Not a police officer, but I have a story of mistaken identify that happened to my brother. He rode Harley's for 20 years. He was into the Harley lifestyle (clothes, bike vacations to Sturgis and bike week ect.) but he was in no way a "Biker" He had a custom license plate on his bike that was very desirable for Harley owners all over North America. I don't want to say what it was but the letters HD were part of it. One day he gets a knock on his door, it was a Detective that wanted to speak to him about "something". My brother invited him in and the detective started asking him a bunch of questions about his friends, who he spends time with and where he was on a certain night a few weeks earlier. Tells him there was a double m****r and the suspect was riding a Harley Davidson with his license plate and had a similar physical description (Big guy, leather jacket, black leather boots and beard). They suspected it was gang related (Hells Angels were moving into this area at the time) After talking to my brother he told him that he didn't think they had the right guy. He had no criminal record and no affiliation with anyone in a gang, plus they were following him everywhere for a week! Turns out the guy they were looking for had the same type of Harley, same license plate, but from a different state or province, and looked like him. Needless to say he changed his license plate the next day.
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