A black man in Nevada was wrongly arrested for the crimes of a white man.
Newly-released footage of a mistaken identity arrest shows a young black man repeatedly telling police they had the wrong suspect before he was jailed.
The first footage of the wrongful arrest of a man was obtained by the 8 News Now I-Team.
While conducting a Jan. 8, 2020 traffic stop on Brown, who is Black, Henderson police officers searched his first and last name in a records log and found a man who had skipped court and had a warrant out for his arrest.
The man described in court records as a bearded white man is now 51 years old.
The younger Brown was pulled over by the sheriff's office due to broken headlights.
Brown provided his first, middle and last names, as well as his Social Security card, when he was asked to show identification.
A young man was arrested for something with a weapon after police ordered him to leave his car and handcuffed him.
Brown said he had a court date scheduled for the day after he was arrested for traffic violations.
It matches you completely. An officer told Brown that there wasn't much else they could do.
Brown said his name to the officers. If you want to check that out, my social's in there as well.
In the footage, the officers are unsure if the warrant belonged to the younger Brown.
I don't know if I'm good to go if that warrant isn't me. Is that a felony warrant? Brown inquired about the officers.
One deputy said he was pretty sure it would be you.
Brown was taken to the Henderson Detention Center for two days after he couldn't convince officers that he wasn't the suspect. He was taken to a jail in Clark County.
After a public defender pointed out that the younger Brown did not have the same ID number or age as the one listed in the warrant, the younger Brown was released.
While the younger Brown was in jail, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department submitted information indicating that the older Brown was actually in custody.
According to the outlet, Brown is seeking legal recourse of at least $50,000 in damages for civil rights violations, false imprisonment, and other things.
The lawsuit says that at the CCDC, Brown explained that he was not the person named on the bench warrant. Despite being informed of the mistaken identity, no one from the unknown LVMPD police or LVMPD corrections officers bothered to check their own records to see if the person they thought was the subject of the warrant was actually him.
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For the first time, video of cops arresting a black man on a 49-year-old warrant.
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