Police arrested a man 56 times at work for trespassing.

Florida Police have arrested Earl Sampson 56 times at his job for trespassing. CNN's John Zarrella reports.

[finlayl]

Cop1: It's been pretty quiet tonight
Cop2: Want to go arrest earl again?
Cop1: You know it

[johnwater]

The owner installed cameras because of the police, you dont hear that much.

[ianbattles]

They knew he wasn't trespassing after the FIRST arrest; *every subsequent arrest was either malice or extreme incompetence.*

[ScrewgeMcF_ck]

It should also be noted: even though the cameras were only installed in 2011/2012, the owner has been by Earl’s side, fighting for him from the very beginning. He’d known Earl since he was 14, and knew he was an upstanding guy.
He’d tried multiple times to report the injustice for multiple individuals targeted, but was only met with harsher profiling.
What’s worse for Earl, he ultimately had to plead guilty to all the trespassing charges… in order to get out of jail… for something which was literally proven to be an abuse of the system. His record was expunged later on, but that’s not even close to the point.

[firetopman]

This is the most specific form of racism I've ever seen. It's Earlism.

[ilovefood]

Cop: "Hmm feelin cute, might arrest Earl today"

[alec]

"Kinda slow day today, sergeant. What should we do?"
"Earl?"

[dirtpoorchris]

So they arrest this guy 56 times for doing nothing wrong... Then use the statistics of 56 arrests to patrol his neighborhood even more.

[tillandsiashaworthias]

Credit to the store owner that didn't fire Earl to stop this but instead, he bought a security cam to catch the police!

[DxCHOSENxONE]

New recruit criteria:
1. Pass police academy
2. Arrest Earl

[rugbynimbus]

"Statistically, one American is arrested every 58 seconds -- and tonight we're going to meet him."

[ianbattles]

56 trespassing arrests *at his place of employment* and NOBODY at the police department/courthouse thought that was suspicious???

[mahmoodmumtaz]

Is he the only black guy in this town?

[DrunkPanda]

“High” crime area?
Is Earl 80% of the “High” crime.

[DunderHead.]

You know it's a problem when business owners have to put cameras in their businesses to protect themselves from the police.

[thea_therian]

the owner is amazing for supporting his employee and even buying the surveillance cameras in order to protect him, boss of the year award 👊

[helengarcillano]

Man.. I'm bored, let's go arrest Earl.

[gatherer]

"The store owner installed security cameras to catch the police" I'm dying over here, this is what it's coming to.

[mcsegeek]

"We investigated ourselves and we determined that we did nothing wrong."

[theugliestbarnacle]

Y’know after like the 3rd or 4th time of cops getting called on earl at his place of work, you’d think they’d be like “oh that’s earl, he works there”