➡ A man named Mahendra Patel was accused of trying to kidnap a child at a Walmart. He was arrested and spent six weeks in jail before being released on bond. Patel insists he was only trying to help the child’s mother, who he thought was handicapped. The case has gained national attention, with many people supporting Patel and believing the incident was a misunderstanding.
➡ A woman accused Mahindra McPatel, a retired engineer and father, of trying to kidnap her child in a store. However, surveillance footage showed McPatel was actually trying to help the woman’s child who had slipped from her lap. Despite the video evidence, McPatel was arrested and spent six weeks in jail before being released. The incident has sparked a debate about the risks of helping others and the potential for false accusations.
➡ The text talks about witnessing a lot of things that are confusing or don’t make sense.

People being falsely accused. Now, this is one of the reasons why I always say innocent until proven guilty a lot of times in a court of law. Some stuff is just cut and dry, and you could just go ahead and see it. Oh, okay, I see it. You had a gun, it was on a body cam, you can kind of make sense of it. Other times, I’m like… I like you too, Shanice. I like you too. Other times, I’m like, I don’t know so much about that one. Let me figure that out.

But, I don’t know if y’all remember, but it was a man that was being accused of kidnapping a child or trying to kidnap a child at Walmart. Let me share it with you guys, and then y’all tell me whether or not you remember it, because it was a really big deal and went viral, and I would say that it probably ruined his reputation also. So, this is the beginning of it. This is how it kind of played out, and this is what was going on. Just within the past hour, a man accused of trying to kidnap a child at a local Walmart is free on bond tonight.

Thanks so much for joining us for Fox 5 News at 4, I’m Christine Spiro. Mahendra Patel walked out of the Cobb County Jail about a half hour ago. He’s accused of trying to snatch a two-year-old boy from his mother’s arms at an Atworth Walmart in March. Fox 5’s DJ Dukes is live at the Cobb County Jail with these newest developments in traffic. And Christine Patel still faces some very serious charges. Still, he was quite relieved when he walked out of jail with his attorney this afternoon. He spent more than six weeks behind bars for a crime he insists he did not commit.

I feel great. There’s a freedom that’s going on. Finally, I’m out. Mahendra Patel spoke to reporters as he left jail Tuesday afternoon. The 57-year-old man was released just a few hours after a judge granted him bond in a case that has captured national attention. I cannot even dream about somebody alleging me for doing this kind of thing. Forget about me dreaming to do this. So it was a shocker. This is store surveillance video of Patel’s interaction with accuser Caroline Miller and an Atworth Walmart in March that led to his arrest and a six-week stint in the Cobb County Jail on a charge of attempted kidnapping.

Police arrested Patel after the mother of two total authorities. He tried to grab her two-year-old son from her arms. Patel insists he’s innocent and was simply trying to help Miller, who he reportedly assumed was handicapped because she was riding with the children on a motorized scooter when the incident happened. I don’t know if anybody that watched that video can reasonably say that that was attempted kidnapping. I think maybe it was a misunderstanding at best. More than 300 people turned out in support of Patel. Whoo, hold on. Let me see what’s going on.

I think maybe it was a misunderstanding at best. More than 300. Y’all thought that y’all was the only ones that had a community. Y’all thought that y’all was the only ones that had a community. You thought that you was the only ones that show up. See, they show up when they serious about something. They don’t show up for the criminals. They’re not showing up because somebody was a YN was out there. What do you call an Indian person? An I-N? What do you call an Indian person? An I-N? They don’t just mess around with I-Ns.

They are very, very strategic when they use a privilege and a power because what will happen… Let me tell you why nobody cares about Black people. Y’all want to know why nobody takes Black people serious? Because everything that goes on, it doesn’t matter whether it’s right or wrong. We jump out the window and we say, oh no, let’s get it. They don’t show up for the criminals. Like they don’t show up when they know that somebody is guilty. They don’t show up when the I-Ns, they don’t show up when somebody is on some crazy stuff.

They handle that themselves. They outcast them. They want them to go to jail. They’re not rocking out with them, but when they see somebody is doing something that is really, truly innocent, is being falsely accused. Oh, it’s a YN, the YNs. Okay. All right. Here we go. Look at Pedro Rabbit. Here you go, dissing Black people. I’m trying to help you to understand what your nappy hair, your big head. Don’t you know I’m trying to help you to understand what your nappy hair, how you can be better served by being careful with where it is that you use your power? Don’t you understand that I’m trying to help your monkey butt? I’m trying to tell you that you have to be careful with when you start to support or when you jump out the window, because then you’ll start to be censored.

People will become numb to your concerns. They know that you’re going to jump out the window. They know that you’re going to start to be stupid. They know that you’re going to just jump out the window at every single thing, and then they’re going to become numb to your concerns and nobody is going to care. Don’t you get it? When somebody is being falsely accused, then they leverage their power to get my man out of jail so that he’s not rotten in jail for the rest of his life. But when you see a whole lot of people doing a whole lot of things that’s not supposed to happen, guess what? You see a whole lot of people that are innocent starting to rot because they can’t separate the who from a what.

They can’t separate and say, okay, well, wait a minute. This guy, because you got a whole lot of people doing a whole lot of stuff. Now you can’t even separate and say, okay, well, wait a minute. This guy is actually innocent. It reminds me of when women say, believe all women. Well, why should I believe all women? Because then when I actually, when you got people like Joy Taylors or you got these people that are falsely accusing people or they always leveraging the Tony buzz me, you don’t know when a woman is actually telling the truth.

Why? Because we don’t hold people accountable when they tell them to lie. We automatically jump off the bridge. We automatically jump off the block because we not on top of things. If they know that they can easily trigger you and outrage you, then what do you think is going to happen? Why do you think that it’s going to be any reform? Why do you think that nobody cares about putting any resources inside of the community? Because you don’t even help yourself. You don’t even hold your own people accountable. So then when wait, when they come out, I’m like, wait a minute, because you don’t see Indians popping out like that.

You don’t see Asians popping out like that unless it’s something as meaningful. You don’t see certain people popping out like unless it’s something as meaningful. You don’t see Arabic people popping out like that unless you see something as meaningful. A hundred people turned out in support of Patel, some traveling from India. The alleged incident is happening now. Here’s the other view of it, flipping back so you can see both views. That’s the alleged incident right there. Both the prosecution and defense played the surveillance video in court. Defense attorney Ashley Merchant said it proved Patel was not trying to take the child.

When you zoom in on it, you can actually see defendants grabbing this two-year-old child. But prosecutor Jesse Evans told the court Patel could be seen in the video trying to wrestle the boy from his mother. After weighing both sides, the judge ordered Patel be released on $10,000 bond. You’ve got to take it one day at a time. A lot of ups and downs in the days, but I knew we had a team outside helping me. So one day we’ll see the light out and then we see it today. Let me play this other video really quickly because I also want to get it from another lens because he said that the video actually proves his innocence and then I’ll give you my thoughts on what I think happened and whether I mean I think that he actually is innocent or if he needs to be if I see him as guilty prior to them actually you know getting into the court case and stuff like I was in the Walmart and I had to rip my baby out of some other man’s hands because he was trying to catch him.

This dramatic 911 call detailing what sounds like every parent’s worst nightmare. It all happened so fast and he was out of the store. It allegedly happened here at this Walmart outside Atlanta. This security footage shows a woman identified in a police report as 26-year-old Caroline Miller on a mobility scooter with her two kids when a man approached. But what happens next is at the center of a kidnapping case that has drawn international attention. Miller told police that an Indian man approached her and grabbed her two-year-old son and pulled him away. Miller did not return NBC’s request for common but detailed the alleged struggle to local station Atlanta news first.

And I’m like no no no what are you doing? What are you doing? And I got him back and then he just stared at me and then goes oh I just wanted to get him out of your life so you could get up and help me which was weird that didn’t make any sense and then he just walked off. That man was eventually identified as 56-year-old Mahindra McPatel, a real estate investor, retired engineer, husband, and father of two. Nah I call Cap 100 percent. 100 percent I call Cap. I call embellishment.

I think that he was probably actually trying to help her and I call Cap 100 percent. I call lies Cap and if I was him I would sue the pants off of that shit. After I beat the case, the dude is retired, he an engineer, he a father, he a husband, he ain’t never had no problems. You can clearly see that he seems like he’s trying to help. He not trying to hurry up and run. He didn’t try to hurry up and get out of there and none of that type of stuff.

He ain’t got no mask. He can’t get the hell out of here. That’s all Cap. I call Cap 100 percent. I’m not going for it. I call Cap but let me also say this. This is one of the reasons. This is one of the reasons why people don’t help people and they choose to mind their own business. When y’all sit there and say, how come no man help me? I was looking at an Instagram video that somebody sent me and they was saying that the woman was basically saying that she was trying to take her furniture or take some stuff that was heavy in her car and oh she’s a single woman and me and today ain’t nothing no more and that it was guys that was just walking by and was like you got it? Well part of it is feminism because you know women advocated for equal but then they still act like a man is supposed to operate like a traditional man.

The other part of it is that men are cautious. They don’t want to go into your apartment and then you accuse them of something. Half the time y’all call them weird when you recording yourself inside of a gym. Men are incredibly cautious. They’re more cautious than ever before today and they’re not trying to get caught up in your bullshit and so in this instance he probably seen a woman at seat that she was on her low mobility scooter. He was trying to help her. Clearly he wasn’t trying to get away or run out and stuff like that and so now he had to spend 45 and 45 days in jail with no bond before they were finally released the footage and then he was able to get in front of a judge to actually show that he’s not a threat to society and that he’s an upstanding citizen.

Bullshit 100% of the time. Get the heck out of here. This is why men when women ask the question and they say why don’t men do the things that the men from yester used to do is because we’ve seen too many guys before we even had all of these security cameras and footage. We’ve seen too many guys get accused of something that they didn’t do. I’m not coming in your crib. I don’t want to talk to you. I don’t want to help you with your groceries and if you’re in trouble I’ll call the police.

That’s what they’re there for. Guys are smartening up. They’re it take us a minute. It take us a minute because we still be trying to see the good in people. It take us a minute but eventually we figure it out and we say you know what we’re not helping nobody after this. Police arrested him and charged him with kidnapping of a minor assault and battery. He’s been in jail now for nearly six weeks but now Miller’s account is very much in dispute. When I finally got the video I was first I was upset that Mr Patel was still in jail.

Patel’s attorney Ashley Merchant says the evidence in this case shows something very different. Walk me through what that video showed when you finally were able to see it. I see the video and I’m like how how has this happened you know how was he even arrested? Merchant provided NBC News with over nine hours of surveillance video from various cameras inside that Walmart. In the video you can see Patel approaching these cameras. Look at the upper look at the upper left right hand one. Look at the upper right hand one of him talking to NBC News with over nine hours of surveillance video from various cameras inside that.

How is he trying to kidnap her? How is he trying to kidnap the kids? When you clearly see he got something in his hand she’s interacting with them he’s interacting with her. What is he doing? News with over nine hours of surveillance video from various cameras inside that Walmart. In the video nah fam I’m not going for it. If I was him I would sue the hell out of her. That’s why I’m suing the hell out of her. 100% he not even doing nothing. He ain’t doing nothing at all. You can see Patel approach Miller.

According to the police report Miller says Patel asked her where the Tylenol was. Merchant says that as Miller stands up to point to where the Tylenol was her two-year-old son slips from her lap. Patel says he tried to help stabilize the toddler. Miller alleged something different in that 911 call. I was in the Walmart and I had to work my baby out of some other man’s hands because he was trying to catch him. After that the video shows Patel walking off and he’s later seen approaching Miller one more time to show her that he found the Tylenol.

She appears to give him a thumbs up. I’m surprised that she would describe it as someone trying to take her child because it’s so obvious that it wasn’t. Now almost 45,000 people have signed a change.org petition calling for justice for Patel. And what was his original reaction when he got arrested because he probably did not see that coming at all. He was shocked. He could not believe it. Angry. Hasmuk Patel has been friends with Mahanver Patel for almost 40 years. He’s been talking to him on the phone every day from jail. He cannot believe it that he’s in for the things that he did not commit.

The Ackworth Police Department did not respond to NBC’s request for an interview but we went to the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office and a spokesperson told us there’s a lot more to the story but because it’s a pending investigation we can’t comment. For now Merchant and Patel’s friend says he’s angry but is willing to fight these charges until he can clear his name. I mean imagine being in jail knowing you didn’t do something and then having a video that shows you didn’t do anything but hearing that your government is still going to keep you in jail.

And he won down for battery, assault, kidnapping, everything. That’s very disheartening. And NBC’s Priya Sreeter joins us now from outside the detention center where Patel is being held. Priya, I understand Patel will have his first court appearing. Well he got out now so we don’t need to continue to review that but the point is is this is this is why I don’t trust nobody bro. This is why I don’t trust nobody and the prosecutors are still prosecuting. Get the heck out of here. Now again in our community it’s a lot more difficult because if you then say hey man I was arrested for something I didn’t do or whatever by default we’d be like man he was trying to get that little box over there because we so used to people doing stuff that they’re not supposed to do or for us to defend stuff immediately without any evidence that shows otherwise.

But the minute that we start holding ourselves accountable while at the same time supporting the causes of the people I would love to for example if a woman says yo I was assaulted I was great and this negatively happened to me I would love to immediately be like you know what y’all we got to mobilize we got to come to her aid but by default you know what I’m feeling like by default I’ll be like why was your pant what what made you go out with no panties on? Why was you out at three in the morning in his hotel room? You know I’m saying I just started to automatically by default because I’m so desensitized to the idea that women regularly lie about stuff that they’re not supposed to do and and guess what the women ruin that they don’t get the benefit of the doubt anymore because we’ve seen so much we’ve seen so much nonsense that don’t make sense
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