Warren Sapp is a "first amendment auditor"

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I never said I've been harassed.

Are you defending this type of behavior? Most of the people doing it are mentally ill, and the rest are doing it for attention and clicks on their YT channels.
You said you deal with it for your job once in a while and it's basically harassment disguised as free speech, so I assumed you had been harassed.

Your idea that most people doing it are mentally ill is obviously ridiculous.

As far as defending it. I absolutely defend peoples right to film police and public employees at work. There's a reason nobody feels safer when a police car pulls behind them when they're driving, and there's a reason they started to make police wear body cams.

Public employees are paid with tax dollars and are expected to be polite and helpful whether they're being video recorded or not. A lot of these employees and police are getting paid and don't even know the laws and policies they're supposed to abide by.

I personally don't like audits that are confrontational just to get views, and there are those for sure, but if a police officer or public employee can't handle a situation like that without losing their cool or doing something worse (which police do all the time) it's time for them to change jobs.
 
I never said I've been harassed.

Are you defending this type of behavior? Most of the people doing it are mentally ill, and the rest are doing it for attention and clicks on their YT channels.
So you are fine with public officials violating citizen's Rights? Can you show me the "Attention and clicks" clause in the Constitution that exempts our Rights to film public officials in the exercise of their duties?
 
This is where I'm at with them. I don't think anyone can deny that auditors are annoying, and seem to be ******** just trying to get attention. But some of the actions that the police take against them are pretty alarming. Dealing with ******** is part of the job for a cop. Regardless of if they're annoying or not, the police are bound by the law, and a lot of those videos show that they either don't know it or don't care about it.
The cops who don't take the bait, are commendable. Not a job I could do.
It is called being held accountable.
 
You said you deal with it for your job once in a while and it's basically harassment disguised as free speech, so I assumed you had been harassed.

Your idea that most people doing it are mentally ill is obviously ridiculous.

As far as defending it. I absolutely defend peoples right to film police and public employees at work. There's a reason nobody feels safer when a police car pulls behind them when they're driving, and there's a reason they started to make police wear body cams.

Public employees are paid with tax dollars and are expected to be polite and helpful whether they're being video recorded or not. A lot of these employees and police are getting paid and don't even know the laws and policies they're supposed to abide by.

I personally don't like audits that are confrontational just to get views, and there are those for sure, but if a police officer or public employee can't handle a situation like that without losing their cool or doing something worse (which police do all the time) it's time for them to change jobs.

Maybe I’m ignorant but I’ve never seen one of these that isn’t pointlessly confrontational or what I would consider to be general harassment or a waste their time.
 
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Maybe I’m ignorant but I’ve never seen one of these that isn’t pointlessly confrontational or what I would consider to be general harassment or a waste their time.

You must be white, so you wouldn't get it :rolleyes:

That's what I was told.

But my black daughter thinks this stuff is stupid too.
 
You must be white, so you wouldn't get it :rolleyes:

That's what I was told.

But my black daughter thinks this stuff is stupid too.

I mean I am an expert in what I do for my company. If someone stuck a camera in my face and was needlessly antagonistic about some weird compliance rule I probably wouldn’t do a good job explaining myself. Shocking I know.
 
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Is this to protect Americans from tyranny or about monetization?
For some auditors, I would say both. For others, it may strictly be about monetization. After all, my comment was in response to someone suggesting that people play music so that the auditor could not profit/upload the video. I would think that less than 1% do it strictly to fight tyranny.
 
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You must be white, so you wouldn't get it :rolleyes:

That's what I was told.

But my black daughter thinks this stuff is stupid too.
I went through the whole thread and didn't see anyone tell you that. Must have missed it.
But if your black daughter thinks it's stupid we should all agree right? Maybe ask her if she thought the video of George Floyd with a knee on his neck was "stupid".
 
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I mean I am an expert in what I do for my company. If someone stuck a camera in my face and was needlessly antagonistic about some weird compliance rule I probably wouldn’t do a good job explaining myself. Shocking I know.
It's a law not a rule if you're a public employee. A private company can absolutely not let people record or take pictures of employees or inside the business.

Even in a public place with public employees people can't stick a camera right in someones face or cause a disturbance. Just like police can't get right in your face if you're not doing anything illegal.
 
I went through the whole thread and didn't see anyone tell you that. Must have missed it.
But if your black daughter thinks it's stupid we should all agree right? Maybe ask her if she thought the video of George Floyd with a knee on his neck was "stupid".

Actually she (who has a Social Justice degree from ASU) doesn't think the George Floyd situation stupid at all and either do I.

It's a pretty big stretch comparing George Floyd to a washed up former millionaire College/NFL star current college coach who makes gotcha videos.
 
It's a law not a rule if you're a public employee. A private company can absolutely not let people record or take pictures of employees or inside the business.

Even in a public place with public employees people can't stick a camera right in someones face or cause a disturbance. Just like police can't get right in your face if you're not doing anything illegal.

It’s not a matter of what’s legal or not. It’s a matter of whether antagonistic behavior while recording people is going to create a needless level of conflict and make people look foolish. I just think there is absolutely nothing to be gained by this behavior and it’s detrimental.
 
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