This thing is a transgender YouTube star looking to supposedly support first amendment rights by filming wherever and whenever they please. Seems like it likes controversy. Any one with any brains would use them if “filming architecture”at a Jewish school and ask first shot grazed its leg. Done to raise its profile no doubt.
I’m surprised that harassing a school isn’t some kind of violation akin to a noise prohibition.
If he/she/it is on a public street/sidewalk, they do have the right to film “wherever and whenever they please.” There is no indication that they were trespassing onto private property. It is not illegal to film something in plain view from a public street.
Even youtube freakazoids have inherent rights to speech and press. School security should have stayed on campus. In this case, it appears that guard overstepped their bounds.
NO. I watch a lot of these first amendment auditors. They do good work. They film from public. Perfectly legal. They don’t want confrontation, but they hold their ground if it comes.
It’s amazing how many people in govt think filming what people can see, from public, is illegal.
I support these photographers, as long as they’re not being asses, 100%
“This thing is a transgender YouTube star looking to supposedly support first amendment rights by filming wherever and whenever they please.”
You have the protected right to take pictures or video of anything you can see from a publicly accessible space. That can be a roadway, your front yard, the sidewalk in front of a police station, or the sidewalk in front of a synagogue.
In most states you also have the unfettered right to take pictures or video of any government employee who is on duty, in a publicly accessible space on public property, and that includes cops who stop you for traffic violations and etc.
In California the law is very clear that the mere act of taking pictures or video does not constitute probable cause for police to stop and question the photographer or videographer.
Synagogue, mosque, or church the rules are the same: People have a protected right to take pictures or video of these places from public property and that includes the sidewalk immediately adjacent to the private property.
And even weird people enjoy the same rights as everyone else.
To suggest otherwise is patently offensive to our Constitution.
Megan