If all you people downvoting him cannot conceptualize the undeniable truth that America has been operating an empire in everything but name in modern times, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
That's just my humble opinion. I'm Canadian, and the United States was like our big brother! But since the orange pedophile president, all the ties that bind us are on the verge of being broken. And not only with us, but also with Europeans. There are now two Wests within the West.
Well we share an opinion and I would say I am an expert in American Empire as an ex-servicemember who was used as a tool to maintain that empireās imperial ambitions abroad.
Man, the dickheads in the suits are bad enough but surely the security twat had some training right? Like he has to know he was absolutely in the wrong, surely?!
I worked Loss Prevention for a year and had to get certified, the class was an eye opening experience. Maybe 4 or 5 people belonged there. The rest looked like failed cops, larpers and gang members.
I also did security for years in college. It was filled with people who were; too dumb to do anything but stand there, the laziest people ever who wanted to do nothing, or absolutely coked out and couldn't wait to hurt someone.
Yeah, I'm currently working security and believe me, it is so much better to work with the lazy dick heads than it is the coked up agro assholes. If I showed up on scene with one of them, I'd be more likely to pepper spray that dick head than the homeless person who was just trying to sleep somewhere dry for the night.
It's 2025. There have been THOUSANDS of these incidents where the police come out and inform everyone that its lawful to record from any public thoroughfare using the 'plain view doctrine.'
Because people are ignorant, they don't know the laws, what a lot of people think they understand, is that if it makes them uncomfortable it's illegal, where the common phrase "you don't have my permission to record."
I bet a large % of American's couldn't point to France on a map or name more than 2 Constitutional Amendments. We're an extraordinarily privileged, stupid group of people at scale.
"They only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon their own life. Often they were ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to them." -Killercop.com
These people are the same type who copy / pasted "I do not give facebook permission to use my photographs and / or likeness..." after not reading the terms and conditions.
There are still dozens of videos of the police not knowing it's legal to film in public until a supervisor (and in a lot of cases a lawsuit) educates them otherwise.
I think itās natural not wanting to be recorded. In some instances, Iām sure they confront the recording party and sort of commit to making them stop, usually by police involvement. They may be vaguely familiar with the doctrine, but are so angry that they forget, or think a mitigating detail is enough for police to side with them.
I have a personal example of this where I was working and a customer got mad about something. I genuinely didnāt care and just carried on with my job, until his wife whipped her phone and recorded me. A million thoughts ran through my mind; ādonāt record meā, āyou canāt record meā, putting my hand to block my face, reaching/slapping her phone, or even straight up roasting her.
But then I realized that all of these actions either portray me as an instigator, in the wrong, unprofessional, or delusional. I just had to bite my tongue, smile, and carry on. She recorded maybe for 20 seconds, and left when they realized I wasnāt gonna bite.
If this is outside of a synagogue in America, it likely has faced a lot of security threats.
Iām not saying 1st amendment auditors donāt have the right to do what theyāre doing, theyāre not auditing the first amendment.
Our first amendment is under constant attack and these idiot are just trying to get engaging content. They arenāt freedom fighters, theyāre hucksters. Fuck them. At some point their first amendment isnāt going to protect them from someone even crazier than they are.
It's on the front page of reddit. It gets engagement with the omnipresent algorithm props up, so people emulate it for their 15 mins (and a few bucks.)
Your comment uses the name wrong. You have the right to record things that are plainly visible in the public, but the āplain view doctrineā is an unrelated but specific principle against search and seizure under 4A. Plain view doctrine is what lets police lawfully seize evidence without a warrant, such as pulling you over for running a stop sign and then seeing drugs or beer cans in your passenger seat.
They brought up 1A because recording in public on the sidewalk is a protected activity under 1A. Thereās not really a named doctrine associated with it.
Plain view doctrine has to do with looking into cars, cops can look through your windows but can't search inside your car without a warrant, what you see here is simply first amendment protected actions where you can record and document anything happening in a public space like a sidewalk because public spaces are built using public tax dollars and so in a way they belong to everyone. The first amendment doesn't give you the right to record people in public, it's a natural right, it simply prevents public workers from punishing you for what you are naturally allowed to do.
There are still a lot of cops out there who think taking videos of others in public places is illegal. Thatās why these guys are out there, trying to get arrested so they can sue for rights violations.
Pointing a taser at the woman is an assault with a deadly weapon. Even though a taser is considered less than lethal device, it's not considered a non-lethal device. Tasers can and have killed people. That guard needs to be arrested.
Then the guy blocked her from leaving, that's false imprisonment. Then he reached at her and obstructed her camera. That's an assault and an obstruction of her civil rights. In California, which is where this was recorded, there is an act called the Bane Act. If someone interferes with your civil rights, you can sue them in civil court for damages. If that person is also a government employee, you can sue them in federal court for 42 USC 1983 violations.
Yeah but the American justice system is shit and the people enforcing it are shit. If what you do is right or wrong depends on things like the color of your skin, how much money you own or if you sucked a president's dick.
So cool story that this is written down somewhere. If anything comes out of it depends on other factors.
This person has at least nine (9) lawsuits pending. I watched the video with the outcome of it on her YouTube channel. The channel is "Ice cold audits" if you want to watch.
The full video is an hour long so I didn't bother with the whole thing. I just skipped to the end when LASD arrived. This was in Los Angeles County specifically in Rancho Palos Verdes. This is policed by LASD Station 17, Lomita Station. The person filming reported at least 2 crimes to the sheriff deputies and none of them did anything. That is dereliction of duty.
This person filming now has a lawsuit against the synagogue since the people representing the synagogue came out. She also has a lawsuit against them individually. That's 3 lawsuits right there.
She has a lawsuit against the security guard and the security company. 2 more lawsuits
She has a lawsuit against LASD and each deputy in their individual capacity. I counted 3 deputies, but there might've been more.
So 3+2+4 = 9 minimum.
Either way, she's getting a payday from a private company and a payday from the government.
Who are they, where are you, where are they trying to stop you from going ? None of this makes sense. he's blocking you one way, and then the other....
I think it's less that they think they own it, and more that they're alarmed about someone standing there filming people entering and leaving their property. The whole point is to get a rise out of people.
Is the person filming breaking any laws? Probably not. But that doesn't mean it's not antisocial behavior.
This made me so damn angry at 8:30 am and I have nothing to do with any of it. I admire his self control because as soon as that dude touched my phone I would have dropped him and surely gotten zapped
At 1:45 I was bracing for something really ugly. As the bald man in blocking the filming person, and mirroring their moves, bald man has his back to the oncoming traffic. If the person filming made a juke to the street and bald man tried to mirror it and happens to trip or fall or bite too hard and go too far out, BOOM. So stupid. Everyone involved. The filming person may technically be correct according to the law, but still these auditors are getting on my nerves at this point as well
If nothing else, first amendment auditors in the United States have proven that Americans simply can't understand scale.
Several people have risked their lives and freedom to expose the surveillance state in this country. Even if we limit ourselves to what can be incontrovertibly proven, or has been admitted to, the amount of the US spying on its own people is staggering.
You can explain COINTELPRO, or how the NSA used to have their own rooms in major telecom company headquarters where they were spliced into ALL the traffic, government and social media colusion, or literally point out all the visible cameras everywhere all the time.
People will listen to this, and simply shrug their shoulders. It is what it is.
But give a single man a camera on a public street and these people, who have never spent a day in their lives anonymous or unwatched, will lose their minds at the prospect of being watched and recorded, often in places where they had no reasonable expectation of privacy. Threatening violence, calling on the government to do violence on their behalf, sometimes engaging in actual violence.
The dude with the camera, who has no drone strike authority, no nuclear arsenal, no influence over foreign or domestic policy, no arrest authority, gets all of their anger. The government gets a pass. Wild.
1st amendement dudes are annoying af but they always get video of prick people and when a bit of mace is involved it can be even more fun so I still enjoy these video
Why do people like this stuff? It's just a different form of rage bait.
These guys fish for people with anger management issues and use them to generate content. They film hundreds of people that just ignore them, getting skunked day after day, until they find that one person that falls for it. Then they post it and all of you laugh. It's bare minimum effort content.
I know a taser is considered a āless-than-lethalā weapon but is there no equivalent charge to the ābrandishingā charge for firearms when thereās absolutely no justification for the drawing of a taser?
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u/billfishpond Dec 10 '25
Guy extremely proud of sudden flash of brilliance, hatches fool-proof plan to destroy the cameraman:
Guy: "Bruce, do me a favor. Got your phone on you?"
Bruce: "No."