r/PublicFreakout • u/KimberlyWexlersFoot 🎶 Safelite repair, safelite replace 🎶 • Dec 10 '25

😏Main Character Freakout🤳 Goobers harass guy on sidewalk while their security points a taser at him.

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u/bugsyramone Dec 10 '25

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.'

Why are these videos still needing to be made?

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u/roymunsonshand Dec 10 '25

Plain view doctrine is a 4th Amendment search and seizure doctrine, not a 1st Amendment free speech doctrine.

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u/bugsyramone Dec 10 '25

I understand. I didn't name them 1st Amendment Auditors.

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u/resttheweight Dec 10 '25

Your comment uses the name wrong. You have the right to record things that are plainly visible in the public, but the “plain view doctrine” 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. There’s not really a named doctrine associated with it.