Woman awarded $35k after license plate reader mistake – she was wrongfully detained and left without her car for 3 weeks

A MUM has been wrongly detained after police linked her car to a crime using a licence plate reader.

Isoke Robinson, 46, was awarded $35,000 after she was handcuffed outside her home in front of neighbours when Detroit police wrongly linked her white Dodge Charger to a drive-by shooting she had nothing to do with.

She was never charged, but still left without a car and without answers, for more than three weeks, relying on borrowed wheels just to keep her job on the assemble line at Stellantis.

Her two-year-old autistic son was also already briefly placed in the back of a police cruiser during the chaos…

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