I am familiar with “1A auditors”. And I am 100% in favor of those auditors who film the police. The police need to be watched! As the ancient Romans asked, “Who will watch the watchers?”
But those auditors who harass civilians are garbage. Pure garbage. They are no different than spam callers who bother people for their own benefit. In this video, Amagansett Press is acting like a garbage spam caller.
He should be ashamed of himself.
They aren’t harassing anyone. They are on the sidewalk recording and they allowed to do what they are doing.
Best thing you can do if you don’t want to be filmed - go into your car and go home. That’s it! Otherwise your other option is to do what this lady just did. And the only reason he filmed her car was she filmed them. If she had gotten in her car and left nobody would have paid any attention to her.
And the reason why he does this? Because our constitution is taking an ass kicking. And our rights are like muscles, if you don’t exercise them, you lose them. One of our rights is the first amendment and being able to take video and photographs in public. Our rights don’t just include happy talk and watching the police. It’s going to be a sad day when are right to take photographs and video in public goes away. It will be like North Korea.
There is no right to privacy in a public space. Period. You are barking up the wrong tree.