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A Wisconsin woman is suing after she alleges officers crashed their police vehicle into her car then jumped out with their weapons pointed as she waited for a job interview. Robin Anderson, 21, was siting in her car outside of an Applebee’s restaurant at Bayshore Town Center on the morning of Dec. 20, 2017.

Anderson, who was early to her interview, parallel parked her car outside a cell phone store not far from the restaurant. Then a Glendale police squad car slammed into her passenger side door. One of the officers hopped out smashed her passenger side window and pointed a gun at her before ordering her to crawl over the shards of broken glass and out of her car, Anderson told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“Don’t move or they’ll shoot you,” she remembers telling herself.

Glendale Police Department said the incident was a case of mistaken identity. The officers were actually looking for a group of Black men suspected to be behind a string of cell phone store robberies in the area. However, Anderson believes she was racially profiled.

Authorities claim the men were allegedly driving a Hyundai Elantra, a completely different model from Anderson’s car.

“The only thing Anderson had in common with the thieves is that she is also African-American,” according to the suit, filed by Anderson’s attorney Mark Thomsen. “Had Anderson been white this would not have happened.” The suit names the City of Glendale, officer William Schieffer and Detective Adam Wall as defendants.

Glendale Police have apologized for the incident and paid to replace her busted window. However, Anderson was left to pay for the dents in her car. Anderson hopes her complaint will prevent other people for experiencing the same thing she did.

This is something that I see all the time, everywhere, that African-Americans are being stopped for no reason and police officers aren’t being held accountable for the situations when they are wrong,” she told the Journal Sentinel. “I just want it to stop. I just want them to know this is not OK.”

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