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‘Girl, you gonna tell me this ain’t you?’: Police leave 11-year-old girl in tears after mistaking her for car theft suspect

‘Girl, you gonna tell me this ain’t you?’: Police leave 11-year-old girl in tears after mistaking her for car theft suspect

Background: News footage of the 11-year-old child who was detained by Onondaga…
‘You can’t be alive. You’re dead!’: ID mix-up led family to remove the wrong man from life support, lawsuit says

‘You can’t be alive. You’re dead!’: ID mix-up led family to remove the wrong man from life support, lawsuit says

Clockwise from left: Michael Beehler (KGW/YouTube), PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver,…
NJ woman mistakenly arrested, jailed for two weeks can’t sue over error

NJ woman mistakenly arrested, jailed for two weeks can’t sue over error

A New Jersey woman served two weeks of someone else’s parole violation…
Woman trying to kill ex-boyfriend gunned down roommate who borrowed his car in mistaken identity murder: Police

Woman trying to kill ex-boyfriend gunned down roommate who borrowed his car in mistaken identity murder: Police

Kiauna Newsom (Shelby County Sheriff’s Office) A 29-year-old woman in Tennessee was…
Lockport delivery driver unable to renew IL driver's license due to mistaken identity debacle

Lockport delivery driver unable to renew IL driver's license due to mistaken identity debacle

LOCKPORT, Ill. (WLS) — A Lockport food delivery driver was in shock…
Killer fatally shot wrong man after driving 250 miles to murder boyfriend of child’s mother after they had  ‘adversarial conversations’

Killer fatally shot wrong man after driving 250 miles to murder boyfriend of child’s mother after they had  ‘adversarial conversations’

Kendell Jerrell Morris (Madison County Sheriff’s Office) and Robert Cooley III (Legacy.com)…
Man executed victim he ‘mistakenly’ believed killed his friend, put murder weapon up for sale ‘just 21 minutes later” and ‘stayed up all night waiting’ for news articles

Man executed victim he ‘mistakenly’ believed killed his friend, put murder weapon up for sale ‘just 21 minutes later” and ‘stayed up all night waiting’ for news articles

Siten Anney and Trevor Alan Harrison (Harris County District Attorney’s Office) A…
Facial recognition technology misidentified Black woman as suspect in robbery and carjacking — while 8 months pregnant: Lawsuit

Facial recognition technology misidentified Black woman as suspect in robbery and carjacking — while 8 months pregnant: Lawsuit

Left: Porcha Woodruff and her family (Law&Crime has opted to blur the…
UC Berkeley scholar apologizes for wrongly claiming to be Native American her ‘whole life’

UC Berkeley scholar apologizes for wrongly claiming to be Native American her ‘whole life’

A California professor who claimed she was Native American for her entire…