Earl Sampson's 258-Stop Lawsuit Settles

Between 2008 and 2013, Miami Gardens police stopped and questioned a Florida man named Earl Sampson 258 times, searched him more than 100 times, and jailed him 56 times. Officers also charged him 62 times with trespassing, usually at the 207 Quickstop convenience store where he worked as a clerk. Store owner Alex Saleh installed 15 surveillance cameras to document the encounters, and Sampson joined ten others in a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the city. The parties settled the case under undisclosed terms in June 2015.

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