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In reply to the discussion: Black man blocked from entering NJ gym where hes a paid member and even the cops are confused [View all]Egnever
(21,506 posts)once you are asked to leave and you refuse the cops are left with little recourse. 
and it also doesn't matter from the cops perspective what others were or weren't doing. You can not force yourself on a business. They can ask you to leave for whatever reason they like. When you refuse to do so you become a trespasser and when the cops arrive and you still refuse to leave you will be arrested. 
They tried for a long time to get them to just go and they refused. 
I don't think there is any question the managers decision was racially motivated but that has no bearing whatsoever on what the cops are required to do. 
The la fitness situation is entirely different in that the man had a membership that gives him access to the building. In the end the manager terminated the contract in order to have them removed. 
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