Dallas PD Refuses To Take Down Photo of Exonerated Man They Called Suspect

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Last night, after officers were shot, the Dallas police posted a photo of a person of interest. The photo showed a man in a camouflage shirt walking with a rifle strapped to his body. Immediately, Twitter sleuths began pointing out that the same man was visible in videos when the shots began. He was clearly not shooting. In fact, one video even

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[spiritoftherain]

Fucking police. Way to boil away any goodwill they might have had from the public over this...

[amw]

Amen. This, combined with using terrorist tactics to carry out a remote-controlled execution of the perp has basically drained any respect I had left for the police.

[emofordino]

seriously. and they wonder why so many people don't trust the police force.

[mimblexwimble]

The tweet has been taken down.

[moonshaz]

THANK GOD.

[richeiieu]

You know if it was a white person they'd be all apologetic and we'd see posts all over the Internet about the "senseless abuse" the white person received.

[spiritoftherain]

And there wouldn't be any excuses of non-action boiling down to "Because we can."

[d1gitalnative]

I hope he sues.

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UPDATE: It took Dallas PD 17 hours to delete a tweet accusing an innocent man https://t.co/DYDTbmmdMB
- Mashable (@mashable) July 8, 2016