STAR TELERGAM - Owner of Arlington Pool Hall Esther Gaona 2-27- (2)
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Starilblegram.com /local
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Gaona saYs theextends to lrerand o.tstomers.
schrotk (ff r- Each daYher Nerv York Aw-bnr opens, Esthersaitl, she slips on aof gloves and beglnssearching underilliard tables and be -the eight-llner ma-fot drugs or drugthat cus-have left be-
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ThursdaY, FebruarY 27,2014+
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BF ebruary 27, 2oA
Billares Mi Tlerla fornearly 17 Years, said sheused to only worry abouttmderage kJds ttYlng tobuy beer or custotnerswith guns or knlves look-ing for trouble. But sincepollce arrested a lvomenlast April for selling drugshside the east Arlfutgtonbar, Gaona said, officersheve been harasslng her'her employees end hercustomers ln seerch ofother dealers."No one wants to cometo a bar wlren theY knowpolice wlll come flashlnglight at thelr hPad artd
stalt searehing for no ree-son," sald Gaone, who saldshe's lost 6o Percent ofhpr sales slnce fanuary. "ldon't krow what to do. Ican't close mY Pool hall.This ls all I heve to sut-vivel'Earlier this molrth,c,oo,-"'t"atheful,ng-EsthelGaonasaystlreproblemsatherbusltrssslatedJ*.#r:Lthe iuto u4retlter officers areLatin violating citY PolicY'izenshasal- "She lust waltts thelnsked the de- to leave her alotle' She haslnvestigate lost an awful lot of mon-reasons to arrest them her complehrts of-harass- eyi' saitl L]co leyes,. ai"-Jn"r.*"Ga searches ment, racial profillng and longtiure LULAC leader,;.;tf*;J Ml Tlerra, oq tntirnidatlotr ord to look M"'onPooLHALL'GB V1
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.1 vqvrr$ r-v '_---' ' statements to t}re cpool hall r:" IIEFL if:"1"#:j:T;,y'#Irlrl lrErr two patorrs who w1t-nessed one of the seatches'contirrued from lB includhg a male customerw -Fl': Al-y-'it who said he was falsely ac -cused of drug Possession',,our people are kind of .i,"*1.' ,'F,