After watching the Starbuck's Tapes.

[EffieBlack]

108. "They have a private property owner who wants people gone who are not going"

Wrong.

They had a manager of a business open to the general public who accused two men of being trespassers. Because the owner or manager has no legal right to eject a member of the public merely because they "want them gone," but can only have them removed if they engage in very specific wrongful acts defined by law, the police were first required to confirm that the two men did indeed engage in such acts before using their power to arrest them and deprive them of their liberty.

The cops did not do that. They merely took the word of the manager, who was either confused or lying, and even though the men were willing to leave, the police refused to let them go because, as they said "it's too late for that."

As a result, two men who'd been in the restaurant for two minutes before the police were called, weren't asked to leave before being confronted by 6 police officers, and weren't allowed to leave, were arrested for "defiant trespass," charged with "violent trespass," put in handcuffs and thrown in jail - all because a manager "wanted them gone."

That's not how the law works. And you shouldn't be defending it.