{"id":207487,"date":"2022-01-19T20:49:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/black-man-wrongfully-spent-six-days-behind-bars-because-officers-failed-to-properly-check-records-he-was-arrested-on-warrant-for-a-white-man-with-the-same-name-lawsuit"},"modified":"2022-01-19T20:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:49:03","slug":"black-man-wrongfully-spent-six-days-behind-bars-because-officers-failed-to-properly-check-records-he-was-arrested-on-warrant-for-a-white-man-with-the-same-name-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/black-man-wrongfully-spent-six-days-behind-bars-because-officers-failed-to-properly-check-records-he-was-arrested-on-warrant-for-a-white-man-with-the-same-name-lawsuit","title":{"rendered":"Black man wrongfully spent six days behind bars because &#8216;officers failed to properly check records&#8217;, he was arrested on warrant for a White man with the same name, lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While majority of the United States residents are fighting racism in every type and form, it&#8217;s getting pretty complicated when police officers or public figures end up being involved in racial type of situations and we all remember very well what had happened with the George Floyd incident nearly two years ago.Several law enforcement agencies are being sued by a Black man who was wrongfully arrested and spent a total of six days in prison after he was arrested on warrant for a White man, who had the same name and &#8216;similar&#8217; body description with the victim in the case.According to the lawsuit, the incident took place two years ago in January when the now 25-year-old S. Brown, was arrested by the police and spent six days behind bars until several law enforcement agencies realized they are looking for another man who had the same name and surname with the man they arrested.On January 8, 2020, Brown was headed to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While majority of the United States residents are fighting racism in every type and form, it&#8217;s getting pretty complicated when police officers or public figures end up being involved in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,8],"class_list":["post-207487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}