A series of YouTube videos purportedly showing a patron of the Hair of the Dog Saloon being targeted by an officer for loitering on city property is once again raising questions of whether police are unfairly targeting the city’s North End.
The videos, titled, “Middletown CT police illegally ticket bar patron then steal witness’s camera,” totaling 11 minutes long, of a man referred to as “John” and uploaded on Aug. 16, were taken by patrons inside the Main Street bar.
Loitering has been an issue of debate in the North End, after residents complained about an alleged crackdown on pedestrians by city police.
The YouTube videos, uploaded by an individual identified only as “neonxdisease,” are accompanied by this statement: “The customer was pulled from INSIDE the bar area, away from his drink, to be searched without cause and then ticketed for LOITERING when the police could not find any other reason to cite him.”
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