Man Arrested 60+ Times For Trespassing At His Own Job
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2013
- "A Florida convenience store owner is preparing to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against local police after collecting more than two dozen videos detailing what he describes as regular harassment by officers against both customers and his employees.
The Miami Herald reported that since installing cameras at his store in June 2012, 207 Quickstop owner Alex Saleh has amassed footage of Miami Gardens police arresting people for trespassing despite them having permission to be at the store, as well as conducting searches without a warrant and in at least one instance, reporting a trespassing arrest saying one of Saleh's employees was loitering outside the business when video of the arrest showed him being taken into custody while he was working inside.
The employee, Earl Sampson, has reportedly been put in jail 56 times, searched more than 100 times and questioned more than 250 times over the past four years, despite Saleh informing police on several occasions that he worked at the establishment."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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Do you realize how many real criminals they could have been arresting instead of wasting time arresting an innocent man?
Arrest real criminals? You mean ones that might be carrying guns? Oh no, much better to arrest people going about their work. Then they can stay in the office doing paperwork!
not much since they're the police hahaha
Yes, thy could have arrested themselves and caught some REAL criminals!
Right? Think of all of the man hours and taxpayer dollars these cops wasted *just to harass this one guy...* These cops screwed the taxpayers out of thousands of dollars just because they have some inexplicable grudge against Earl Sampson specifically.
How ironic... having to install cameras to protect yourself from the police... 🤦🏽♂️
Not just protecting his employee, but he has to protect everyone outside and coming to his store.
This guy is an awesome boss, and an upstanding member of his community. Because he is protecting his community from the police. Much respect.
And Earl you have an awesome constitution for being harassed and not lassing out. If all people were like you there would be no war or hate.
Jah Jah Guide your true heart, to the divine glory that waits for you. You walk the path of the almighty exactly like the almighty. May your feet, body and soul, be washed with the tears of joy of the almighty Jah Jah.
Scary but shows not any real crime to deal with
@@WorksopGimp also local people outside of the shop got arrested as well for nothing. Wasn't just Earl. Shop owner put up cameras to protect his community from police.
Everyone is doing it now.
It's basically why dash cams became standard in Moscow years before it was commonplace in the US. Sure the traffic is a mess so accidents are frequent but without those cams those Russian cops under Putin will either arbitrarily assign blame or extort bribes. So. Yeah. Not to minimize the fairly obvious racial motive here but it's not so novel to have to protect yourself from the forces of supposed law and order.
THEY DID NOT ASK THE STORE OWNER WAS HE TRESPASSING, THEY JUST GRABBED HIM....WOW
It's like oh no, here they come again, just go with it ugg...
This is TYT dude, these guys lies with all the teeth in their mouths.
Fun part is, there is actual racism out there, but since looking in a 5 minute google search is hard, these guys have to made everything up.
Nope they don't follow any laws now
@@cruzwindu777deffsff4 what are u saying people lie about cops being lying corrupt bullying bitch ass tyrants...
After that many contacts I'm pretty sure they didn't need to ask-no way they couldn't know!!
And we lecture other countries about human rights.
Ironic and hypocrisy
It’s craxy
@w23857980
well said, sir.
Human right lecturer for hire.
Like in our country philippines. Warned our government for human rights violations.
Yeah! Arrest that man every time he shows up to work. That will teach him to try and earn an honest living instead of selling drugs on the street.
Yeah, people ask why they sell drugs and do all of that, look at this! Even if they try to make an honest living, the police still are going to arrest them for working
Seriously? HE ONLY HAD DRUGS ONCE Plus He Wasnt Selling It He Was Using It Himself But Yeah, If You Had Marujuana Once And Got Arrested Once Would You Like It If Someone Said What You Said? Think Before You Type It, Im Having A Bad Day So If I Find Anyone Else Typing Stupid Comments Like This I Will Reply And Correct Them
Jordan Rothmann you are the one that is typing a stupid comment and need correcting. He never said that he sell drugs nor did he mention anything about the guy possessing drugs. You seem to be the only one that has never heard of sarcasm.
the drug thing was mentioned in the video
I can't believe this comment got 300 Plus likes!!! wow! America is just a joke.
This might be a stupid question, but how can you trespass in an open store?
Alexendra Holmes the only way I can think of if the owner ask you to leave and you refuse that is than consider trespassing
Ahh by taking out the garbage is the only answer I can think of.
You can't trespass if you work there
When cops don’t have a legitimate reason they’ll make one up
Police Logic: just by being black
Glad his employer is standing up for the man
Like Cenk says, "they knew after the FIRST time that he was an employee, not a trespasser".
If this isn't intentional malice, it's record-breaking levels of incompetence.
I agree, many would fire the Black man because it was too much work having them around to be racially profiled sadly.
Cop should be fired immediately
Plural. This isn't one cop. They make good cops look bad.
They investigated themselves and found cops didn't do anything wrong.
@@miybre overplayed
They should all be fired! They know they're doing bad things, they just lie to us so they can get away with naughty behavior!
@@marikiemarie7622 I know that's really the sad part. Then they wonder why people don't respect nor trust cops.
The part that really sickens me is if/when the cops kill this guy they will say "He had a record a mile long."
Collin Frank man that's so damn true!!
Collin Frank they will if he ACTU ally does. Otherwise they'd just be caught lying
So true! .
Collin Frank don't worry, when that happens the blm crew will riot and loot to make up for lost time. Cheers
Collin Frank 😣
Kuddos to the owner for backing up his employees.
Missy Rabbit he deserves a kiss
sad thing is he be targeted instead for not letting black people getting arrested for hiring black people
Andy Dudley what are you saying?
agreed.
Missy Rabbit , in cohoots probably.
arrested for having a job, oh dear.
julie rice
and the first thing racist people say is all black folks are lazy and need to get a job. BUT WE CANT EVEN WORK IN PEACE?!?!....
@@leahjordan5501 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Funny thing is that I was constantly harassed by the police where I grew up from the age of 13 to about 21. When I was 16 the cops could now pull me over and they did, the harassment was constant. One month I just documented every time I was pulled over. I wrote down, where I was stopped, why I was stopped, who was with me, if I was issued a ticket, the officers name, the date and time and a brief description of the events. I was pulled over 26 times in 30 days, and issued 3 tickets. This is just the thirty days I documented, but for years before this is how I lived. Knowing that if the police saw me, no matter what I was doing, I was going to be stopped, searched, and harassed illegally. Especially from 15 on. You see when I was 15 my dad suddenly died, he used to be the one who would go in and stand up for my rights and teach me to do the same. One day I was stopped by an especially awful officer here in my hometown, officer McIntyre. We were heading opposite directions on a side street. I didn't even wait for him to initiate the stop, I knew it was going to happen. So I just jumped out of the car threw up my hands and said "what now, what do you want this time?" The cop says license and insurance, I give him the info he wants. I asked why did you stop me. He said you were speeding in that parking lot. I say OK what's the speed limit and how fast was I going? Of course he had no answer because he was just making shit up like they always did, and had never clocked me. I was just so frustrated, I mean this was the 26th time in 30 days I was stopped and harassed like this, I started to cry. This piece of shit cop looks up to me and says, and I quote verbatim, "Your not so tough now that your dad's not around to protect you" In that moment I wanted to kill him. I took the list to the city attorney and when he realized that documentation existed and that there was approximately 40 different people as passengers that would tell the same story I would he called the police chief and ripped him a new asshole. The city attorney demanded action against the officers. I believe officer McIntyre was demoted from a detective to a beat cop because of this. You just have to carefully build a case against them, while trying your best to be lawful at all times and respectful of the police that are harassing you so they don't get you locked up on some manufactured bullshit in the meantime. It's like a dance, don't insult them, but also stand your ground, refuse to cooperate as much as possible while NEVER ignoring lawful orders. Build the case they can't beat and document EVERYTHING just like I did on paper but also use cell phones, back then we didn't have them. It's your only chance against crooked cops.
Very well done sir, this is exactly what everyone should do in these kinds of situations. As difficult as it may be, try to build the case as you say, and ensure that something is done.
I was lucky to have smart parents that taught me to not trust the police JUST because they were police. They were smart to prepare me to defend myself against the worst actors of every group, including police.
Jh i
Gt
Excellent strategy.
"Officer, let me clock out first."
chipmunktubetop Don't clock out! I'd be sittin' in jail "Yup, still on the clock! Gettin paid!" lol ;-)
Bullfrog 92020 correct.....
chipmunktubetop lol
chipmunktubetop best comment ever!
Don't be so hard on the cop, the dude looked very suspicious as he threw out trash.
*****
I agree.....did you notice the sneaky way the guy walked and the way he carried the trash?
***** What about the way he opened the door when he went back in the store? His body language looked very suspect.
And I mean, let's honest; he IS black.
There is no excuse for stupidity and especially racism. I will admit it looked like he was taunting the officer. You see him looking over at him but perhaps he was plain fed up of these cops continually harassing him.
get2rog I was being sarcastic. Lol.
Oh you stepped outside and your black... come with us🤦♂️😂😂
Alex Sylvestre super crazy... like I’m not surprised....
I HOPE HE WINS THE SUIT. That is astonishingly clear cut harassment.
WE NEED TO FIGHT BACK EVEN IF OUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!! Got DAMN I'm so fuckin tired of seeing my people treated this way!!!!
+NEANDERTHAL SLAYER Well maybe the Neanderthals are tired of you slaying them! Hypocrite.
move along......
you're going to lose
Oscar Jaure Who? Me or Neanderthal?
oh its coming!
Didn't read all the comments, just gonna put this out there.. But how can the cops arrest the guy for trespassing? In order to do that, the owner of the property would have to make the complaint. Considering that it's a place of business that is generally open to everyone (with possible exception of people banned by the owner), there isn't really any trespassing unless it's in an area that the person isn't authorized to go in. So arresting him for trespassing is just utter bullshit.
Well that was brought up a while ago, but its no wonder you couldnt find it here, given the almost 6,000 comments. The owner had previous signed a "Zero Tolerence Zone" agreement which let police arrest people they suspected of tresspasing. The owner eventually revoked the agreement, but the police didnt actually stop.
etherraichu What I'd like to know then is, after the first time or two, what became their reason for suspecting him of trespassing when they already knew he was employed there and most likely on duty at the time?
This reminds me of the Stanford Prison Experiment then went bad very quickly. Corruption at its finest.
+Wolfie713 👏👏👏
He wasn't arrested for trespassing. He was arrested for being black in public.
Joe ? LOL no, I'm talking about the 'claimed' charges, not the real motive.
i have had to pull white privilege to prevent 2 of my black female friends from being profiled after returning from a trip to another college. the campus police officer (who was black) assumed that of course they were doing something illegal.
The judges in those cases are wronge to
I am a African American 16 year old girl and this has been a problem ever since I was born. My question is When is it gonna ever end?
It’s ok if you guys say the N word though right 😂😂
@@blackpower6977 that's not going help it'll make it worse, when one likes me sees this and starts questioning the food saying hey your wrong and it will stop..
See it when one sits back says nothing it keeps going.
I have stepped in before, I don't have a problem what is right is right & what is wrong is wrong
@@monster91rs are you stupid?
Black Power I agree my friend I am Hispanic and I shall fight along side you may many races join your cause to fight this oppression of a country
GenjiIt is their right to use that word. Try to think with that empty space in your head.
And this happens in "the greatest country in the world" and "the land of the free".
+GTPR3 Yeah, it's the land of the free. Black people clearly aren't "the free" though.
+Nicolas Reali when will people see when the gov talks about hate crimes they r trying to turn people against each other the gov and some police pick on blacks it is wrong very wrong but if u look it's them getting white and blacks fighting each other so we don't see what they r doing NO MORE let us the people turn r eyes on the gov and police what they r doing is called waging the dog a trick so u look here and not at them we r all people we r all human so lets stand together and stop this before it's to late it dosen't matter if u r black white mexican spanish indian both kinds arabian etc united we stand divided we fall we r all brothers and sisters i love u all let's non-violently take back r country and r world
+Nicolas Reali i tihnk his dosent usse it
+GTPR3 But it *is* the greatest country in the world; I know this to be true because America says it more often than anybody.
Durzo But it's not. That's why we want to Make America Great Again.
he could have lost his job due to all those idiotic arrests.
you would normally
How do racists defend this action???
Pei K By being racist.
They defend it because their survival depends on it.
But in all fairness.. He was black at least 51% of those times.. So .. Probable cause ..
Bru stfu dont give the pigs benefit of the doupt
Maurice Clayton r/whoooosh
MrJreed1000: I’m at the park laughing at your comment and people are looking at me like I’m crazy! There are actually a couple cops here now, but I’ll probably be ok since I’m black way less than 50% of the time!
Wild On A Whim: Right? Ha ha ha!
😭😭😭😭
MrJreed1000 sometimes people don’t understand sarcasm lol I hope this cop gets what’s coming to him.
I have a friend who got a job in a little podunk town called Woodland in CA, and he is black and worked at the local bank. He would go to work and get stopped every other day for "hanging around the bank." Then after they all figured out that he worked there, he would then get stopped with regularity for phony driving infractions. He finally had to quit the job because it was such a hassle to try to get to work on time. Profiling is a serious issue in this country.
I like how the verb "get" is aligned in a perfect diagonal on every line.
got
get
get
get
Nicolas Reali You found me out grasshopper. Now explain the significance of that and you will GET the message.
Ted cox Just remembered the reply box of google+ changes the comment's max line length, so you can't even see what I meant.
Just click on the link of the video and search for your comment. You'll GET what i mean.
Nicolas Reali Ahhh. You have spoken wisely my friend. I GET it.
+Nicolas Reali That's only on your screen. On mine it is not like that at all. On my screen (a laptop), it appears in 6 lines, and the first word in each line is: I, and, "hanging, then, because, this.
Good on this business owner for having his employee's backs. Most business owners would simply fire their employee for being arrested, even though they did absolutely nothing wrong. This owner however bought 16 surveillance cameras to protect his employee which is just awesome.
Why does this have to happen to the same person literally hundreds of times before it is taken seriously?
How does this happen, it’s total insanity..!!!!!
And what about the judge who is allowing it to continue..?!?! Something very wrong here..!!!!!
Even the judge is a racist
They leave out some of the worst details.
- Earl was mentally handicapped.
- He also was forced to plead guilty to trespassing every time he was arrested because he couldn't make bail and would have had to stay in jail until a trial date, and pay court costs he couldn't afford. The one time he did try to fight the charge, he spent 20 days in jail awaiting a trial, and even though he beat the charge, the judge still issued a stay-away warning, so it wasn't just the cops, even the local court system was in on this.
- The cameras were specifically installed after 4 years of harassment, specifically to catch the cops doing it - they weren't security cameras he already had to deter thieves, they were anti-cop cameras.
- Before resorting to installing the cameras, the store owner invited Earl to come live in the store, meaning that he was getting arrested hundreds of times for trespassing not just at his workplace, but _in his own home_
- The police also arrested many customers (all black people) in the store for trespassing over several years, often while they were waiting in line at the checkout, so it wasn't just this person that they had some personal beef with.
- None of the police involved ever received any disciplinary action whatsoever.
lancer D where can I find this info. I wanna read up on it. Thanks.
How can you trespass at the store without owner consent?
No pun intended but trespassing in a store is only valid if the store keeps e.g. a blacklist of names and people, that did some rude or destructive shit.
Wow
@@oneprettycookie7446 They know very well he's not actually trespassing, but in order to fight the charge he has to post bail, get a lawyer, and come back to court, or stay in jail until his court date if he can't make bail...what they are doing is forcing him to accept the charge because he feels he has no better alternative.
There's no possible way a cop could be corrupt/stupid enough to engage in such excessive misconduct, create a paper trail via arrests/citation, and NOT EXPECT TO GET CAUGHT.
THIS IS THE BEHAVIOR OF A COP WHO KNOWS HE WON'T BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS ACTIONS. He has zero fear of consequences.
White people
right smh and will try to demonize the victim
+PSN: IgotPTSDfromCOD ARE YOU FUCKIN CRAZY????? WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND DOES THAT??
There are people who are stupid enough to think that all cops are like this.
+Belinda Kremer criminals numb nuts.
Cop 1: Its a slow night
Cop 2: Wanna go roust Earl?
Cop 1: Lets roll...
I'm white, 26 years old. I live in the Chicago metro area, the police have prolly stopped me 100+ times in the quarter century I've been alive, they actually hit me with a sqaud car and shattered my wrist when I was 12 bc of a clear airsoft gun. I'm not saying racism doesn't exist. But I think when you get down to the fundamental truth of what's actually going on, that not even 50% of it has to do with race. We have a very bad problem with the police in America, and I think it's MOSTLY a lack of accountability and oversight
And the RESULT of that lack of accountability, amongst MAAAANY other things, is racist cops getting away with racist cops. Another result for example,
is drug addicts going to jail and learning how to rob houses ect from actual criminals instead of treatment.
So why does it seem like there is no change? Because those are SYPTOMS. We're trying to kill an octopus by cutting off tiny chunks of it's tentacles. And that's just a fundamentally flawed way to try and kill an octopus 😂😂😂😂😂
Edit **being racist cops; **SYMPTOMS
@@mattvaluch1452 you can just go back and edit your comment, bro. Lmao
Something is weird here... Even the stupidest cop on earth wouldn't make the same mistake 60 times. Even if it is racist profiling, how could they do the same mistake 60 times? And the way he was picked up? Go right to him and just snatch him like this?
Would like to hear the other side to this. It just seems unreal.
well unfortunately there are some very stupid ones out there he needs to sue the whole department and the city Council and each individual cop
Consta unfortunately using logic is frowned upon. Glad to see someone could see through media bs.
Brigerre Berry I guess that makes sense. Thanks for that man!
the other side of the story really so you think there has to be something else going on because there's no way a cop with violating a person's civil rights for over a year interest in for no reason 60 times and then no other police to do anything about it if you believe that what country do you really live in cause you don't live in America
Brigerre Berry first let me apologize I ment to replay too the guy you replied to I must've click your response by mistake. Secondly the rude nature of of your comment was unessary. I bid you adieu
this is a prefect statistical example of actual racial profiling that happens every single day . this is outrageous!
Orion As I understand it, he was never actually charged with anything.
+Jonathan Nagela you are an idioy you know that? where did he get arrested for illegal dumping? you get fined not arrested and he is throwing trash by his store? you can not be arrested for that its the property of the store you idiot how can it be illegal? Before you talk shit actual review the case. He was arrested for trespassing not illegal dumping. Look up the zero tolerance zone tresspassing program.
+supersean3 they the store owner to join the program and then started to target black customers and even the employees.
Volcano, I agree that there must be something more going on...Illegal dumping of trash (I have no idea) maybe that is the issue or maybe one of the individuals involved were sleeping with one of the cops daughters....who knows.....but I have been a victim of police harassment and I think it is sad that so many comments are playing out the "race card" police harassment is an equal opportunity menace.
There are ethier 2 options. There is more to the story or there is a cop unfit for duty on duty.
News anchor: "ya can't stop someone a thousand times"
Cops: "hold my beer"
Used to happen to me when I had worked at a carwash. Cops called on me at least 3 times every single week. It was like every other time I refilled the changers, I'd go sit in my car & 5 minutes later the cops would show up. People were constantly calling & accusing my of trying to burglarize the place. Then, about 2 weeks before I quit, I was falsely detained & accused of forging my paycheck.
So this black dude gets completely screwed over while just trying to do his job and he continues to do that job day in and day out under conditions that would make most people just say fuck it and quit.
Somehow i dont think this is going to make it into the "taker" narrative at the next republican gathering. I hope his boss appreciates him. This guy is the best employee any boss could ever hope to get.
tom6612 yuup...can not even work without idiots with a badge trying to hold a person back.
I think it's amazing that the owner of the store didn't wash his hands of the whole thing and just fire his clerk. No, he stood by him and blamed the right people, the police, for doing this. This is so exhausting. Man, the police need to get rid of these people and these policies. And they wonder why people hate them.
I think it's surprising that he didn't terminate the employee, frankly.
I would love to know the follow up to this story.
Sickening!!!
We really need an update on this story.
yeah police officers wasting time would be a story this is awful either fake news or nobody believes them because of fake news
*BUG the UP LOADER, for one!!!*
Here’s an updated he has gotten arrested 6 more times for trespassing and loitering. The count has gone up since.
Chris Robinson if u did the research yourself you would find out it's not nonsense
Ryan Anderson doubts the story.
I thought they can only charge trespassing if the owner of property press charges? correct me if im wrong. this story is weird.
+Mazxlol He was arrested but not charged. They can arrest you all they want, they just cant' keep you in jail if the owner doesn't press charges.
+Mazxlol Actually, that is the law in my city. It might be different there.
+Mazxlol early on the store owner gave the cops permission to put their "crime watch" or whatever it said, sign up. After that the cops felt they had authority over the whole damn place
+SoooGood1975 They said once he had (on him) when they arrested him.I get it's illegal but come on , 56 arrests and then they let him go ? The more that meets the eye is some police officers are racists enough to arrest African-Americans just because they breathe the same air as them.
Plus they didn't quickly move on they said it as a plus . They are giving all the facts from every angle and then they say their opinion on the matter.
The owners didnt press charges thats why only once was he actually charged for something which was marijuana procession, not even trespassing charges
I’m Hispanic, adopted and raised by a white family.
At the age of 24 I had a rental car due to my car being totaled, the rental was a Convertible and on my way to work one morning I was literally going the speed limit, a cop was passing me in right hand lane, saw me and my tattoos, slowed down got behind me and pulled me over. Walked up to passenger window asked me where I was going and heard my country accent and said later!
"he was sleeping with one of the cops daughters" just about died at this lol
hey its Tuesday, lets go arrest steve again!
Lol hahaha this one was funny
Steve knows the drill
Sadly🙁☹
If you asked me that 288 times of unlawful arrest which is kidnapping in the United States which are felonies each and every officer that knowingly arrested someone unlawfully should be arrested for kidnapping in this case
Brandon Pennington yes, but who among us is going to make the arrest?
lol you have a point on that one.. the system will get them off anyway...
therugburnz internal affairs?
Sgt. Arnez Well the people need to make their own system to police them. The bloods have the crips but who does the cops have as an opposing force know what I mean? It's nothing more than people putting you in a building and stopping you with force cause theyre armed. If someone else locked someone in a building against their will and red them itd be kidnapping to the law but they do it to people they deem evil. If the people deem a cop unjustified they should lock the cop up even If their teammates deem them justified which naturally, as we see all the time is the case. There needs to be a rational and reasonable discussion about power distribution we the people put cops on this non existent pedestal of oh no we can't gang up on him even If he's in the wrong ideology. If more people were armed and we created an understanding with the police like if 3 cops are beating someone senseless and the crowd just watches like Wtf beat those cops asses if it's justified. If a cop is going to shoot someone who isn't a threat and they're running for their life a bystander should shoot the cop to save someone's life. Its all about force. United the people are powerful more people should own guns. Not SJWs but reasonable rational people. We need to create an equally powerful police force to oppose the police and be real about right and wrong but it's almost impossible to pull off
Yesssssss!!!!!!!! I 👂🏽 you
That's insane. That has to be stopped. What does he has against him? 258 times being stopped? 56 times being arrest at his job? That is totally crazy!
What's the update on this situation?
It's now 2018, 16 May.
Did shop keeper win his lawsuit?
he just like OK right back too jail for taking trash out
albert johnson - I was thinking the same thing. He seemed used to it.
And that's a damn shame
Ok, I have over 17+ years in law enforcement and I do not know of any state where you can file trespass charges on someone or arrest them for it if they work there or live there. And some courts have even up held that you can not be trespassed from the only hospital in your town or from a bank that you have an active account at if that is the only branch in your town. As well as from any government buildings.
This is 100% illegal and this needs to be released to all local and state media and yes, they need to file civil action against the police.
Just a follow up to this story, in June 2015 Sampson and several other unfairly persecuted men in the area won a court settlement against the MGPD. The chief of MGPD resigned a month later. The police officers had been given a quota to search/detain black males from ages 15-30 regardless of probable cause. Sampson had been stopped and detained multiple times, but it exponentially increased when his boss complained to the City about the cops behavior, that is when they started showing up every day and arresting Sampson, basically to try and drive him out of the area and to punish the store owner. They used the fact that Sampson has plead guilty to trespassing on the stores property on one occasion, which he only did because it meant they would release him and he wouldn't have to go to court, to arrest him time and again instead of just searching him.
Lmao he just walked with him, hes like oh were doing this AGAIN
I know. Noone even talked to each other. The cops goes straight to Earl and off Earl goes. Other workers just looking on. Just the weekly Earl pick up. It's terrible but frickin hilarious
Must be a "non-approved" trash bag violation...Very serious...
Oh... you stepped outside and are black..... GUILTY.... of ... ?? living in the USA.
Walking while black.
GiarkReleos i got stop for just walking my dog when i was a teenager.
I think that's a bit too far. You are innocent until proven guilty. Clearly there is just A) more to the story or B) a bad bad officer or officers??
I don't think this defines all officers by any means or even the majority of officers.
You're guilty for being alive. Give them a minute, they'll take of that too.
That cop said welp its Sunday we need that weekly headcount quota
this is hilarious. no wonder only idiots and the poor live in usa while smarter/wealthier yanks flee to civilized countries with human rights.
You mean the rights they're slowly taking from us everyday?
Wow, excellent reporting you all are outstanding
This is clearly harassment. A question you guys didn't ask was how can the police legally arrest someone for trespassing when there is no complaint from the property owner? The cops don't own or control the property, so where are they saying the complaint is coming from?
Look how compliant he was. He was like "i know the drill", so messed up.
Any updates on this story?
Great work. Never Served and Protect
More like Harrass and Collect .
I'm white and this seriously pisses me off as well.The dude is an American citizen for crien out loud! He can go where he wants as long as he's not doing anything wrong,but obviously because of this circus clown with a badge,gun and backing of the state,that citizen can not.If there truly is not more to this story then this makes me feel ashamed of my country.
WE NEED AN UPDATE!!!
I think the man that was rested that many times should be filing his own lawsuit against the city.
I don't think it's true that this guy has no legal recourse just because he can't afford an attorney. If he's been arrested 57 times with absolutely no cause then that's an insane case of harrassment. Aren't there civil attorneys that would take this case and sue the department? The attorney would get paid when they win the case. It's not legal to arrest someone without a reason to. Period.
legal representation is a poor replacement for speaking for yourself and knowing the truth of court process
What about just shooting the crooked cops?
Seriously, why isn't the local militia looking into these tyrannical police officers?
one extreme deserves another ;-)
He absolutely has legal recourses.
the ACLU will send a team of lawyers for this guy, its a slam dunk case.
I am sorry but this is the new way the law is.
Even if you fill out all legal forms right, (lawyers have forms for every action they do!) so You can try to counter what the lawyer dose in court. THAT dose not count any more! For the law says you need a lawyer to fill out the right forms or they say you are practicing the LAW!!! The judge dose not have to lesson to you! Yes this is happen in all poor places! No one takes cases like this any more because there is too much corruption in the system and the lawyer know they will just get over ruled! We the poor no long have voice in court!
I'm from Miami and I know this shit happens often.. I got stopped 3 times in les than 20 mins apart
Kiing milli Those Demokkkrat cops think they are still slave owners as only Demokkkrats were.
7 years ago and this is still going on and getting Worst. These are the Saddest Days left in America 😭😭😭😭
Officer should be fired for harassing a person. Should be fired for arresting a man with no probable cause.
It's not only black people that get harassed.
I lived in Kissimmee over ten years ago and would go to the store late on my days off because I worked overnight. I was stopped twice and both times they claimed my license plate lights were out. The first time they let me go and I headed straight to the store to get replacement bulbs. In the parking lot I looked at my lights, and they were all working.
The second time I was stopped, the cop gave me the same excuse, and I told him I just replaced the bulbs. H walked over to his car and immediately walked back and gave me back my ID.
A year before that, I was dating a girl that was going to a cooking school in Kissimmee. I used my sister's car, dropped her off, made a right on 192, changed lanes and drove under a traffic light. A cop stopped me.
He told me that I blew past the stop sign before 192. I told him there is no stop sign there. He told me that I cut someone off when I turned onto 192. I told him as soon as I realized I cut them off (the road has a curve), I changed lanes. He THEN told me I ran a red light. I told him the light was just turning yellow when I went under it.
He walked around the car and said the license plate was a couple days expired. He HAS to give me a ticket for something if he stops me.
Many cops in Florida are dicks.
your license plate can be a few days expired. you replace it within the month. that it expires that cop gave you an unlawful ticket.
Nobody is saying that it's only black people that get harassed by cops. But black folks experience FAR GREATER proportion (for no reason).
LibsRockU I know that it's not just black people who get harassed. But they get harassed way more than most others.
***** And that's the problem with society.
craze1701 That's the problem with america.
Both the chief and deputy chief of this police department have resigned as a result of this blatant racial profiling and harassment.
that is not enough they should have shoot themselves in the head that would make me believe the police are remorseful
source ?
mikey tran source please!! lies,, anti white lies!
Earl Turner
Google is your friend....
www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/11/250310890/miami-area-police-chief-resigns-amid-charges-of-racial-profiling
Earl Turner Jacob Caswell And here is the source for the deputy chief's resignation.
www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/12/3931505/miami-gardens-top-cop-is-stepping.html
Could you all follow up on this story? This is crazy!
Any update on that?
Hey could we get a follow up on this. I want to know if anything has been done about it.
the store owner sealed up a great case for a lawsuit against the police and local government. I hope the victims' lives get much better, thanks to a diligent and caring employer (yea, fuck, they DO exist!).
From the "Alex Saleh" name I guess he's of, maybe, Christian Arab extraction. "Arab". I wonder if the harassment wasn't against HIM. He looses money, work time, he must have had one hell of a turnover in employees. Plus, the cops surely arrested costumers too the times they couldn't nab an employee. If I were arrested for no reason going to a store twice, I wouldn't step near it again, nor would my friends and family.
AlMoxtar
yea it is bad for business, and that's the key to business that a lot of wealthy corporations forgot. It's about taking care of your people. That includes: your employees and customers. and if cops are harassing both and you aren't doing anything, it's gonna bite you in the ass. and fortunately this business owner knew well to record this on his property and file suit.
Anyone know what became of this story?
Would genuinely like to know.
Is there an update to this? If the cop stopped or got fired?
Is it not the Property owner who decides on who is "trespassing"?
What business is it of the police to decide who is "trespassing"?
Maybe the Property owner needs to arrest the police for trespassing on his private property!
that was my thought too. Maybe the property owner should have pulled a restraining order on the cops. Nah just sue the bastards
writerconsidered That problem hooks into what Cenk said, which is they don't have the money to hire a team of lawyers. The business owner did the best thing he thought he could to prove there was something actually occurring by setting up the cameras, seeing as his word only against the police, who do you think a jury would believe? I mean fuck, that part where the cop just waltzes right in and pulls aside the man who took out the trash... who would believe that without the footage? I still don't even know how or why with that, he didn't look suspicious at all to me. Not even a little bit. It's just a black guy taking out the trash, why is that so terrifying? Ooooh nooooooo he didn't separate the metals and the plastics! He's going to be the downfall of our country!
TheCakeIsALieGxG
I agree with you and now that he has the footage he should hire lawyers to sue the bastards with the footage.
The Owner signed an agreement with the police to remove trespassers. He later claimed that Earl Sampson was an employee but has since then failed to show any documented proof he's ever worked for the company.
its sad really its just a small time business. how often do small time store owners who hire someone from the local neighborhood to help out at a store to keep them off the street keep paperwork. He probably isn't even getting paid much anyway. I mean I've had jobs where I just show up then do work then get paid. the government jobs that I had I did sign papers and wavers and what not but that's a different story.
'Murica.
Clearly that employee should stop trespassing at his own job. He's lucky the cop didn't stand his ground against all that thuggery he was engaged in while taking out the trash.
The psychological cost of this type of harrassment is insidious and beyond reasonable for any human being 😶
How do you arrest someone for trespassing without a complaint pressing charges???
Let's here it for the fine officers of Miami Gardens Police Department. Hmm... I wonder how many other black males go through this very same thing all over the country without cameras catching this injustice.
Playfulpanthress
It always has been.
How unfair!!!!!! This man is trying to make an honest living
I know it's been some time since this story came out, any news as to what happened with the lawsuit?
That's TORTUROUS harassment. Hope he wins/won millions - he certainly deserves it
so any follow up on this story??
"Please don't taze me sir!!
"Officer requesting Backup at 7/11" !!
He's lucky he didn't get shot and killed.
+Mud Sh-sh-shark Officer requiring backup and can't carry all these doughnuts alone.
Imagine if he got fed up (rightfully so)and fought back .it woulda been over for him
I see this was a few years back, any follow ups?
This makes me cry - I'm over whelming sad on viewing this, thus producing violence thoughts in me!
This is the result if making cops super citizens. 1) They are armed, and trained to use their guns, 24 hours a day, yet it is a greater crime to kill one if them than an unarmed citizen. 2) It is a felony to physically attack these armed people. 3) According to the Supreme Court these people don't have to know what they are doing. They are not required to know what law they are hassling or arresting you for. They can decide that what you are doing should be illegal and arrest you. 4) A
lot of them are criminals in sales is pay attention to the news watch them on the street.The blue wall of Silence: when cops do this how doesn't that make them accessories after the fact?
When they themselves are venal why are people surprised when the cops show that, I've had off duty cops tell me this, they believe that the regular law abiding citizen is just a criminal that hasn't been caught yet.
Randy Claywell is all that stuff true?
For the people that wanna bring up the knockout game you do realize this makes up some teens in atlanta this is not worldwide so don't try to lump all black teens in with each other based off of teens living in atlanta. It seems like some of you don't wanna don't look for a solution to racial profiling instead some of you wanna keep it going and make all black men suffer for what a few have done. Try to gain some empathy and realize this is what black men have to deal with every damn day of our lives.
How do you arrest someone for trespassing and no one has complained? Doesn't someone have to call and ask for the cops to arrest him for trespassing? This makes no sense. Where is the police chief?
It's ridiculous (harassment) police behavior like this that makes it hard to give the police any benefit of the doubt or support.
how do you trespass at a gas station? i mean, unless he's been ban from being there there should be no reason for the officer to arrest someone. grated this man works there its pretty insane! its such BS sick of officers racially profiling. also i have to wonder if its the same officer each time?
Right! I thought the owner would have to press charges?
he is thats what they said anyways. because the officers are harassing his employees and its bs. the fact he has it on camera is a big thing but i wonder how the law will see it since that one man in particular had that one minor charge? as BS as that is, i wonder if they'll say "yea but there was that one time..." type excuse.
The store owner didn't pay "protection" money to the cops.
This simple harassment and he and the store owner needs to be thoroughly compensated! Sue them into bankruptcy!
There's only one way any true justice can come out of this:
Massive punitive damages coming out of the pockets of those individual police officers, the prosecutor and judge involved with this harassment.
What the fuck, going inside a store is trespassing?!
Murica
loll
I am pretty sure to be arrested or even stopped for trespassing there has to be a complaint by the business or the private property owner.
When police write a "trespass warning" for a person and a location, then they can charge the person with trespassing if they go to that spot. I was once given a trespass warning for 23rd St in Austin, TX. I thought the trespass warning was nullified when I was not indicted for the charge that went with the warning. I later was arrested while playing chess on 23rd St.
For the longest time I believed that racial profiling was more of a subconscious thing, the existence of which only becomes obvious from statistical analysis of large sets of crime data, but for the most part couldn't necessarily be proven in the case of a specific individual.
This story completely throws that out the window though. I mean for fucks sake there is *NO WAY* you can honestly rationalize this kind of egregious discrimination.
racial profiling can happen both ways i think. some of it is subconscious and some is a planned out effort.
bob zimbobway
Racial profiling cannot happen both ways. Idiot, How can 11% of the population profile 60% percent of the population? Do some of you people even think.
Nikki .Nichole wtf is your problem? i always support the fact that racism is a big problem in america, unlike alot of people in the tyt comments. and you're gonna try and attack me? it can, and does happen both ways. prove to me how it doesnt.
bob zimbobway racism can't happen both ways
this is ridiculous! I'm glad this store owner installed cameras to show this. That is just wrong.
I wonder why I can't find any updates about what happened with the lawsuit this guy must have filed.
Am I really the only one who sees that there is more to this than just harassment , there is something personal going on beef between cops and somebody
David Gearardo maybe this guy is refusing to pay tax to the cops.
David Gearardo The repeated abuse of power is harassment whether the cause is personal or not.
Nope. Cops just do this shit all the time. It's been happening to my friend's son for years. They just pick a random black person and stalk them. Once she wore his sweatshirt to the convenience store and they grabbed her by the back of her neck. When they pulled down her hood, they literally said, "Sorry, we thought you were your son." She has sued the police department numerous times, won, and it's still happening!
I think they're actually moving now.
maybe the cop was bullied in school by an African American
@@Ilikefrogs.. that's terrible. Aaargh!