UM Campus Cops Cleared in Guns Drawn Incident
State Attorney's Office says no wrongdoing in mistaken identity incident
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The excitable UM campus cops who arrested at gunpoint and held a student on suspicion of theft were cleared yesterday by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office.
Excitable UM campus cops who questioned at gunpoint and held a student on suspicion of theft were cleared yesterday by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office.
"We have reviewed the matter and referred it back it back to campus police; we have no problem with the officers' actions," said Ed Griffith, spokesman for the state attorney's office, according to the Miami Herald.
Last week, junior politicsal science major Jordan Chusid had the scare of his life when two campus police officers approached him with guns drawn, mistaking him for a suspect who had stolen a motorcycle from the law school parking lot earlier in the day.
The whole thing was caught on tape by a grad student who just happened to be filming at the time of the incident.
“Get on the ground! Get on the ground! Don’t you run,” yells one officer as he points his pistol directly at Chusid. Another cop approaches from the rear and is also shouting instructions to the scared student.
Chusid, 20, complied with the officers' demands, and was released after the cops realized their error.
“It was a very scary experience,” Chusid told the Miami Hurricane, the campus newspaper. “I had two guns pulled on me. This is an experience that obviously sucked.”
Chusid's parents really thought the incident sucked, and they want the officers suspended.
"What they did what reprehensible," Mitchel Chusid, a Parkland attorney, told the Herald. "I understand they were doing their job, but to put a gun to my son's head and put him in handcuffs, that's unjustified. What if my son had acted differently? They probably would have shot him."
UM officials are still looking into the incident.
