Black man whom police wrongly identified as Dallas shooting suspect speaks out

“Because he’s my brother and I understood the severity of the situation, I told my brother, ‘Give that gun away”, hand his weapon over the police.

“You’ve already cleared our names within the department”, Cory Hughes said of Dallas police, “But are you gonna clear our names out here in this world?”

The false Twitter accusation wasn’t deleted until late Friday afternoon, after it had been been retweeted more than 40,000 times, and liked over 18,000 times.

As details of the fatal shootings of five police in Dallas, Texas emerged overnight, witnesses and protesters at a peaceful rally over police brutality were some of the first to capture events as they unfolded. Having no idea that his face was plastered on television and computer screens across the country, Hughes was, by his own account, “laughing and talking with police officers” as he marched with the crowd.

Where on the twitter handle there are Celebrities react to Dallas police deaths in their attack. Even Michael D. Brown, former under-secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, felt compelled to weigh in: “Stop besmirching him”.

Several twitter friends of Mark Hughes pleaded with Dallas police to take down Hughes’ photo, but his image remained on the police department’s twitter site.

While Hughes was being held, he said that police questioned him about why he wanted to shoot cops. The video shows Hughes relinquishing the weapon to an officer in an amicable exchange and the officer telling him how he could retrieve it.

A man who was wrongly identified as a suspect in the deadly sniper attack in Dallas and his brother say they’ve received death threats, CBS station KTVT reports. “I don’t know what to say”, Hughes said.

And then news teams found his brother, Corey, who insisted the police were wrong.

“We were here just for a peaceful protest. We came out here because we’re exhausted of being hurt”. “You see one group of individuals, they’re able to walk up and down the street with their assault rifles hanging from their waist, but the moment another group does it – people of color – we’re victimized…” “I didn’t see no gun”.

He said he planned to discuss with his client “what further legal remedies are available for Mr. Hughes” and his brother, since both were detained.