officers are the ones escalating the situation,” Claiborne said. “He’s attempting to disengage and makes no aggressive moves.”
The chief of the Savannah-Chatham Police Department called the video misleading and inflammatory and issued a statement Friday. Joseph Lumpkin said police are conducting an administrative investigation and posted body camera footage from three officers at the scene of the incident with Mumford.
The officers eventually tase Mumford twice. Lumpkin said in his statement that the officers perceived Mumford reaching for something as “a threat to their safety.”
Read more here: 3 videos show this black man’s mistaken arrest, but what happened is still unclear
Later in the video, the officers claim they asked for Mumford’s ID four times and he should’ve complied. Officers never asked him to show his ID, but did ask him for his name three times.
Lumpkin said the edited version omits “significant” details, such as a relative of Mumford telling him to cooperate with police and another relative agreeing with police that Mumford and Clayton look similar.
Lumpkin added that an administrative investigation into the incident was underway but he did not name the involved officers, choosing to refer to them as Officers A, B and C.
“We are reviewing the actions and decisions which our officers made in the current case,” Lumpkin said. “In doing so, we must consider all the facts and
not rush to unfair judgements based on highly edited videos which are apparently intended to mislead and inflame the public against the officers involved.”
Read more here: 3 videos show this black man’s mistaken arrest, but what happened is still unclear
Read more here: 3 videos show this black man’s mistaken arrest, but what happened is still unclear
This shyt
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He knows who he looks like 
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Should be straight up fired for the lying, the abuse, the tazing and they should be arrested and have charges pressed to the FULLEST... 
