Quantum Windbag
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Wrong. And he was given a warning.
By who? A guy claiming to be a cop when all he really was is a regulator on a power trip?
Trespassing is a violation of private property, police can only enforce it if they can prove that the property owner does not want anyone at all on their property, which is impossible with a business, or if they have a specific complaint against an individual on file from the property owner. Like I said, ask a cop.
He displayed a badge. Actually if there are "posted" signs or "no loitering signs" and the owner complains is enough to justify an arrest. But in this case I think it's more logical the cop was paid security for the liquor store.
I have a few badges myself, none of them make me a cop anywhere outside the role playing I used to do as a child. Can you show me where the owner complained? The guy accosted him because he was drinking tea, not because he was loitering. The offical defense is that he was evasive and uncooperative, which is perfectly legal, not that they had a compliant from the property owner that the guy was not welcome on the property.
Tell me something, how is it logical to assume that an undercover agent of the Alcohol Enforcement Division is working as a security guard? Wouldn't it be more logical to assume that he was there because the store was being investigated for violating the law?