Twitter Exonerated. Why Didn’t Police Clear This “Suspect” in the Dallas Shooting?

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"One tweet put Mark Hughes’ life in danger Thursday night, and probably changed it forever—even though, within minutes, a slew of others had essentially exonerated him. The tweet came from the Dallas Police Department at 12:52 a.m. ET. It included a photo of a man who was quickly identified as Hughes, the brother of Black Lives Matter protest organizer Corey Hughes, clad in a camouflage shirt and toting a rifle. It called him a “suspect” in the ambush on police and implored the public to help authorities find him.

...what Hughes thought was a simple misunderstanding quickly escalated into an ordeal that is not likely to end anytime soon. CNN and other news outlets were still running with the “suspect” narrative even after Twitter had essentially exonerated him. And Hughes told CBS he was taken in for a 30-minute police interrogation in which officers claimed to have videos and witnesses that proved he had fired shots. Afterward, it dawned on Hughes that he had been in grave danger without realizing it. “Hindsight 20/20, I could have easily been shot,” he said. And when authorities declined to publicly declare him innocent following his interrogation, his shock at being presented to the world as a mass-shooting suspect on the loose began to turn to anger."

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat..._hughes_in_the_dallas_shooting_why_haven.html
 
Walking around in public with guns draped all over your body is a thing in Texas.

Of course, he was black.
 
ronny rayguns and the NRA were against open carrying cali when the black people began open carrying
 
Legion Troll said:
Walking around in public with guns draped all over your body is a thing in Texas.

Of course, he was black.
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"Cory Hughes added that his brother had decided to hand over his firearm—which was not loaded and which he was carrying legally under Texas’ open-carry laws—to authorities as soon as the gunplay began."

I think we both know that in this case being black trumped everything else.
 
evince said:
he gave a cop his gun right away folks
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Exactly. And the Dallas PD didn't exonerate him for 17 hours, nor did they apologize.

Update, July 8, 2016, at 5:40 p.m.: A Dallas Police Department tweet that misidentified Mark Hughes as a suspect in the Dallas shootings appeared finally to have been removed from Twitter as of 5 p.m. Friday, some 17 hours after it was posted. The department still has not published a tweet correcting the information, nor has it issued any other official statement to clear his name, other than a tweet from a public information officer's individual account early Friday morning.
 
christiefan915 said:
They shouldn't have put out a tweet saying he was a suspect. That was like putting a target on his back.
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They thought he was at the time. I mean I feel for the guy, it sucks being in that position. I wouldn't want that happening to me. But you're claiming it's some racist conspiracy when they were going after a black shooter why would they say someone who is non black would be a suspect?
 
christiefan915 said:
Exactly. And the Dallas PD didn't exonerate him for 17 hours, nor did they apologize.

Update, July 8, 2016, at 5:40 p.m.: A Dallas Police Department tweet that misidentified Mark Hughes as a suspect in the Dallas shootings appeared finally to have been removed from Twitter as of 5 p.m. Friday, some 17 hours after it was posted. The department still has not published a tweet correcting the information, nor has it issued any other official statement to clear his name, other than a tweet from a public information officer's individual account early Friday morning.
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Well, they were kind of busy with other things.
 
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