A license plate camera got it wrong. Police arrested the father instead

A Redmond father was handcuffed in his driveway after a Flock license plate camera linked his car to his son’s felony warrant. He says the system flawed.

REDMOND, Wash. — Redmond police officers surrounded the home of Thor Andrews Sr. on an August afternoon, moving quickly toward him in his driveway before placing him in handcuffs. Drone footage captured by the department shows the encounter lasting only seconds before Andrews is restrained.

But officers had the wrong man.

According to police records, the arrest stemmed from an alert generated by a Flock Safety license plate reader nearby in Redmond. The system had flagged Andrews’s

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