Mistaken Dallas suspect cries foul: 'I could have been shot!'
July 08, 2016 16:31
Mark Hughes was considered a person of interest in the Dallas protest shooting. But while the world was seeing his picture, he was talking with police, and video shows him turning the gun he was carrying over to police moments after the shooting occurred.
Speaking to a US television news crew after emerging from a police interrogation room, Mr Hughes said: "I cant believe it. The crazy thing about it is with hindsight, I could easily have been shot."
Mr Hughes claimed he was interrogated by police With police officers lying, saying they have video of me shooting, which is a lie, saying that they have witnesses saying that I shot a gun, which is a lie.
"The system was trying to get me."
Soon after the shootings began, the Dallas Police department tweeted a picture of one Mark Hughes, who is seen wearing a camouflage T-shirt and what appears to be a rifle, the butt of the gun sticking out from the bottom of the picture. "This is one of our suspects," said the tweet. "Please help us find him!" The tweet is still live and has been retweeted nearly 40,000 times (most of the responses are now asking for its removal).
Hughes said, having voluntarily turned himself in to police: "I was talking to police, laughing and joking with police officers."
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