Store owner installs surveillance cameras to spy on police

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This shows what some people have gone through in dealing with officers. Time to end the systematic harassment.


by Chris Matyszczyk
@ChrisMatyszczyk
November 22, 2014 8:18 PM PST

Miami Gardens, Fla., convenience store owner Alex Saleh decided he'd try. He'd become vexed at what he saw as police harassment of his employees and even his customers.

So he installed surveillance cameras, with the specific intention of watching the detectives.

He'd become frustrated, you see, about the possibly not coincidental number of times that his employee, Earl Sampson, had been stopped and questioned by police officers -- 258 times over a four-year period does seem a little like overkill. These included 100 searches and 56 jailings. As for convictions, well, they were only for marijuana possession.

Saleh told the Miami Herald it seemed odd that Sampson had been arrested 62 times for trespassing, when the vast majority of offenses were outside the very same Quickstop.

http://www.cnet.com/news/store-owner-installs-surveillance-cameras-to-spy-on-police/#ftag=YHF65cbda0

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1. That means this employee got stopped every 6 days on average over a 4 year period. nt

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2. How can arrest for tresspassing be warranted, without the owner's consent?

Can't there be some unlawful arrest charge made against the police?

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3. Apparently these days, charges against police are

hard to come by no matter what they do. I don't know why or when this began but it is becoming quite apparent.

I am guessing that is why the owner had to install cameras to try and help his employees and customers. I wonder if it has helped. Maybe. The police don't seem to like being watched.

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4. Wow. Interesting. (no text)