Post by Catsmate on Apr 5, 2022 10:16:25 GMT
Another enquiry for the Misfit Mob,
The Doppelgängers
Five days ago the Manchester police arrested an A. Tarriq for trespassing, breaking and entering (into an apartment above a bookstore) and resisting arrest. During the incident a TASER was employed. Repeatedly.
About two hours later, after being contacted by police, Tarriq’s mother entered the police station. She was somewhat confused as her son has been with her for most of the time and clearly wasn't in custody.
She was shown an arrest 'mugshot'. It was her son’s face. She called him and he arrived at the station.
By this time two and two had been added, the name Aiyden Tarriq recognised and senior police were worried.
Unfortunately, for someone, the lady's son, and owner of the apartment, was Aiyden Paul Tarriq, a local political activist2 and leader of a chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Who was due to lead a demonstration later that week...
Faced with two people, with the same face and fingerprints3, the police find themselves with a golden opportunity to offload the matter. The prisoner is 'sectioned' by a compliant doctor and bundled off to a mental health facility. A secure one.
Meanwhile Tarriq’s mother was (and is) convinced that the police were conspiring against her son ahead of the demonstration.
So she had a solicitor file a request for a review of the duplicate's detention, as a prelude to application for a habeas corpus writ.
This is being fought on the grounds that the detained person is obviously not her son.
The man in custody insists5 he is the real Tarriq, that the home he was arrested for trying to enter was his, and that the police (and his doppelgänger) are conspiring against him. Oh and his mother is dead.
This account has not impressed a rather overworked psychiatrist, so his detention has been confirmed.
Tensions between the black community and police are reaching a boiling point. The media, "professional" and amateur is getting involved.
Greater Manchester Police really want the matter to go away.
Enter the Misfit Mob.
Comments? Ideas? Suggestions?
1. GMP is a force with a long history of problems which culminated in 2020 with them effectively failing inspection, being put into "special measures" and the Chief Constable resigning in disgrace. At least eighty thousand crimes, many violent, went unlogged and uninvestigated.
2. Or. to the police, "rabble rouser".
3. DNA isn't available; the unimprisoned Mr. Tarriq refused to supply a sample and there is neither grounds, nor the will, to force the matter.
4. Not exactly impossible given the GMP track record.
5. As far as he can manage through the drugs.
The Doppelgängers
It all started as a fairly simple police referral, a case that was "odd". So it got dumped on us.
Actually it was more "hot" than "odd".
Greater Manchester police had arrested someone, after Tasering him, allegedly for trespassing. Then the case blew up in their faces and, given recent events1, they'd desperately sought to unload the matter onto someone else. Anyone else.
Why exactly the Boss agreed to accept it, I don't know but I suspect an exchange of favours
Actually it was more "hot" than "odd".
Greater Manchester police had arrested someone, after Tasering him, allegedly for trespassing. Then the case blew up in their faces and, given recent events1, they'd desperately sought to unload the matter onto someone else. Anyone else.
Why exactly the Boss agreed to accept it, I don't know but I suspect an exchange of favours
Five days ago the Manchester police arrested an A. Tarriq for trespassing, breaking and entering (into an apartment above a bookstore) and resisting arrest. During the incident a TASER was employed. Repeatedly.
About two hours later, after being contacted by police, Tarriq’s mother entered the police station. She was somewhat confused as her son has been with her for most of the time and clearly wasn't in custody.
She was shown an arrest 'mugshot'. It was her son’s face. She called him and he arrived at the station.
By this time two and two had been added, the name Aiyden Tarriq recognised and senior police were worried.
Unfortunately, for someone, the lady's son, and owner of the apartment, was Aiyden Paul Tarriq, a local political activist2 and leader of a chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Who was due to lead a demonstration later that week...
Faced with two people, with the same face and fingerprints3, the police find themselves with a golden opportunity to offload the matter. The prisoner is 'sectioned' by a compliant doctor and bundled off to a mental health facility. A secure one.
Meanwhile Tarriq’s mother was (and is) convinced that the police were conspiring against her son ahead of the demonstration.
So she had a solicitor file a request for a review of the duplicate's detention, as a prelude to application for a habeas corpus writ.
This is being fought on the grounds that the detained person is obviously not her son.
The man in custody insists5 he is the real Tarriq, that the home he was arrested for trying to enter was his, and that the police (and his doppelgänger) are conspiring against him. Oh and his mother is dead.
This account has not impressed a rather overworked psychiatrist, so his detention has been confirmed.
Tensions between the black community and police are reaching a boiling point. The media, "professional" and amateur is getting involved.
Greater Manchester Police really want the matter to go away.
Enter the Misfit Mob.
Comments? Ideas? Suggestions?
1. GMP is a force with a long history of problems which culminated in 2020 with them effectively failing inspection, being put into "special measures" and the Chief Constable resigning in disgrace. At least eighty thousand crimes, many violent, went unlogged and uninvestigated.
2. Or. to the police, "rabble rouser".
3. DNA isn't available; the unimprisoned Mr. Tarriq refused to supply a sample and there is neither grounds, nor the will, to force the matter.
4. Not exactly impossible given the GMP track record.
5. As far as he can manage through the drugs.