‘Walking While Black?’: Minnesota Man Sues Cops for Violent Encounter Allegedly Based on Racial Profiling. Police Say the Arrest Was Justified and Simply a Case of Mistaken Identity
By Jill Jordan Sieder In June of 2022, Derrick Gilbert was walking to his job as a line cook at a restaurant in Willmar, Minnesota, wearing a sleeveless red hoodie with the hood up. He was spotted by Willmar Police Officer Christopher Flatten, who was driving by and said he mistook Gilbert for a man…