Cops gone wild – where they arrest anyone who has ever criticized them. Like a convenience store clerk who regularly gets arrested for trespassing WHILE HE IS AT WORK!
Earl Sampson has been stopped and questioned by Miami Gardens police 258 times in four years.
He’s been searched more than 100 times. And arrested and jailed 56 times.
Despite his long rap sheet, Sampson, 28, has never been convicted of anything more serious than possession of marijuana.
Miami Gardens police have arrested Sampson 62 times for one offense: trespassing.
Almost every citation was issued at the same place: the 207 Quickstop, a convenience store on 207th Street in Miami Gardens.
But Sampson isn’t loitering. He works as a clerk at the Quickstop.
So how can he be trespassing when he works there?
via In Miami Gardens, store video catches cops in the act – Miami Gardens / Opa-locka – MiamiHerald.com.
The convenience store owner had to install video cameras to track the cops. What did he find?
Saleh was so troubled by what he saw that he decided to install video cameras in his store. Not to protect himself from criminals, because he says he has never been robbed. He installed the cameras — 15 of them — he said, to protect him and his customers from police.
Since he installed the cameras in June 2012 he has collected more than two dozen videos, some of which have been obtained by the Miami Herald. Those tapes, and Sampson’s 38-page criminal history — including charges never even pursued by prosecutors — raise some troubling questions about the conduct of the city’s police officers.
The videos show, among other things, cops stopping citizens, questioning them, aggressively searching them and arresting them for trespassing when they have permission to be on the premises; officers conducting searches of Saleh’s business without search warrants or permission; using what appears to be excessive force on subjects who are clearly not resisting arrest and filing inaccurate police reports in connection with the arrests.
via In Miami Gardens, store video catches cops in the act – Miami Gardens / Opa-locka – MiamiHerald.com.
Salah, the store owner believes that the drive to arrest the poor black neighbors is driven in part by the need to have arrest statistics.
Saleh theorizes that it’s an easy way for the department to make it seem like they are making a large number of arrests.
“They have specialized units to combat crime and they need to bring in the numbers to justify those units,’’ Saleh said.
via In Miami Gardens, store video catches cops in the act – Miami Gardens / Opa-locka – MiamiHerald.com.
Life of refinement 