Florida police accused of racial profiling after stopping man 258 times
Source: Daily News
A Florida police department is facing racial profiling charges after stopping a man 258 times and repeatedly charging him with trespassing at the convenience store where he works.
At least once a week for the last four years, Earl Sampson, 28, has been stopped by Miami Gardens police and searched more than 100 times, jailed 56 times and arrested for trespassing 62 times, records show.
The only conviction he's had, according to his lengthy records, is for marijuana possession.
"They created this record," Sampson's boss and the owner of 207 Quickstop, Alex Saleh, told the Daily News Friday. "He's a good guy, a humble guy, a quiet guy. He's not a convicted felon."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/police-stop-man-258-times-charge-trespassing-work-article-1.1526422
CFLDem
(2,083 posts)He must have the patience of saints! Surprised he hasn't gone postal.
WowSeriously
(343 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)that is what he knows and he chooses life.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)I wonder if the AG might be able to help.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)racial profiling, sounds more like organized harassment to see if he'd snap one of those times. I hope he gets a major settlement. This article needs to go viral and the feds need to get involved in this one... serious violation of his civil rights and more.
devils chaplain
(602 posts)The cops have to know who he is by now. They're fucking with him... because they can.
Lasher
(27,597 posts)There has to be more to this story.
Edit: Oh, wait. Read the article a little and saw this:
Sampson is not the only target. Other employees are being harassed, and customers too. Looks like racism to me, but this does not rule out the possibility that cops have taken a special interest in Samson.
Notice in the above excerpt they got the word 'alleged' in the wrong place. It's a much overused term in what passes for journalism these days but at least they could get it in the right place in the sentence.
Ian David
(69,059 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I guess that's not true, sadly.
WowSeriously
(343 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I can't wait until we start packing the courts. Maybe Alito will retire or Thomas will have a major scandal.
WowSeriously
(343 posts)However, maybe Scalia's dementia will become too obvious to ignore anymore.
Baitball Blogger
(46,733 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)just because he was wearing a hoodie.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Incitatus
(5,317 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)Read the story. The police are harassing the owner.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)That was my point. The owner doesn't care about trespassing because he was an employee. They are even abusing the owner himself.
'In addition to video appearing to show Sampson being grabbed by an officer while taking out the trash and at another time searched against a wall, Saleh accuses them of searching throughout his store without a warrant.'
This is blatant and inexcusable abuse of power. With all the crime in Miami, the police are wasting their time on this, really? I know there are good cops out there, but this kind of crap really makes me sick. We need more people in authority with the integrity to stop this kind of stuff.
QuestForSense
(653 posts)You'd think they'd be all over something as egregious as this.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)The CCC
(463 posts)The first time was probably an honest mistake. The second time it was racial profiling. After that it is just plain harassment and false arrest. Simple firing is too good for those officers. Serious jail time, in general population, is in order.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)Miami Gardens defends cops accused of harassing, rousting stores clientele
Mayor Oliver Gilbert said the allegations made by Saleh about police misconduct are untrue. The city has reached out to him in the past and he hasnt been cooperative, he said.
We have repeatedly asked the owner of the store to provide information so we can investigate his allegations and he has refused, Gilbert said.
However, public records, obtained by the Herald, show that Saleh did provide videos to the city. The state attorney also issued a subpoena for the videos last year, and Saleh and his attorney complied. Its not clear what, if any, action was taken. The state prosecutors records were not yet available on Friday.
I gave them seven videos, Saleh said. I gave them to the internal affairs commander, Gary Smith.
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)alternative realities and being able to cross from one universe to another. How else can it be explained?
Beacool
(30,250 posts)"During one of Sampson's arrests Sampson being just one of Saleh's alleged employees and customers subjected to police harassment he's seen refilling a cooler inside the store when an officer walks up beside him.
"They ask him, 'What are you doing here?'" recalled Saleh. "He said, 'I work here.' The clerk said he works here. I said, 'I'm the owner, let him go. I work here.' The officer said, 'Yeah right.'
"So he has more power than me!"
According to Saleh, it doesn't stop there.
In addition to video appearing to show Sampson being grabbed by an officer while taking out the trash and at another time searched against a wall, Saleh accuses them of searching throughout his store without a warrant."
It also looks like they are going after the owner of the store. Why are they showing up at his place over and over? I hope that they win their suit and get lots of money from the city.
KG
(28,751 posts)they da best!
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Legal mafia, imho.
Aaron8418
(18 posts)I have to say i feel really bad for the guy, that's really messed up and wrong and completely stupid. I swear officers need to be trained better and better evaluated. I would definitely sue them for as much as i can get. What goes around, comes around ass hole!!
Wernothelpless
(410 posts)give all of his employees QUICKSTOP tshirts? ... then they'd all be wearing a uniform ...
I'd like to see these PIGS shake down employees wearing matching QUICKSTOP shirts ...
http://www.wordans.ch/celebrites-t-shirt-quick-stop-groceries-clerks-680232
Zorro
(15,740 posts)progree
(10,908 posts)I'm glad law enforcement had the persistence to bring this criminal to justice.
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