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Article: Innocently Named, Wrongly Tagged
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 4, 1995
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Pat and James Harris are used to being mistaken for other people.
When Patricia Roberts Harris ran for mayor of Washington in 1982, Pat
Harris would get telephone calls at home requesting interviews. The
same thing happened to her husband in 1974, when James Harris became
the first black quarterback to be a regular starter in the National
Football League.
They thought that was kind of cute. But what's happening to their
son is not. Brian Anthony Harris keeps getting mistaken for people
who commit crimes.
The latest episode involved Ralph McLean, 29, who is believed to
have shot and wounded two uniformed D.C. police officers in January
and then shot and killed FBI agent William H. Christian ...
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