Opinion ID: 2276747
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Testimony of Barbourville Police Officer

Text: The Barbourville city police officer testified that he went to the Wal-Mart store after being contacted by its loss prevention officer and while there he was shown an in-store video surveillance tape of a transaction taking place. The officer immediately recognized King in the video tape as someone he knew. When the officer left the store to return to the police department, he observed King walking on the sidewalk. King was wearing the same clothes he had on in the videotape. The officer took King to the police station at that time. According to the officer, cashier # 1 came to the station later that night and she identified King by what he was wearing. Cashier # 1 was taken into a room with King and according to the officer, King immediately objected stating, You can not do that because I am the only black man here. She is going to know it's me. The officer told cashier # 1 to leave the room and two or three minutes later she identified King. At some point in his investigation, the officer assembled a photo array of six African-American males. The pictures were taken from a database of arrests and according to the officer, they were the best pictures he could come up with. Only cashiers # 2 and # 3 were shown this photo array.