20-Year Old Black Woman to Sue Police Dept After They Mistook Her For a Male Robbery Suspect

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    'I could've died': Preschool teacher wrongly arrested at gunpoint in case of mistaken identity

    A preschool teacher from Milwaukee is suing the city of Glendale, Wisconsin, and several police officers after she was arrested at gunpoint in what police later said was a case of mistaken identity. In December, Robin Anderson, 20, was parked when a police car suddenly hit her door, pinning it closed. She thought it was an accident. "But then when I saw the police officers and they were screaming, 'Keep your hands up,' I was, like, 'OK, put your hands up. Don't move. They will have a reason to shoot you if you move. And that will be it for ...


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    'I could've died': Preschool teacher wrongly arrested at gunpoint in case of mistaken identity

    A preschool teacher from Milwaukee is suing the city of Glendale, Wisconsin, and several police officers after she was arrested at gunpoint in what police later said was a case of mistaken identity. In December, Robin Anderson, 20, was parked when a police car suddenly hit her door, pinning it closed. She thought it was an accident. "But then when I saw the police officers and they were screaming, 'Keep your hands up,' I was, like, 'OK, put your hands up. Don't move. They will have a reason to shoot you if you move. And that will be it for ...


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    https://www.chron.com/news/article/I-could-ve-died-Preschool-teacher-wrongly-13322900.php
     
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    20-Year Old Black Woman to Sue Police Dept After They Mistook Her For a Male Robbery Suspect

    Robin Anderson, a 20-year old African-American pre-school teacher from Wisconsin, was a victim of mistaken identity last year when she was wrongfully and violently arrested for a robbery committed by Black male suspects. She has since filed a racial profiling lawsuit against the city of Glendale and the police officers involved. During the early morning of December 20, 2017, Anderson was sitting inside her car parked outside a cell phone store near Applebee’s restaurant while waiting for her job interview when police officers smashed her car window and pointed their guns at her. In connection with the incident, Anderson filed ...


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