After his release, Hughes told CBS 11 that the police said witnesses saw Hughes firing the rifle.
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“We received a phone call that my face was on there as a suspect”, said Hughes in a thick Southern drawl, “And immediately I flagged down a police officer”. “I just didn’t understand how I had become a suspect”. They corroborated Cory’s insistence that Mark had turned his weapon over to the police, and even stated it wasn’t loaded at the time.
Last night, Mark Hughes was the most wanted man in America.
On Thursday night in downtown Dallas, gunfire scattered peaceful protestors marching in solidarity with cities struggling with fatal police involved shootings.
Mark Hughes’ is a licensed gun owner. Unfortunately for protester Mark Hughes, who wasn’t doing anything illegal, this was actually a case of misidentification – one that would prove disastrous for him and his family Friday morning. “The system was trying to get me”.
According to the Dallas reports, the suspect was identified as “Mark Hughes” and he was black skin, and wearing a camouflage top and had what showed same a semi-automatic rifle shot over his shoulder.
During a Friday news conference, lawyers for Hughes said he was carrying his gun legally and argued that the DPD’s tweet and media exposure put his life in jeopardy.
The police say they are keeping the photo of an innocent man on their Twitter feed, where it has been retweeted over 40,000 times, “because” they’re keeping it there. “We came out here because we’re exhausted of being hurt”. Is it illegal to carry a gun in public, or at a protest?
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He said he planned to discuss with his client “what further legal remedies are available for Mr. Hughes” and his brother, since both were detained. “I also said yesterday that our police have an extraordinarily hard job and the vast majority of them do their job in outstanding fashion”. “You see one group of individuals, they’re able to walk up and down the street with their assault rifles hanging from their waist, but the moment another group does it – people of color – we’re victimized…” Louis. “I can see the makings of a tragedy very quickly if a citizen gets in the midst of such a situation”.
