Police pull guns on vehicle occupants after outdated Flock alert: ‘Unbelievable’

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (WDJT) – New body camera video shows the moments an outdated Flock camera alert led police to pull their guns during a high-risk traffic stop in Wisconsin earlier this month.

The alert linked the vehicle to a Milwaukee homicide investigation, even though police had already cleared it.

The video also captures police officers expressing frustration as they realized what happened.

On Aug. 6, several Brookfield officers stopped a car on the side of Interstate 94 with weapons drawn.

A Flock Safety alert warned officers the car was connected to a Milwaukee homicide investigation involving an armed suspect.

“Go ahead and put handcuffs on her,” an officer could be heard saying on the police video.

There was just one issue: Milwaukee police had cleared the vehicle from their investigation, but not from the Flock system.

“I don’t know. It’s Milwaukee, man,” one officer said in response to a question from the detained person about why the vehicle was still listed.

The people pulled over were not the suspects Milwaukee police were initially searching for.

“We just got my truck out of evidence. I have the papers and everything. We literally just got out of evidence,” the vehicle occupant said.

Milwaukee police acknowledged the mistake, writing, “MPD staff inadvertently did not remove a vehicle alert from the system.”

In the body camera video, officers can be heard calling the situation unbelievable as they worked to sort out the traffic stop.

“Unbelievable. It’s constant,” one officer claimed.

Brookfield police said their officers acted on the information available to them. The department did not disclose which Flock cameras triggered the alert, citing safety and security concerns.