Brooklyn cops used a stun gun on the wrong man Tuesday when they responded to an emergency call about a guy who was emotionally disturbed, witnesses and authorities said.
A desperate mother dialed 911, saying her son was being disruptive and had busted up their home and run off, sources said.
Allison Wilson, 48, called police to her Crown Heights home after her son, Andre Hinkson, started wrecking the place.
“He was acting really weird,” she said. “This guy was breaking up the apartment. He was throwing and breaking up the apartment. He broke all my China.”
When uniformed and plainclothes cops arrived shortly before 3 p.m. at Lincoln Place and Buffalo Ave. in Crown Heights, they confronted another man, Charles (C.J.) Walcott, and tried to subdue him.
“C.J. asked them what happened and why they were arresting him,” said a witness who didn’t want to be identified.
“One of the officers said, ‘Your mother called police on you,’ and they kept jumping on him. Another officer said C.J. was resisting arrest and when they got him to the ground, they Tased him three times. Another officer said, ‘You’re going to jail.’ ”
Wilson said that police asked her to come identify her son in the back of the ambulance.
“I said, ‘That’s not my son,’” Wilson explained.
Instead of letting him go, they said he was resisting arrest and took him to Kings County Hospital, the witness said.After that, he was released without charges, police sources said.
“They had the intersection blocked with four Jeeps and a control car,” said Shania Seldy, 26. “He was on the corner. They Tased him and he went down. A guy came running from the street and he said, ‘Officer, you got the wrong guy.’ But they didn’t care. They put him in the ambulance and they took him away.”
Walcott was wearing clothing similar to what Hinkson was sporting and was irrational, cursing as officers approached him, police sources said.
Because of his alleged reaction — the foul language, yelling and body language — the cops thought Walcott was the man they were looking for, the sources explained.
That’s when the police Tased him.
“The commanding officer is aware of the situation and is looking into the matter,” said Sgt. Brendan Ryan, a department spokesman.
Hinkson’s father said his son was OK.
“What happened down the block happened to another guy,” said the dad, who did not want to be identified.
“I’ve already been to the precinct twice about it. I don’t want to talk about it.”
The incident came almost two weeks after an unarmed man was fatally shot by cops who mistook a piece of pipe he was brandishing for a gun.
Cops were responding to a 911 call reporting a man with a gun when they encountered Saheed Vassell, 34, a bipolar welder on the corner of Utica Ave. and Montgomery St. in Crown Heights on April 4.
Officials said four cops opened fire on Vassell after he turned and pointed the pipe in their direction.
Vassell’s family and neighborhood activists decried the shooting, and urged the NYPD to release an unedited video of the shooting, and identify the officers who opened fire.
The gestapo thugs demand complete submission to their every command, even when you are innocent and have committed no crime. If wrongful arrest and the resulting assault concluded with the gestapo thugs being fired and put in prison, it would be a good deterrent, but of course we all know that the gestapo thugs are all given impunity and a “007 license”.