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Watch: police tase a black man after confusing him with another black man

Patrick Mumford was sitting in a car on Feb. 1, parked on a suburban driveway in Georgia when three Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department officers walked up and told him he was under arrest, according to body camera footage posted by a law firm. 

When asked his name, he answered, “Patrick,” but the officers didn’t believe him. They told him to get out of the car — to which he answered: “I’m not getting up, man. Show me the warrant.” 

Before the encounter was over, the officers had tased Mumford at least twice — only to find out later, on camera, that they had approached and attacked the wrong black man.

The officers were in fact looking for Michael Clay, who had a warrant out for his arrest. But the officers immediately assumed Mumford was their target, claiming that the men look alike.