Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice
The police surrounded her car Thursday, "drew their guns, and told her to come out with her hands up," reports a local news station. The police thought they were pulling over a murder suspect, but "It turns out it was a mistake by another department with the Flock license plate reader technology." The black woman says she'd wanted to call her mother, "but I'm like, if I make a sudden move, it's…
On Thursday, a woman was pulled over by police multiple times, being threatened with guns after officers mistook her vehicle for one belonging to a murder suspect. The incident occurred due to an error in the Flock license plate reader technology. The woman, a black woman, claims she was initially hesitant to call her mother for fear of making a sudden move that could end her life.
The same situation repeated itself on Monday, where Milwaukee police pulled her over again, this time towing her car and releasing her unharmed. She describes herself as traumatized, recalling her second detention as being scared and unsure of what was happening. The woman now fears driving her car, and her daughter shares her fear of being pulled over by police.
She demands an apology, as the local police only claimed it was not their fault, stating it was the fault of the Milwaukee police department for failing to remove the alert from Flock's system. The Milwaukee police, however, emphasized this was a data entry mistake, not an issue with the Flock camera. The woman's response was that "y all failed. Y all failed the system. Y all failed me. Y all failed everybody."
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