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October 9th, 2017 
Awake Goy 
The City of Decatur Police Department is doing an internal review of an investigation that led to the wrongful arrest of a former Verizon employee who helped stop a crime.
The review comes after 11Alive’s Jennifer Leslie began asking questions about why an investigator relied on the wrong surveillance video as evidence against Omar Malcolm, 31.
Malcolm was one of two employees working at a Verizon store in Decatur on January 23, 2016, when two men in hoodies walked in and tried to steal an iPad from one of the demonstration tables.
Store surveillance video shows Malcolm’s co-worker, Armani Grant, grab one of the men before Malcolm runs up and tackles the other one.
“Was it instinct that kicked in?” Leslie asked Malcolm.
“It was definitely instinct because I’m not a very truculent person, not very aggressive at all,” he explained.
Malcolm got the iPad back, but the thieves got away.
“So you’re probably thinking you’ve got a piece of evidence for police?” Leslie asked.
“Exactly,” Malcolm said. “As far as fingerprints, I thought they were dead to rights because they didn’t have any gloves on or anything.”
A customer called 911 to report the crime.
“What did they take?” the 911 operator asked the customer.
“They didn’t take anything,” he said. “They got beat up by the guys in the store.”
Decatur Police responded and examined the iPad for fingerprints but never interviewed Malcolm or listed him as a witness or employee in the incident report.
Three months later, police came back with a match to Omar Malcolm, the same store employee who tackled one of the suspects and grabbed the iPad.
His prints were on file with police from a misdemeanor charge that was dismissed years ago.
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