"Picking Cotton" Can Have Many Different Connotations......

More on this in a few, but cross racial identification is notoriously unreliable. A truly horrific story for both parties involved:

Eyewitness: How Accurate is Visual Memory

And when you read further into this story, Mr. Cotton received no multi-million dollar settlement for this grave mistake. His restitution? $10,000 dollars for each year he spent incarcerated. A true horror film pales in comparison to this tale.