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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
I still don't think it's been clarified as to whether the men were asked to leave before the police were called. If they were and refused, that's why the police were called and why they were arrested. I'd find it hard to believe the police would come if a store manager just called and asked them to come. They'd probably have to claim some kind of disturbance or crime. The police dispatcher would have asked them something like, "Did you ask them to leave? Are they refusing or causing a problem?" They don't just send police there for the asking. If the police then repeated the request to leave they got all, "Why, what did we do," then that's still trespassing.
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No, the Police were called after they were asked and refused to leave.
No one including them is disputing that.
The question is, WHY were they asked to leave.
According to witnesses they were just sitting there waiting, not causing a disturbance and doing the same thing that other people were doing, using the facility without having purchased anything yet.