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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My girldfriend is a public defender in Orlando.  She has often mentioned that when police pull over young white teenagers who have pot on them, they are given a warning.  Sometimes the parents are called.  However, when black teenagers are pulled over and there is a scent of pot swirling through the air, the police call in a dog for a probable cause search.  That kid is arrested.

Anybody been following that case in Miami about the Black man arrested 42 times for trespassing.  He has been arrested for trespassing at a convenience store.  The kicker is he works at the store.  I wonder if he can sue and win against Miami PD for false arrest and harassment.  [/quote]

I was wrong, he was arrested 62 times at his place of employment.  All of these arrests created a very long rap sheet.  So now, when he goes to apply for a job and the application asks, "have you ever been arrested", he has to say yes 62 times.  He has only been convicted of one misdemeanor possession of marijuana.  I think that is a drug that the vast majority of Americans have tried once.  Some were lucky to get a warning.  Others never caught.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/police-stop-man-258-times-charge-trespassing-work-article-1.1526422

http://www.webpronews.com/employee-arrested-62-times-for-trespassing-at-work-2013-11

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There's something seriously fishy with that story.  How can you be arrested for trespassing where you work, and how would that EVER stick in any court of law?  And OF COURSE he can sue and win if it's actually true - and if it's actually true, I'm sure there would be attorneys lined up around the corner and down the block chomping at the bit to take that case because it's a big money slam dunk.  Something else is missing from the story.  Something else is not being told there.[/quote]

Apparently lawyers have lined up to take the case.  There is a pending Section 1983 lawsuit against the police department.  [/quote]

Lawsuit.  If that's a "unicorn" then yes, I believe in it.

If cops in this day and age are actually so stupid as to arrest someone 62 times for "trespassing" at their place of work when they were supposed to be there, then they will get their asses handed to them and they will be shamed in national media for it, not to mention a massive award to come out of it.  Guy probably will not only have his rap sheet expunged of 62 arrests, he will probably be awarded enough cash to not have to work again anyways by the time a jury is done with the PD.  Most cops know better, and the few throwbacks in the system here and there that don't yet will, soon enough.[/quote]

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