A Wired journalist was shocked to learn IMDb listed him as playing a "perp" on Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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Jason Parham wondered how he ended up with an IMDb credit for Brooklyn Nine-Nine since he's not an actor. "You’ve got to understand the irony in all of this," he writes. "I’m a black guy—6 feet, around 215 pounds—and I often believe a segment of society perceives me as a wrongdoer. The thought licked my brain. On Twitter, I jokingly cried racism. Over and over, I scanned every inch of the page, taking in the newness of who the internet said I was. I let out a small puff of nervous laughter. Mostly, though, I wanted to know how this happened. Was the matter a simple error, or something else?"