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The original was posted on /r/nostupidquestions by /u/Definitely_NotAHobo on 2023-09-20 14:48:40.
Last night I was walking home, and a cop pulled into a parking lot and turned on his lights. He called me over to him as I was crossing the driveway he pulled into.
He asked me if I've been breaking into cars. I said no. He said I look exactly like someone that was caught on video breaking into cars. He kept asking where I live, and if I've been in trouble before. I gave him my ID. He went back to his car to run it.
When he came back, he showed me a picture on his phone and said "this is the security camera footage, you see why I thought it might have been you."
The picture he showed me was an overweight man with dark hair. I am a 5'3" blonde woman. There is no way in a million years that anyone could have confused me for the person in that image. And how would running my ID verify that I'm not the person in that picture?
What happened here? I've never been accused of a crime before, and I didn't know what was happening. Would I have been allowed to just keep walking when he called to me?