FIRST ALERT RADAR. THEY YOU CONTROL YOURSELF. RIGHT NOW. WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOME VIRAL VIDEO FROM A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY AND IT IS SPARKING OUTRAGE TONIGHT.IT SHOWS THE 12 YEAR-OLD BOY BEING ARRESTED BY LANSING POLICE AS HE TOOK OUT THE TRASH AT HIS OWN APARTMENT COMPLEX. POLICE SAY THEY CONFUSED HIM FOR A SUSPECT IN p ACTION NEWS REPORTER BRETT KAST HAS MORE ON THE FALLOUT. >> INTERVIEWS AND ROUGHLY 24 HOURS. THIS TIKTOK VIDEO SHOWS 12 YEAR-OLD TAYSHAWN BERNARD IN HANDCUFFS WITH THE LANSING POLICE OFFICER IN THE PARKING LOT OF HIS OWN APARTMENT. JUST MINUTES AFTER HIS DAD ASKED HIM TO TAKE THE TRASH OUT TO THE DUMPSTER. WHAT I WAS IN KITCHEN, YOU KNOW THAT I WAS >> BY SOME SIGNS SOMETHING IS WRONG. SO I DEPARTMENT. I GLANCED ROAD ARE REALLY EYESORE. ALSO AROUND HIS FATHER, MICHAEL BERNARD IS ALSO SEEN IN THE VIDEO COMING OUTSIDE TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED SEEN HERE SPEAKING WITH POLICE. HE WAS EVENTUALLY TOLD HIS SON WAS A SUSPECT IN ACAR THEFT AFTER DUMPING THE TRASH IN THE DUMPSTER. >> HE WAS APPROACHED FROM A POLICE OFFICER. WHO HAD HIS GUN AND HOLSTER WAS HOLDING IT IN FRONT OF HIM. AND DETAINED TREY SHINE AGAIN, A 12 YEAR-OLD CHILD AND HE WAS PUT IN HANDCUFFS AND THEN PLACED INTO THE BACK OF THE POLICE VEHICLE. ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT FROM LANSING POLICE, A SUSPECT IN A CAR THEFT RUN TOWARDS THE APARTMENT COMPLEX WEARING NEON SHORTS AND A WHITE SHIRT. >> POLICE RELEASED A SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON OF THE SUSPECT IN TAYSHAWN WHO WAS IN A GRAY SHIRT SAYING THEY BLUR THE IMAGES TO PROTECT IDENTITIES. >> IS GRAINY AND IT IS SUCH THAT THESE PHOTOGRAPHS MAKES IT UP HERE THAT THE SHIRT THAT OUR CLIENT WAS WEARING WAS WHITE WHEN IT IN FACT, IT WAS GREAT. THE INITIAL POST FROM POLICE ALSO CALLED IT A CASE OF, QUOTE, WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME THAT THEY HOPE TO PUT BEHIND THEM MAKING NO DIRECT APOLOGY TO TAYSAWN OR HIS FAMILY. >> THIS HAS BEEN A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE OUR CLIENT AND EXPERIENCE THAT WILL AFFECT HIM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. >> A FEW HOURS LATER, CHIEF ELLERY SIZE BE FOLLOWED UP WITH ANOTHER STATEMENT SAYING, QUOTE, AS THE CHIEF OF POLICE, I WANT TO APOLOGIZE THAT THIS INCIDENT HAD SUCH AN EFFECT ON THIS YOUNG MAN AND HIS FAMILY. I'M ASKING FOR THE COMMUNITY TO CONSIDER ALL THE FACTS OF THE SITUATION BEFORE MAKING A JUDGMENT. > WHAT WE HOPE TO HAVE HAPPEN. >> IS THAT THIS INCIDENT DOES NOT HAPPEN TO NOT ONLY BUT TO MANY OTHER BLACK YOUNG MAN. WE'RE WALKING THE STREETS OF THIS COUNTRY TODAY. >> AND THE BERNARD FAMILY ATTORNEYS SAY THEY HAVE NOT RULED OUT FILING A LAWSUIT AGAINST LANSING POLICE. I'M BRED CAST 7 ACTION NEWS. >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH, BRETT. NOW, THE MAYOR OF LANSING ALSO APOLOGIZING MAYOR ANDY SCHOR RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING IN PART OUR OFFICERS DO THEIR ABSOLUTE BEST TO PROTECT LANSING. BUT IN THIS CASE, A MISTAKE WAS
