WEARING A WHITE OR GRAY HOODIE THE WOMAN WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL HER CONDITION IS UNKNOWN
TONIGHT.
A BOTCHED INVESTIGATION BY THE SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT LEADS TO THE WRONG AFRICAN
AMERICAN MAN BEING INDICTED FOR
FELONY FAMILY VIOLENCE.
THE MASSIVE BLUNDER CONTINUES
TO IMPACT MICHAEL WRITES LIFE.
NEARLY 2 YEARS AFTER
INVESTIGATORS MIXED HIM UP WITH
THIS MAN WHO SHARES THE SAME
LAST NAME. THE 9 TEAM’S DILLON
COLLIER EXAMINES HOW
INVESTIGATORS MESSED UP.
IN TONIGHT’S DEFENDERS REPORT.
>> IT’S MID MARCH 2019 IN SAN ANTONIO POLICE OFFICERS CALLED TO THIS WEST
SIDE HOME FIND A DISTRAUGHT
WOMAN IN A CAR OUTSIDE
INSIDE THEY FIND SIGNS OF A
PHYSICAL STRUGGLE.
THE WOMAN’S BOYFRIEND, 36
YEAR-OLD MICHAEL RIGHT SOUND
ASLEEP.
ACCORDING TO THIS SAPD INCIDENT REPORT THE COUPLE SPENT THE NIGHT AT A CLUB WHERE RIGHT
WORK SECURITY THEN CAME HOME IN
ARGUE. RIGHT GRABBED THE WOMAN
BY THE THROAT LED HER AROUND
THE BED BEFORE PICKING HER OFF
OF HER FEET AND THROWING HER
DOWN ON AS OFFICERS DECIDE
WHETHER TO TAKE RIGHT IN FOR
QUESTIONING. WE SEE OUR FIRST
SAPD MISTAKE
PLAY OUT. WELL THE DISPATCHER
NOTES CORRECTLY IDENTIFY RIGHTS
MONTH AND DATE OF BIRTH,
THE OFFICER WHO TRIES TO LOOK
HIM OFF IN HIS IN VEHICLE
COMPUTER PULLS UP SOMEONE BORN
ON A DIFFERENT DAY WHO IS
4 YEARS YOUNGER.
>> CATCH 24 MI 6.
>> THE AIR REPEATED
ON THE DEPARTMENT’S CHARGE AND
DISPOSITION REPORT. THANK YOU
TAKE THEM WANT THOSE MEANING
THE MICHAEL WRIGHT INTERROGATED
BY DETECTIVE REYNALDO MONT AS
IS NOT THE SAME MICHAEL WRIGHT
LISTED IN THE PAPERWORK
LATER FORWARDED TO THE BEXAR
COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S
OFFICE. THE OVERSIGHT TAKING
PLACE EVEN THOUGH RIGHT
CONFIRMS HIS ACTUAL AGE WHILE
BEING QUESTIONED.
>> OF THOSE THE COMPOUNDING THE
GAFFE INVESTIGATORS INCLUSION
OF THIS PHOTO IN THEIR REPORT.
>> WHICH SHOWS THE WRONG
MICHAEL RIGHT. 5 FOOT 6 180
POUNDS WITH
SHORT HAIR. THE RIGHT WHO WAS
JUST IN POLICE CUSTODY FOR
HOURS BEFORE BEING RELEASED IS
MORE THAN HALF A FOOT TALLER
NEARLY
100 POUNDS HEAVIER AND HAS LONG
HAIR STAND UP GUY AND I’M A
VETERAN AND THAT SO IMAGINE
THIS MICHAEL WRIGHT SURPRISE
WHEN HE LEARNED IN THE SUMMER
OF 2019
THAT HE’D BEEN INDICTED FOR
FELONY FAMILY VIOLENCE FOR A
CRIME AGAINST A PERSON. HE’D
NEVER MET WHO HE WAS.
>> EXTRAORDINARILY INNOCENT BUT
DESPITE THAT FACT RIGHT STILL
HAD TO TURN HIMSELF IN
THINKING HE WOULD BE ABLE TO
QUICKLY CLEAR UP THE CASE OF
MISTAKEN IDENTITY RIGHT BROUGHT
ALONG HIS FAMILY FOR WHAT
IMMEDIATELY TURNED INTO ONE OF
THE MOST TRAUMATIC MOMENTS OF
HIS LIFE.
>> I STILL HAD TO BE SHACKLED
UP AND WALK DOWN PRISON
BASEMENT.
♪
BASEMENT. ♪ FROM
♪ FROM WRIST ANKLE. FROM MY
KIDS AND MY WIFE AND MY BROTHER
SISTER AMANDA FOR SOMETHING
LIKE THIS HAPPENED TO ME IS US.
YOU KNOW INCREDIBLE FOR IT WAS
A SEISMIC EVENT. HE’S SOMEBODY
THAT. FROST IN THE LA OKAY, HE
BELIEVES THAT.
POLICE ARE THERE TO PROTECT HIM
HE BELIEVES THAT HE CAN RELY ON
THE FUNDAMENTAL.
TENANTS OF OUR SOCIETY AND
WHILE THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S
OFFICE DISMISSED THE CHARGE
THAT OCTOBER.
>> ADMITTING THAT THE WRONG
MICHAEL WRIGHT WAS ARRESTED.
THE MOVE DIDN’T COME WITHOUT
SOME PUSHBACK ACCORDING
TO RIGHT. STILL SHARPLY RECALLS
ONE CONVERSATION WITH THE
PROSECUTOR TO ME
♪
JUST BECAUSE. IT’S NOT ME
IN THE VIDEO I DIDN’T DO THE
CRIME. THE
WALKING AWAY.
>> AND NOT EVEN KNOW TO ME OR
MY FAMILY NOT EVEN WITH THE
APOLOGY BEXAR COUNTY DISTRICT
ATTORNEY JOE GONZALES AND SAN
ANTONIO POLICE CHIEF WILLIAM
MCMANUS BOTH DECLINED COMMENT
FOR THIS STORY.
>> WRIGHT HAD THE ARREST
EXPUNGED WHICH MAY EXPLAIN WHY
THEY COULDN’T SAY ANYTHING
ABOUT IT. BUT THIS WAS NOT AN
ISOLATED INCIDENT FOR SAPD I
DIDN’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING
TO HAPPEN. IN DECEMBER KSAT
INTRODUCE VIEWERS TO EDUARDO
LOPEZ WHO WAS ARRESTED BOOKED
AND CHARGED WITH 2 FELONIES FOR
A HIT AND RUN CRASH. HE HAD
NOTHING TO DO WITH. AFTER LOPEZ
LOST HIS
REMODELING JOB AND USE THE
MONEY SET ASIDE FOR FAMILY
CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO PAY FOR HIS
BAIL. A DETECTIVE ADMITTED THEY
WERE ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR
SOMEONE WITH THE SAME NAME.
MCMANUS EVENTUALLY SHOWED UP IN
PERSON
TO APOLOGIZE. AND GAVE LOPEZ A
CHECK FOR 700 BUCKS I DON’T
THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE PURPLE
ONE OFF.
>> WHEN ARRESTING
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FOR ARRESTING
HISPANIC.
>> AMERICANS RICE DEFENSE
ATTORNEY
SHANNON WALKED HAS HAD A FRONT
ROW SEAT TO THIS
ISSUE IN SAN HE ALSO REPRESENTS
THE MAN SAPD OFFICERS WERE
ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR LAST
AUGUST WHEN THEY INSTEAD AND
CUFFED A JOGGER THEY BELIEVED
RESEMBLED
WALKS CLIENT AND FORCED HIM
INTO THE BACK OF A PATROL
VEHICLE IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE
MAKING THESE MISTAKES THERE
NEEDS TO BE CONSEQUENCES.
>> AND FRANKLY CHIEF MCMANUS
NEEDS TO LOOK AT WHY THIS
HAPPENS TO BLACK PEOPLE IN SAN
ANTONIO, ONE OF OUR
HIGHEST PRIORITIES.
>> RIGHT NOW IS MAKING SURE WE
ADDRESSED DISCIPLINE.
AS YOU SAY THAT SO THAT POLICE
OFFICERS WHO DO
ACT WRONGLY.
>> I HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND WHILE
CITY ATTORNEY ANDY SEGOVIA
CONFIRMS RISK MANAGEMENT IS IN
TALKS WITH RIGHT CIVIL ATTORNEY
ON A POSSIBLE OUT OF COURT
SETTLEMENT. IT APPEARS THE
SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT OFFICERS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE REPORT
WHICH INCORRECTLY LISTED RIGHT
WERE
NOT PUNISHED. CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSION RECORDS SHOW NEITHER
DETECT
AMOUNT AS OR SERGEANT JAMES
KLEIN HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED SINCE
MARCH OF 2019. WHEN
THE INCIDENT FIRST TOOK PLACE
35 YEARS OF HIS LIFE OF BEING A
BLACK NOW
YOU CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE IN
WHERE YOU CAN TREATED FOR THE
DEFENDERS DILLON COLLIER KSAT
12 NEWS. SO THE MICHAEL RIGHT
THAT WAS ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN
THE 2019 FAMILY VIOLENCE CASE
WAS INDICTED LAST SUMMER BEEN
ARRESTED IN LATE OCTOBER.