Lukeville Port of Entry, US-Mexico Border First Amendment Rights, Photojournalism (trimmed version)

but that carton of cigarettes and a bottle of something to see bottle of work some kind of whiskey there's some kind of whiskey yeah I'm not trying to record you I just recorded everything you'll record everything yeah yeah I'm going to show you something real quick okay I want you to point your camera right here yeah what is yeah well I don't die huh okay I'm a journalist and this is my First Amendment right - of course it is okay pull up on the first over here okay yeah have a good day you'd like to call my lawyer at the ACLU yep you can you can talk to my lawyer at the ACLU her name is Mitra at the lobby lobby david lloyd called David Loy and he trap low wobbly oh honey good I don't know I was I was looking for a Daniel shaver have you seen him around here hmm I don't know that the Mesa the Mesa the Mesa the Mesa to police department like staged his death and I was just kind of looking around the country what's that yes I'm I'm declaring my First Amendment right to record and I'd also like if you'd like to call my lawyers David Loy and me travel Bobby at the ACLU in San Diego you can the ACLU is willing to challenge that your your interpretation of the law here and I'm doing that well that's fine and they can do that and and they need they need somebody to do it before they can do that they had somebody try already they didn't follow through and I'm here to follow through it so if you cannot record I've already been told I can record here I've had the supervisor here tell me I could record right here on the outside of this building okay would you like me to show you the law I've seen it I've read I've studied it I'm here to I'm here to change your interpretation of the law which I don't think applies here but this is not the it is not the proceeding that you can do that this is where it has to be done now that while they trying to do it in the federal court system and somebody didn't follow through I'm here to follow through it you have to have patience I've got patience but you can't come down here and violate existing law it is not what the violating law yes no you you think it's violating law I don't think it is the ACLU says it isn't and I am here to change I've got the law I've read it I'm telling you that you interpreted the law incorrectly and your boss said that you that it's okay to film out here he already told me it isn't I I'll give you my let me give you my card I'll give me your card let me have a look your ID okay okay he's got my when you were he's got my passport why is this not a point of contention when you are in this area I know it's being contended and I'm contending a federal inspector area okay let me see your ID so you're in the federal inspection area all right yeah well that's basically basically it says it constitutional right all right I have an exception to them just cuz you make a sign just because you make a sign does not make your interpretation correct once you are admitted beyond that stop sign okay okay the only place in in the United States where we're idiots interpret the law the way they want to interpret it and try to make me believe your interpretation I don't believe it the ACLU doesn't believe it your boss doesn't believe it he came out here and told me I could film out here my interpretation it is I nor you and the authority to interpret law okay well your boss said I can film out here that is the course that my boss does not have the authority to make that decision well I that the law says I can come out here in film if I have permission and I've been given permission loss as you can okay well you sort of it if you have again I've been given permission to film here I'm filming here right now well okay then what I'm going to do for you is I'm going to and you for prosecution with office chief counsel in Tucson I'm ready okay good that's what we're going to do because you are in violation federal law is course better I understand your feelings I don't care about my feelings I'm just I'm just challenging that law I don't disagree with your feelings but I disagree with the one all right right I disagree with the law to look right I am sworn officer I'm no other choice I have to enforce the law that's fine so I will recommend you for federal prosecution that'd be great with the Aussie pal that'd be great thank you but so right now you're telling me let me get a see if it's correct are you stating exactly that you refuse just just cease report I am and I'm advising you that you are in violation of law I and I'm saying I'm not and I and there's a and your boss said I'm not and and amazing else you said I'm not which boss I don't know he's kind of a geeky looking guy with a short hair and I got a video of him saying that it's okay to feel him out here but you don't know his name I don't remember his name do you have it I could pull it up and tell to show you legend huh I don't I don't recall I can give you I pull it up right now on my ipod and show you him telling me I could fill my right now is that you understand that no I don't understand that I understand you in Turkey I am I I say I'm not violating I don't interpret why okay that's fine that's fine I'm willing to let others interpret it the course yeah that's fine that that's fine but until your your opinion prevails if it does this it's not a my it's just what other people say I'm just I'm just here to time federal law existing federal law is what we actually I'm just here to to challenge it for for the other people prefer the lawyers that say it's okay I'm not I don't know law at all hardly okay I'm just I'm just going by what other people told me other lawyers and and I'm talking about federal law at this port of entry yeah no that's what you've been told to enforce and that's what you've seen you've read signs and you believe it I've seen it I've read it I've read it a few hundred times it's very it's better than having seen okay you did give me another copy I'd like you your copy to keep it be great 41 CFR something Oh 42 or 18 here sit okay like I say you you've uh you've researched along yourself yes is a little handout there okay Thank You Megan is this your correct mailing address which one right here on the nine four five yes that's crappy you have a phone number that way Anjali the AUSA two pounds to make contact with four eight zero four zero two two five six two five six two six seven three all right we'll have to get a hold of you and but it's not between you and I brick yes of course jurisdiction so we'll see what happens okay sigh well I'll be doing this Rebecca recommending your prosecution ok violation alright thank you sir alright have a good one appreciate her okay

Channel: Robert Trudell

Views: 231,396

Keywords: Lukeville, Port of Entry, US-Mexico Border, Border Patrol, Battle, Front Line, Mexico, United States, First Amendment, 1st Amendment, Rights, Flexing, Flexing our Rights, Own, Photojournalism, Room Cleaning, How the West was Won, Won, West, Arizona, USA, United States of America, Federal Court, Tucson District Office, 41CFR 102-74.420, David Loy, Mitra Ebadolahi, Terrorists, greet, greeting, Citizens, US Border, Law, Lawyer, Checkpoint, Refusal, trim, trimmed

Id: PtRjvi38xE0

Length: 13min 2sec (782 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 20 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/Xero-One]

So this guy seems to be trying to get charged for recording where there are signs posted saying no recording. This way he will have standing to proceed with a lawsuit. Says he has backing from the ACLU. I'll be surprised if the BP prosecutes him after he told them all that. The people up the chain know that those signs hold no bearing. They just use it as a reason to stifle recording. If you disregard the sign and record it is a reason to send you to secondary so they can lecture you on their authority.

I would argue that he was detained illegally in this stop. He was detained for filming which he has every right to do. They never asked him about his citizenship or where he was going. They just kept him for filming.

[u/TatianaWisla]

If your objective is to challenge this in court, don't argue with the guy. Just continue to record and tell him to put up or shut up.

[u/[deleted]]

So border guy was all talk?

[u/Boringmetoo]

Waaaaaayyy too much talking over each other. He could have just stated his purpose and told the cop to write him up and then shut up.

[u/velocibadgery]

Brave guy, willing to get charged with what is likely a felony just to have standing in court.