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Earl Sampson is a Miami Gardens, Florida man who, beginning in 2008, was repeatedly arrested by police for trespassing while he was at his own place of employment. The Miami Gardens police department convinced the owner of the Quickstop convenience store, Alex Saleh, to sign up for "The Zero-Tolerance Zone Trespassing Program".

Afterwards police began targeting black customers who were standing in line to buy items at the store. Police officers also focused their attention on Sampson, whose only criminal conviction was marijuana possession. During a four year period Sampson was questioned 258 times, searched over 100 times, arrested for trespassing 62 times, and jailed 56 times; the majority of these events occurred at the Quickstop.

Sampson pleaded guilty to the trespassing charges filed against him since pleading not guilty would have meant remaining in jail, posting bond, meet trial dates, and spending lots of money.