A 49-year-old Black woman was wrongly arrested in front of her grandson, charged with elder abuse and jailed for three days after deputy sheriffs in Georgia looking for a white suspect from Kentucky with a similar name erroneously took her into custody.

Nickie Sledge of Lithonia, Georgia, said she was baffled when deputies from Rockdale County showed up at the movie theater in Conyers where she was watching a movie with her 5-year-old grandson on Dec. 21, 2024, just a few days before Christmas. They had lured her outside with a text saying her car had been struck in the parking lot, civil rights attorney Harry M. Daniels, who is representing her, told Atlanta Black Star.

“’Elder abuse? My elderly mother lives with me. I’m being punked,” she recalled telling them, reported WSB. “No ma’am,

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