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TIL pro football player Ty’Ran Dixon was jailed for 67 days, including 21 days in solitary confinement, after being mistaken for murder suspect Tyren Dickson, despite no resemblance, no evidence, and an alibi placing him 80+ miles away at a college football game during the crime.

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