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irresponsible dog owners and the cops that won't cite them
leashless dogs where they shouldn't be and law enforcement ignoring the violations
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Beyond the Call Of Duty
Miami Beach lifeguards go above and beyond the call of duty to protect the privacy of beachgoers in a state park by harassing me for supposedly taking photographs of people who didn't want to be photographed, although he admitted nobody had complained. (I wasn't. Everything I did shoot is included in this playlist.) Since it's a public beach, it would have been my first amendment right if I had wanted to do it anyway.
As though it wasn't enough to confront me, as I walked down the beach to get to the street, one rode in front of me (the lieutenant who's 2nd in command of the beach patrol) repeatedly making an announcement over the PA in his pickup truck that I am taking indiscreet photos and that I refuse to leave the beach, while the other rode behind me in his golf cart, repeatedly bumping me from behind and forcing me to run in order not to get hit. At one point at the beginning of part 4, a beachgoer, a young man in his early 20's, attempts to take the camera from me because of their actions.
There were at least 50 other people taking pictures out there at the time. Why do you suppose I was singled out? Could it be because I complained at the last City Commission meeting about some city workers' lack of respect for the 1st amendment?
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Another MBPD rights violation?
Unidentified MBPD Officer chases guy with guitar, who is studying sheet music, from the lawn in Lummus Park on a hot, sunny afternoon.
This is the same cop who arrived in a prowl car to assist Officer Graham in the videos in the playlist, "MBPD's National TV Star Engages in Racial Profiling," also on my channel.
Several weeks prior to that, I was at Starbuck's, playing chess on the patio with a 6-ft.-tall-plus friend of mine, a Katrina refugee from New Orleans. He was the only Black there, and his complexion is the darkest I've ever seen.
An employee called MBPD to complain about a 5-ft.-2-in.-tall Mulatto Latino who was panhandling customers (ourselves included), and who refused to leave when asked in both English and Spanish.
By the time this officer arrived in response to that call, the offender had been gone for 10 minutes already. As he came up the patio stairs, I heard the words "mulatto latin male, height 5-3" coming from his radio.
Without entering the store or speaking with anyone there, this cop walked directly up behind my friend's chair, tapped his shoulder, and told him, "Stand up." As soon as he got his arms above the chair back, the cop grabbed them, pulled them behind him, and had him handcuffed before he was standing fully erect.
I protested, telling him that this was not whom they had called about, that that guy was gone already, and that my friend's appearance was not even close to the description I had heard come over his radio.
He told me to mind my own business, and walked my friend to his prowl car, where he emptied his pockets on the hood, and ran his ID. When it came back clean, he removed the cuffs and allowed him to go.
The Federal courts call that a false arrest and a violation of both 1st and 4th amendment rights, whether or not it was racially motivated.
Did he chase the guy shown here away because he was in the only shady spot big enough for the ATV, and the cop wanted to park it there to make a call on his cellphone, or because this cop is a misogynistic racist, and the guitarist was the only Black on the lawn?
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