Houston Police Caught on Video Kicking in Door to Business, Stealing Cash

[Sunlei]

Houston, TX — Two Houston Police officers were caught on camera kicking down the door of local business owner Marcquette Jones last Wednesday. Jones, the 36-year-old owner of The South Side Game Room, says this isn’t the first time the officers unlawfully entered his business. According to the business owner, the two cops paid him the first visit on January 20, claiming they were there to “check building code compliance.”

Jones refused to let them in when they wouldn’t show identification, but the officers forcefully entered anyway. They cuffed the business owner and slammed him down onto one of the pool tables to illegally search him. “I don’t need no search warrant,” one of the cops reportedly said. Jones was counting the business’s money at the time, which he asked the officers to let him gather it and put it away. The officers not only not only declined, but stole the $34,000 in cash and arrested Jones for marijuana possession. (my note- 21 grams of pot in his pocket)

After serving a 10-day sentence for possession of a plant, Jones requested his $34,000 back. The Houston Police Department returned only $10,800, a third of what he is owed, with no explanation.

“No warrant, no sergeant, no captain, no lieutenant counted my money. At least $34,000 and they only reported $10,800,” Jones said.

watch these corrupt police in action video here- http://thefreethoughtproject.com/video-cops-caught-breaking-local-business/

[zeemike]

1. Well get used to it folks.

Because they are the law.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. "Nice place you got here...

be a shame if anything happened to it". How is this any different than mafia tactics?

[Sunlei]

3. These police are even worse then Mafia. They must have done this a bunch of times, look

how practiced they are with the break in of the closed business.

I bet those kind of corrupt cash hunting police have thousands of dollars of cash spending, far exceeding their income.

[rgbecker]

4. Why wasn't I surprised to see that Jones is African American.

There are a lot questions about this story, like what kind of games were going on that would generate $34,000 in cash but, Jesus, what's so hard about getting a warrant.

[hobbit709]

5. Popular game room at $1 a whack, doesn't take long to run up some serious cash.

I know some people in the business. Some games can easily take in $500-1000 a day each.

[JonLP24]

6. Pretty hard without probable cause, exhaustion, etc

Because they have 0, nada, to support the charge (where are the defense attorneys at is my question VIDEO for chrisakes) much less a search & seizure but they are obviously not interested in that. They just wanted to do a robbery.