Nigerian-American man, Mathias Ometu who was arrested in a case of mistaken identity, speaks out after encounter with San Antonio police

Mathias Ometu, the 33-year-old Nigerian-born American man who was arrested while jogging, made his first public appearance on Wednesday September 2. 

The USAA employee was arrested on August 25 after police stopped him for “fitting the description” of a family violence suspect they were looking for, even though the victim’s description differed from Ometu’s physical profile according to a body camera footage released on Tuesday September 1. 

Recounting his ordeal, Ometu said he was jogging near Interstate 10 and Woodstone Drive in San Antonio, Texas when he noticed a police car slow down by him before speeding past him and turning back around toward him.