Gun-Wielding Police Torment Woman, Say They Used Flock Wrong

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Gun-Wielding Police Torment Woman, Say They Used Flock Wrong

A Wisconsin woman was mistakenly arrested at gunpoint — twice — after police failed to remove her wrongly flagged vehicle from the Flock surveillance system.

Flock cameras flagged Amber Newell’s car in connection with a homicide case that she was not involved in back in July. The Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) told FOX 6 that a department employee failed to remove Newell’s car from the Flock system, keeping the wanted-vehicle alert in place. (RELATED: Local Hero Barry The Beekeeper Electrifies The Room With Anti-Flock Speech At Council Meeting)

The error led to two separate incidents in which Newell was arrested at gunpoint and her car impounded by authorities, according to CBS 58.

“It was very embarrassing because after they put us in cuffs, they walked us to the car. I don’t know what’s going on. I’m scared. All you see is people in their cars recording,” Newell, a resident of Brookfield, Wisconsin, said.

The “nightmare” ordeal also cost Newell her job, she said.

“It was a nightmare. It is a nightmare,” she said. “I lost my job, not only one job, I lost two jobs behind this, because me being stopped on the highway.”

Bodycam footage shows Brookfield Police Department officers surrounding her car on I-94 with guns drawn on Aug. 6. Officers were frustrated once they learned her car was incorrectly flagged and left in the system.

“They fucking released the car to them without taking it out of the system. He literally said we just got back from Milwaukee taking it out. Why does that not surprise me? Unbelievable,” one cop said.

Two weeks before this incident, Newell’s car was flagged in a homicide investigation, leading to a wrongful arrest, CBS 58 reported. Authorities impounded her car but released it to Newell even though it remained in the Flock system, according to the outlet.

“I’m really mad at Milwaukee, MPD because y’all failed, y’all failed the system, y’all failed me, y’all failed everybody — I’m traumatized now,” Newell said.

MPD told the Daily Caller that staff “inadvertently did not remove a vehicle alert from the system.”

“The vehicle alert that remained from MPD generated the information that the vehicle was still wanted,” the department said.

Newell said she and her family are now too scared to drive anywhere, fearing they’ll be pulled over at any moment. (RELATED: ‘Don’t Take The Bait’: A Whole Lotta People Aren’t Buying Flock’s Latest PR Move)

“Literally on our way to where I’m at now, it was just an accident. And she was like, ‘Mama, I don’t think I want to be in the car anymore,’” Newell said of her daughter.

Brookfield Police Chief Christopher Garcia defended his officers’ actions during the Aug. 6 arrest, saying they were “consistent” with the information available to them at the time.

Newell told FOX 6 that Brookfield cops blamed the Milwaukee Police Department.

“The only thing they said was to contact Milwaukee Police Department, it’s their fault. That’s all they kept saying: it’s their fault, it’s not our fault, it’s their fault,” she said.

Newell has since hired civil rights attorney B’Ivory LaMarr, who told CBS 58 that they believe Brookfield PD’s actions were justified.

“What’s not excused is the City of Milwaukee,” he said. “She has real losses here. She has real trauma that came from this.”

LaMarr added that MPD acknowledged the mistake, but he still wants a more substantive apology and explanation.

They have not yet filed a lawsuit.