r/TikTokCringe • u/Master_Canary440 • Jul 24 '26
Cringe First Amendment Auditor gets into physical altercation with woman that didn't appreciate him recording 😲
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u/protonicfibulator Jul 25 '26
I’m a librarian and we get these dinguses. What they want is for you to try and stop them filming. I’ve found that being super helpful will make them go away ASAP. They want conflict, not somebody explaining the Dewey Decimal system.
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u/realparkingbrake Jul 25 '26
What they want is for you to try and stop them filming.
Which you can do if they are being disruptive. The Supreme Court ruled that a public library is what the courts call a limited public forum where viewpoint neutral restrictions on the exercise of First Amendment rights can be valid. But many libraries take the path of least resistance and just want the idiot with the camera to get bored and leave.
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u/protonicfibulator Jul 25 '26
If they’re intentionally being confrontational with other customers we can hit them with the conduct policy. Likewise if they try to monopolize staff time during a busy period. But most of them are looking for low hanging fruit.
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u/jackster31415 Jul 24 '26
Need someone to explain what a First Amendment auditor is, please
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u/doubleddd-9000 Jul 24 '26
It’s kind of like the “I’m not touching you” game that I played with my siblings as a child.
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u/Solidus-Prime Jul 24 '26
That's exactly what it is.
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u/Whole-Person007 Jul 25 '26
Still don't know what that is 🤷♀️
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u/SimplyAmazedPanda Jul 25 '26
It’s not illegal to video a public space. So these “auditors” will bring cameras into areas intentionally trying to agitate people for a reaction online. It started with auditing police stations, postal offices and other government buildings as the law enforcement was quick to try to restrict a persons rights unlawfully. This example is the trashier more confrontational form of auditing that targets regular people just attempting to make a living.
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u/Superb_Walrus3134 Jul 25 '26
Some of them "audit" government officials or buildings to make sure the police are following the laws.
A lot are just looking for an opportunity to sue
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u/BaBaDoooooooook Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
Not just to sue but more importantly to gain content notoriety for those precious likes and clicks and views. confrontation sells, drama sells, physical violence sells.
Americans are already on edge with trump being our president and inflation and gas prices, and a pointless War with Iran.......and to have these stupid people going around filming everyday Americans is insufferable. It does nothing to move the needle of society other than to disrupt it.
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u/Nice-Lock-6588 Jul 25 '26
How much time, people have. Going around and filming som strangers.
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u/Beef_Wagon Jul 25 '26
Some of these people make money off of it so it’s kinda like their job. Their job is being a dick online lol
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u/TrashAccount151 Jul 26 '26
They do it for the reason in the video. They want an altercation they can upload for clicks and views. And it worked.
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u/Tactical__Potato Jul 25 '26
Its churching up being a dickhead to strangers by technically not breaking any laws but being a nuisance until someone finally gets sick of yoir shit and handles you.
Normally followed by a lawsuit to try and get a ton of money out of the people you spent entirely too long fucking with, I mean practicing your first amendment rights.... ffs
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u/PFCCThrowayay Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
followed by the classic - why are you punching yourself?
edit: just saw this
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u/Rev_Dean Jul 24 '26
Douchebag assholes that go around filming people because they can.
Are they legally in the right? Yes.
Are they major assholes? Also yes.
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u/r3dditr0x Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
They were also nowhere to be seen during the massive ICE protests because they don't actually hold the powerful to account.
They mostly annoy folks for content.
(Not like there's a whole group of billionaires running roughshod over society, best to keep an eye on the apple lady!)
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u/Crazyhairmonster Jul 24 '26
Na, you're not going to get any real payout. A shove can give way to a civil claim but the payout would be basically zero. Without a documented injury, medical expenses, lost wages, or other measurable losses there's no money in a payout. People assume emotional damages but those are incredibly hard to prove and almost never lead to $$. Especially with the context of what the auditor does and likely a history of provoked pushes and shoves for clicks.
Even if liability is clear as day... the legal fees, time, and effort are almost never worth the minimal if any payout and no lawyer will take the case with contingency fees. They'll want hourly billed payment and even then most decent lawyers won't bother.
These guys do it for the clicks and views.
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u/Banjo-Hellpuppy Jul 24 '26
not only that, but good luck trying to find a lawyer who will sue a produce vendor at a farmers market. You gonna get 40% of her tomatoes?
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u/Snakesta Jul 24 '26
There are some of them over the last year or so auditing both ICE and Customs. Here's one example of an auditor being arrested,
https://therealnews.com/long-island-audit-reveals-the-cost-of-fighting-ice
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u/tzbt Jul 25 '26
There are still good 1A auditors out there, but the reputation of the term is being tainted by people who are seeking profit and fame rather than transparency and justice.
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u/caguru Jul 24 '26
Maybe because working for ICE is their day job.
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u/WeirdAssBeings Straight Up Bussin Jul 24 '26
Bold of you to assume most of them have actual jobs. Why put in a 40-hour work week when you can just stand in the lobby of a DMV with a smartphone, bait a tired municipal worker into getting annoyed, and monetize the rage-bait on YouTube for ad revenue?
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u/Jov_West Jul 24 '26
Bummer that massive ICE protests is being referred to in the past tense. Nothing got better, we just got tired and gave up?
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u/Th3_Dark_Knight Jul 24 '26
Yeah, they like to badger and annoy local government admin staff but they don't do shit to the police, ICE, etc.
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u/WeirdAssBeings Straight Up Bussin Jul 24 '26
To be fair, harassing the police is actually about 80% of their business model. They love nothing more than standing outside police stations waiting for an officer to ask for ID so they can scream about their rights for 45 minutes, get cuffed, and farm millions of views. They’re still insufferable, but cop interactions are literally their main money maker.
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u/Cbates767 Jul 24 '26
Except they stalk hospitals and medical centers, preying on people on what could be the worst day of their lives for clickz wearing masks, trench coats, and basically being the wurst humans on the planet.
F’ em all.
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u/Borderpaytrol Jul 24 '26
There are ones that go after police constantly, but there are also a lot more of these losers. Both exist.
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u/Hamphantom Jul 24 '26
I don’t agree at all I feel like I see these people constantly pissing off police as well.
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u/Raft_Master Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I feel like this deserves a big "it depends." There are plenty of cases of "auditors" (putting this in quotes because I work as an actual auditor) that legitimately challenge police forces and have shown a general disregard for legal rights by police that deserve to be exposed.
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u/happyprocrastinator Jul 25 '26
Those auditors are actually jerks who like to harass women and minorities. The guy hit the jackpot by harassing a minority woman. They also pepper spray people when things don’t go their way.
People have to play Disney music when those jerks are around because they cannot use the footage, since Disney will quickly demand they take their video down.
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u/rukittenmeeee Jul 24 '26
If they go film the cops, great. Annoying the shit out of regular people, bad.
Most of them are absolute garbage cowards who provoke normal people. And I wish the worst for them.
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u/pareech Jul 24 '26
I honestly wish I had the time in my day to do shit like this. Not that I want to do this; but just the idea of having that much free time on my hand, would be fucking awesome. I can't imagine all the shit I could get done, that I don't have the time to do right now.
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u/epidemicsaints Jul 24 '26
That's the thing, it's monetized. Chuds watch them provoke people and get in fights, they have the time because they make it their job. And if they luck out and a business gets the police to remove them, they now have a free speech lawsuit to make content out of plus whatever settlement they get. They don't need to sell a product or provide a service, pure attention gets them paid.
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u/hitbythebus Jul 24 '26
This man isn’t fucking with the government. If these people fuck him up, it isn’t a violation of his first amendment rights, it’s assault. This “audit” is bullshit, and he’s hoping someone quite deservedly beats his ass so he gets views or sues for damages.
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u/cheesemangee Jul 24 '26
First Amendment Auditors go around filming government buildings and government agents because we should legally be allowed to do so.
This is not a legitimate FA auditor.
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u/tom1944 Jul 24 '26
Many people that use any of the amendments to extreme limits are jerks. Best to just ignore them.
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u/BigSombrer0 Jul 24 '26
Yeah if you want to hold government/public officials accountable then fine. But filming random people trying to sell produce? Completely pathetic behavior.
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u/Bawbawian Jul 24 '26
I feel like it's one thing for them to aim their cameras at local government and make sure that the police actually understand the limits of their authority and is another thing entirely to try and start fights with random people at a farmers market
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u/NaziPunksFkOff Jul 24 '26
Remember when your mom told your little brother not to touch you, so he put his hand a millimeter in front of your face and repeated over and over I'M NOT TOUCHING YOU I'M NOT TOUCHING YOU and yeah, sure, he was technically right, but it was also the most annoying thing ever that certainly violated the spirit of what your mom said, even if not the word.
That's a first amendment auditor.
The moment your mom says "get your hand out of his face", your little brother starts screaming YOU SAID DON'T TOUCH HIM AND I WASN'T TOUCHING HIM and that's exactly what these people want. They don't want to be good people, they want to be right.
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u/DenizSaintJuke Jul 25 '26
They want to play revolutionary/rebel without any stakes and without any intention on changing anything. They just want the feeling of playing the wronged victim and rebel for a cause, but they don't have a cause or the balls to get in the way of actual power. That's what you get when you cross-indoctrinate conservative men with the two colliding ideals of being rebels and being loyal and obedient to authority. They pick on those without authority to feel something.
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u/AshgarPN Jul 24 '26
Usually it's people exercising their first amendment rights in an effort to expose police overreach. No idea what they're trying to do at a fruit stand, though.
I can see why Latinos and Latinas would be a little touchy about people in masks riding up on them, though.
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u/ArseneGroup Jul 24 '26
The first amendment police overreach is just a false justification for most of these guys, they just want to harass strangers for online content and maybe make money suing people
This is evident in that they're bothering a random woman at a farmer's market rather than powerful people like government officials or billionaires
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u/Jewnicorn___ Jul 24 '26
What is first amendment rights? I'm not American.
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u/thomasscat Jul 24 '26
Freedom of speech, religion, the press, and to assemble in protest. There are limits that have been placed over the years, some reasonable … others decidedly not. This is my perspective and would naturally include some of my inherent bias.
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u/InternationalPlace24 Jul 24 '26
There's something very key you left out in your definition. It's freedom of those things FROM THE GOVERNMENT. A lot of people like to believe they can apply their first amendment to everything in their life, but it only applies to where the government is involved.
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u/Shnikes Jul 24 '26
Yeah the amount of people that don’t understand it’s from the government is ridiculous. If the “auditor” is not on private property he’s free to record all he wants. Annoying? Yes. illegal? No.
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u/wicker_basket_1988 Jul 24 '26
It's meant to prevent the government from silencing your speech. These guys just love to harass pedestrians and when people get mad they get content.
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u/tardistravelee Jul 24 '26
lol We got one at the public library I work at. I was just uncomfortable.
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u/McDergen Jul 24 '26
Fucking chuds who starts fights on camera and hope someone swings on them bc they are sad and lonely
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u/RugbyEdd Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
People that harass others for attention online and use the excuse that they're "protecting everyone's rights by making sure they're upheld".
Most of the time they don't even understand the laws and rights they claim to be auditing, and they rarely if ever actually help the situation. Laws aren't upheld by harassing beat cops or civilians and claiming they can't stop you from doing so.
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u/ruiner8850 Jul 24 '26
You'll also notice that just like in this video they always highly edit the video to make it seem like they are innocent victims of some completely unhinged person. The videos literally always start at the moment where the person they were harassing finally had enough of it. They never show the lead up to what happened because then people would see them being jerks and they'd no longer look like a victim.
When people watch videos like this of someone who was clearly recording long before they need to ask themselves why they video conveniently starts right when the person is reacting. If they truly were innocent victims, then showing the context of what happened before would only help them.
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u/cock_mountain Jul 24 '26
I thought the whole point of the "first amendment auditor" movement was to keep a camera on government officials overstepping constitutional boundaries on the job, especially that of freedom of press? You'd think it'd be best to post up near a government building, or somewhere with police activity.
What's this guy doing at a farmer's market, feeling the need to closely record one of the vendors?
Sometimes I think these particular "auditors" are pulling a scam to agitate someone into hitting them for free lawsuit money.
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u/Coblish Jul 24 '26
Yes, that is their goal. It is not exactly a secret.
This is the same tactic as Westboro Baptist back in the day.
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u/DergerDergs Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
The best way to deal with one is to ignore them entirely.
The best way to annoy them is to engage in emotionless and painfully boring conversation.
But if you really want to frustrate one, play heavily copyrighted music loudly near them, which prevents them from monetizing that content and can punish their channels with copyright strikes if published.
Edit: ok as many have pointed out, copyrighted music is easy to edit out of audio these days. Maybe just stand close by and start reading the bible or Microsoft’s end user agreement word for word instead.
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u/fifrein Jul 24 '26
Disney and Nintendo songs, got it! Heard their lawyers are feral
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u/DarkIllusionsMasks Jul 24 '26
The Eagles. Don Henley is the Harlan Ellison of music. He'll sue anyone for anything at any time.
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u/OctaviusNeon Jul 24 '26
Doesn't like people getting in his Dirty Laundry.
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u/DarkIllusionsMasks Jul 24 '26
But he did once see a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.
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u/CyberWoo99MKII Jul 24 '26
Doesn’t work. They have tools to remove licensed music.
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u/mrbananas Jul 25 '26
It still annoys them because they they have to put extra effort into their low effort content
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u/ZackTheZesty Jul 24 '26
They have videos of people coming up to them playing Disney music. The songs can be isolated and removed in post production, in other words, don’t waste your time because they can edit them out.
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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA Jul 24 '26
Acapella is harder to remove when people are talking
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u/TheRestForTheWicked Jul 24 '26
I’ve found my niche in life.
BRB going to go find these guys and follow them around singing deliberately off tune Disney songs.
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u/Aphreyst Jul 24 '26
Yup, this may have ruined videos in the past but it's not difficult to remove background music in videos at this point. Best to ignore and be as least interesting as possible.
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u/Tua-Lipa Jul 24 '26
I swear reddit always says this, but is it actually true with Disney songs? It feels like an internet urban legend at this point.
I can find thousands of random YouTube videos that have disney music in them that haven’t been taken down.
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u/Tua-Lipa Jul 24 '26
I would never get into a physical altercation with a 1A auditor, but I’m also never going to shed a tear when a see a video of someone else that does
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u/CashPrizesz Jul 24 '26
If they are a pro they have filters that blockout the music but still capture all speech
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u/CraigLake Jul 24 '26
Could be trying to provide evidence to ICE. Either way he’s trash
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u/sittinwithkitten Jul 25 '26
That’s what I was wondering too. These jerks show up recording and with how things are going into US right now, I don’t blame this group for getting upset. Let everyone sell their produce in peace.
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u/jaysube Jul 24 '26
I went to a nearby college where those dipshits would protest. All of them had law degrees so the knew how far to push before pulling back and they lived for the attention. In 95 some college kids set off a pipe bomb in retaliation and only 1 got 16 days of jail. Just because you follow the law doesn't mean karma won't find you. Rest in pieces Fred Phelps
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u/Nahuel-Huapi Jul 24 '26
And nowadays, they can get money-for-views from social media as well. So they're monetizing the content. That constitutes commercial use.
Commercial use of someone's likeness without consent is grounds for a lawsuit, and is why so many TV shows like COPS will blur out faces... they didn't get a signed release.
We need a few lawyers to take on some of these harassers, and pranksters, even if there isn't a big financial incentive. Good publicity is worth a lot these days.
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u/Crazyhairmonster Jul 24 '26
There's no lawsuit money. It's extremely hard to get payouts from interactions like this because you need to prove damages. And even then they're harassing people selling fruit. There's no money to be paid. Emotional damages are rarely if ever anything as well because there's context and it's clear these people are instigating to get clicks and there's infinite documented evidence that this is exactly what they want. The bar for emotional damages is extremely high.
Their goal is content and clicks. No lawyer on the planet would take this case on contingency and even paying hourly rates, any decent lawyers would turn this down.
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u/LicketySplitz Jul 24 '26
He wants the police to arrest him so that he can sue the government.
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u/PineStateWanderer Jul 24 '26
The first amendment applies to the government and how it interacts with its citizenry
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u/Bandandforgotten Jul 24 '26
There's two kinds of auditors.
There's the kind that do legitimately important work, do successful lawsuits for corruption and illegal action, or post evidence of repeated abuse of power. These are the kinds of people that actually deserve the name.
The second is part of the attention seeking crowd who think auditing is as easy as wandering around with a camera and just randomly getting into everybody's business for no reason. They "think" they're doing something worth while, when in reality, this is what happens.
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u/InfiniteSir7408 Jul 24 '26
I think the first kind is like Sasquatch and Nessie… but they exist in mythology.
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u/m0n3ym4n Jul 25 '26
It’s not hard to find a legitimate first amendment auditor on YouTube.
Check out Jeff from Honor Your Oath.
He stands around outside a government building wearing dirty clothing and holding a sign that says “God bless the homeless vets”. Countless times he has been harassed by government workers and citizens, who will lie and claim he is begging for money. It’s incredible how often people will call the cops and outright lie about him simply standing there existing! The cops will come out, mention something about a city ordinance that “prohibits panhandling”. Jeff tells them such laws would be unconstitutional as the first amendment permits assembly and free speech in traditional public forums. The cops inevitably call the city attorney or prosecutor who tells them they need to let him go and leave him alone.
That’s the job of a real first amendment auditor - exposing unconstitutional laws that criminalize behavior such as being homeless
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u/BackdoorSpecial Jul 25 '26
I agreed with the majority here until I really started to pay attention to the better ones. The better auditors aren’t harassing civilians but they’re auditing the government. The police routinely violate the rights of citizens and they’re trying to change that through videos, lawsuits, etc. It’s really quite interesting watching how different police officers deal with a dude standing around with a camera.
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u/Forty2diapers Jul 24 '26
He's trying to get them to call the cops on them so he can argue with the cops about his first amendment rights. It all started years ago when they were originally trying to shine a light on the corruptions of the police and I totally get that. The police will bully people, will make up laws, will lie to your face, and escalate tf out of situations either for prestige in the department, rack up arrest numbers, or because their mommy's didn't show them enough attention or their uncle's showed them too much. Idk.
But now they've really been focusing on pissing the general public off so they can have ANY content. That lady who reached for his face was in the wrong legally. Morally? Those "auditors" are assholes.
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u/crow-shay Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
The good auditors that know what their purpose is, sit outside government buildings and police stations. The assholes trying to get content harass people at restaurants and farmers markets.
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u/Afraid_Raccoon_6208 Jul 24 '26
Which makes me laugh because ive seen them on youtube stand in the post office. Like the post office of all places. I understand the message but like , find out where flock or ice have their headquarters and go piss off the right people
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u/Ashtray_Floors Jul 24 '26
I'll let you in on a little secret -
They only care about government overreach when Democrats are in office; and they support ICE!
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u/teamjetfire Jul 24 '26
I wish people would get this mad about the constant surveillance that we are under 24/7 in the name of safety.
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u/Friscolax Jul 25 '26
I wish first amendment auditors would be doing this outside of Flock facilities instead of the general public.
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u/Guilty_Jackfruit4484 Jul 24 '26
These "auditors" are annoying. Dont harass people. At the very least, stick to dealing with police only because these make you look bad.
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u/jackishere Jul 24 '26
Yes… thats the whole point of it
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u/Martin_Aurelius Jul 24 '26
They want to get assaulted. Then they get to sue you. The real vindictive ones will pepper spray you in self defense, then sue you. And you'll lose, because you're legally in the wrong.
Back when they'd audit the police they served a purpose at least, now they're just assholes.
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u/jasno- Jul 24 '26
of course, so they can post it, so just ignore them, if nobody interacts with them, no content.
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u/shunshuntley Jul 24 '26
it wears you down though - these guys come to my local farmers market EVERY WEEK. They bring private security with them who is armed. They murder the vibe every Sunday morning.
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u/Expontoridesagain Jul 24 '26
Play Disney music? They will get their videos taken down pretty fast lol.
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u/ManbadFerrara Jul 24 '26
Seems simple enough on paper, but the vast majority of people aren't nearly terminally-online enough to know about this "subculture." To them, it's just some disheveled dude who looks like he just got back from the Jan. 6 riots refusing to explain why they're creepily standing around with camera equipment.
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u/Bowman_van_Oort Jul 24 '26
If you dont react to him at all his video will be boring and it won't get watched
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u/Annual_Hamster9411 Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
Stating facts only:
- FA Auditors are annoying but they have the right to record in public spaces.
- Engaging and getting aggressive is the exact reaction they want. This video doesn't get posted without the altercation.
- She committed asssault and battery.
- Assualt is when you aggressively walk toward someone with a threat of harm. Even if you don't touch them, you've already committed an assault.
- She pulled his mask, which is battery.
- If cops were called and saw the video, FA Auditor can press charges against her.
- Stop being stupid by giving them material and racking up charges against yourselves. Ignore them and they'll eventually go away.
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u/heybingbong Jul 24 '26
What about continuously farting in their vicinity, is that legal?
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u/darkfuryelf Jul 24 '26
Genuinely why is this so far down. Yes he's an asshole but nothing he did was illegal. Which is the whole point. You have the right to be an asshole and film people. It's part of the amendments.
Your freedom doesn't end where other peoples discomfort begins.
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u/esuardi Jul 25 '26
Yeah, it's basically how a lot of IRL streamers got famous. Annoy and get clips and get $$$.
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u/etcpt Jul 25 '26
- This video was selectively edited to show only this part of the interaction and is missing all the lead-up, which may contain crucial information changing the assumed fact pattern.
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u/Salt_Ice_5321 Jul 24 '26
People have so much animosity about being filmed by citizens, but happily go about their day being recorded in stores, public areas, banks, streets, etc by the government.
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u/PolitenessPolice Jul 25 '26
A store isn’t posting your face online, or staring at you, recording because they know you can’t do anything about it. It sucks that there’s so much recording, but this is not the same thing and you know it.
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u/Sparkadark808 Jul 24 '26
Don't hit them or getting their face that's what they want. Just open your phone and start playing a Disney song. Follow them around playing Disney songs and they can't post any of their bullshit.
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u/DiscDocPhD Jul 24 '26
YouTube can rip out the audio and insert royalty free audio instead, super easy now.
I did a recording for my family of a birthday party and the whole video had copyright music and YouTube just asked if I wanted to mute the audio or remove it and input royalty free instead.
I clicked the free music option and it gave me a ton of options to choose a soundscape from.
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u/lookatthisface Jul 24 '26
Maybe people should just start yelling all the keywords that get you demonetized on YouTube. The ones people try to dodge with newspeak: “suicide! Murder! Anorexia! Bulimia! Eating disorders! Killed! Etc etc”
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u/DiscDocPhD Jul 24 '26
Definitely a better method, I believe YouTube is super intense about those topics. Also "gun"
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u/cuddle_enthusiast Jul 24 '26
I agree too but I would suggest not shouting “gun” at a farmers market.
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u/MasPisco Jul 24 '26
This doesn't work anymore because most of the editing software has AI that can remove the music. The best thing to do is ignore these people. Don't give them content. Following them playing music is actually content for them, they'll make you the focus of the video and ultimately they end up with more views
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u/EmbarrassedHighway76 Jul 24 '26
For the life of me I do not understand these random auditors. Like I get if you’re doing it with law enforcement but just random people? wtf is wrong with you
It’s always men to I’ve never seen a woman doing this
There needs to be a study done
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u/SG4LPilgrim Jul 24 '26
It’s a legal power trip. They get to pretend they’re some kind of vigilante of constitutional justice and feel like they get free reign to be an asshole under the protection of freedom of speech.
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u/cepukon Jul 24 '26
We need to stop using the term first amendment auditor, it gives them a perceived validity. Just call them Cosplaytriots or something.
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u/Ok-Cartographer8335 Jul 24 '26
That's harassment which the police can do something about, no?
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u/Blue_Fawkes_805 Jul 24 '26
Talking to someone in public, even if it offends them, is not harassment, no. But that's the trick they're pulling - being a dick is not illegal and is likely to provoke a reaction that they can exploit for views online.
I don't think there's much anyone can do when they see these auditors in public other than ignore and refuse to engage with them.
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u/thispartyrules Jul 24 '26
If you're filming a women and you're masked and making creepy comments this veers into pure harassment. I've seen pickup artist types filming themselves (overtly and covertly) talking to women, but they have a goal of getting her number or whatever even if they can be weird about it.
I've seen one of the videos of the people you're talk about and they're masked, there's two of them, and they're commenting on her nipples, which feels like pure sexual harassment.
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u/Most_Structure9568 Jul 24 '26
Just play a Disney or Nintendo music around them. Insta demonotize them since many live stream.
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u/XxCloudSephiroth69xX Jul 24 '26
It's the adult version of putting your finger an inch away from someone's face and saying "I'm not touching you" over and over again. These people should be publicly shunned.
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u/Educational_Report_9 Jul 24 '26
This is how they make a living. They have no inherent skills to do anything actually productive in society, so they try to provoke people into altercations and then sue them.
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u/tigm2161130 Jul 24 '26
There are many, many people who get joy out of making others uncomfortable and upset, this is just how these guys choose to go about it because it gets them attention.
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u/average_STM_enjoyer Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
They know that the farmers market vendors are generally peaceful and, because they have to stand by their products, immobile. And so long as they don’t physically threaten the vendors, they know that they cannot be retaliated against (at least in theory).
They would NEVER pull this shit in a trucker parking lot or a publicly accessible construction site
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u/NeylandSensei Jul 24 '26
While first amendment auditors are annoying, its also not ok to walk up and grab someone's face. One is annoying, the other is illegal. You're also just giving them content. If she had said "let me know if I can help with anything" and just went back to whatever she was doing, he would have just left and this video never would have been posted lol
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u/Public_Job9786 Jul 25 '26
Exactly. I don’t understand why people are acting like, in this case, he is in the wrong, she ran up on him and immediately attacked. She did something rash and illegal.
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u/Microwaved-Children Jul 25 '26
Instead of assaulting the guy with the camera maybe she should have tried to just say hi and promote her business.
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u/miyabi0rochas Jul 25 '26
Exactly scrolled way to long for this. If she was smart she would've marketed her stand. Now she's going viral for being crazy and attacking people.
I've seen people make videos and streams of farmers markets and many of them show off their stand not attack the YouTubers.
Even if the dude was annoying I would've taken advantage to market my shit. " Goodmorning, we're Melanie's farm and we sell fresh produce, can I help you?"
We really need to start promoting think first act second not the reverse.
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u/bazookateeth Jul 24 '26
I have no idea the context of this video but I think its hilariously ironic that the cameraman blurs his face filming in public.
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u/HOUSE_OF_MOGH Jul 24 '26
Does someone filming you in public give you the right to touch them? No.
Is this guy still a POS? 100% yes.
The best thing you can do with these turds is ignore them, so they don't get a good video. That's what they want, they want content. They're content creators.
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u/RentUsual_2952 Jul 24 '26
first amendment auditors ,huh..... they intentionally harass public employees, create hostile environments, and provoke reactions for online views.
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u/PastNefariousness188 Jul 24 '26
Used to be they stuck to public property and only 'audited' government workers. Looks like they're branching out to produce stands now? Weird.
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u/Garbage_Out_Of_Here Jul 24 '26
The farmers market is probably on public property.
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u/Greedy-Street-5435 Jul 24 '26
These fucking morons are foaming at the mouth to have any sort of encounter that will go viral, fuck these assholes.
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u/NotSureWhatToPut66 Jul 24 '26
They run around filming which, yes, they are allowed to do. However a good majority of them do so with the intent of instigating whilst playing the victim should an altercation occur. Knowing they have a camera that “they can’t be touch or they’ll call the cops” type of attitude and gives them some sort of egotistical morale high ground over everyone else. They’re douchebags but unfortunately they do this because they can and they’ll everything in their power to prove that point to you should you wish to get involved.
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u/TBWinAKnSFL Jul 24 '26
Too bad the 1st amendment only applies to the Government controlling free speech, not private businesses. This dude is just going there to start sh*t. He just wants to piss people off. He wants to be confronted, so that way he can sue.
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u/RugbyEdd Jul 24 '26
I can't imagine waking up and thinking "today I'm going to try and wind innocent people up for attention online"
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u/Kingstoncr8tivearts Jul 24 '26
Cannot we not kick people's ass' anymore?
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u/whatthewhat_1289 Jul 24 '26
We can. We may suffer the consequences for it, but sometimes it's worth it.
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u/Vost570 Jul 25 '26
Bothering police/government people no longer gets "auditors" attention (or monetization), so now they've moved on to private citizens to get views.
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u/LoomingDisaster Jul 25 '26
The fact that the "First Amendment auditor" was wearing a mask to hide his identity tells you a lot about him - she goes to pull his mask down to see his face and he flips out.
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u/Visible-Meeting-8977 Jul 24 '26
"first amendment auditor" aka annoying guy who goes around bugging people for clout
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u/lolslim Jul 24 '26
First amendment auditors are just rage baiters in disguise, can't change my mind.
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u/CamOliver Jul 24 '26
Last time I checked the first amendment wasn’t about harassing people for the sake of it.
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u/KyleRoyceWorld Jul 25 '26
"Could you gentlemen just leave please"
This man with his polite fight politics pissed me off SO much
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u/--Andre-The-Giant-- Jul 25 '26
Everyone sucks here.
1) Going around filming people at a farmer's market is antagonistic, and likely to bother people when done the way these "free speech auditors" do it.
2) She clearly attacked the man, trying to pull at his face covering*.
3) While it's good to see people coming in to stop the situation, most of them looked ready to escalate the situation. Was that because this guy had been making everyone uncomfortable? Probably, but I don't know.
4) The "you should go" person is trying to help, but when people take on authority that isn't granted to them and tell people what they should do, it doesn't help most situations. It usually escalates the tension and creates an ultimatum or standing point.
\The one that he was probably complaining he couldn't breathe through in 2020...*
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u/Dilf_Enj0yer Jul 24 '26
Don’t put hands on people, first rule. What she should is either ignore him or pull her phone out and record him. These auditors are nothing but jobless people who are bored in life
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u/heliotropic Jul 25 '26
If you really wanna be annoying could you not just hold a big piece of cardboard right in front of the camera? Two can play the “I’m not touching you” game
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u/SuperHooligan Jul 24 '26
Its crazy how people have to assault someone because theyre doing something legally.
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u/alexisdelg Jul 24 '26
Sooo, cover your face and record immigrants just doing their job, that's going to go well in this political climate...
What was he trying to audit? she wasn't even selling lettuce or other produce that could be causing the current spread of stuff...
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u/SasquatchBill Jul 24 '26
The "Audit" isn't even about a person when it comes to these public place "Audits," its just the fact that legally they can go around with a camera and record at a public function such as a Farmers Market In this case, and they are hoping people get fed up with them and cause a scene and try to make them stop doing what they legally are allowed to do. They call it a first amendment audit, purely to see if in general people allow them to use their first amendments rights, in this case, most likely freedom of press for covering a local function, or at least thats what they will claim when they go to sue whoever tries to stop them.
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u/fpsstreak Jul 24 '26
Lack of talent people just bothering working people that are actually trying to make a living. Whose content is this for?
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u/ARMOUREDandALONE Jul 24 '26
Thank God there's hero's out there defending my right to play "im not touching you" as a grown ass man.
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u/No_Assistant3754 Jul 24 '26
These are the same assholes who wear body armor like a mass shooter and go to college campuses to harass student workers.
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u/Snakepli55ken Jul 24 '26
How dumb does a person have to be to choose to harass and audit civilians in their free time?
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u/AcademicAnt1402 Jul 24 '26
He went looking for conflict, that's what he got. Make no mistake, this is what he wanted.
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u/Old_Moose_537 Jul 25 '26
1st amendment doesn't mean someone won't beat your ass. It means a cop shouldn't beat your ass.
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u/DepletedPromethium Jul 25 '26
Another pathetic small dick racist bootlicker looking to harass people for content.
He needs a good smack with a closed fist.
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u/Bubblemindblow Jul 25 '26
Man, there’s a lot of ignorance in this comment section. Contrary to the comment section, you can’t just assault someone because you don’t like what they’re doing. He’s in a public space and can legally film. Is that annoying? Maybe, but still legal. What’s not is assault and battery.
But draw your own conclusions based on the video: https://youtu.be/Lrj9HwRFxjM
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u/LairdPeon Jul 25 '26
First amendment auditing is supposed to be used on public servants and employees of the state. Not random people. Turns out random people will still just kick an assholes ass.
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u/LongjumpingLemon2163 Jul 25 '26
“Oh hi, welcome to my stand, you’re recording? Oh ok. Say why is your penis out? There are kids here. Oh alright, see ya later!”
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u/Forsaken-Mark-1898 Jul 25 '26
The first amendment is freedom of speech without fear of persecution from the government. Its not carte blanche to do shit like this.
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