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A Black man who was wrongfully detained by a maskless police officer tested positive for COVID-19, his fiancée said

Five days after being wrongfully detained by a maskless police officer, a Virginia man tested positive for COVID-19.

Jamar Mackey was eating with his family in a mall food court when officers approached him and handcuffed him before telling him why. The department has since apologized, but Mackey's fiancée is speaking publicly about his positive test, and her anger that the officers put their family at risk.

"I'm very angry that they put my family at risk. Me and Jamar, that's one thing but our kids, that's what upsets me the most," Mackey's fiancée, Shantel Covil told the station.in front of Covil and their two children at a Virginia Beach food court in Lynnhaven Mall on Dec. 19. Officers walked the man out of the mall without giving him an explanation."We got a description of someone that was using stolen credit cards, OK.

 

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