General Discussion

The First Amendment Auditor community is largely right wing and is followed widely by right wingers on socials. They're the guys who stand around masked with cameras filiming people going into and out of post offices, Trader Joes, and especially cannabis dispensaries (to be fair, they also do churches) trying to provoke people into claiming they're breaking the law, when of course you are free to record whatever on or from a public sidewalk. If you read the comments in the 1A auditor reels and posts, about 80% of it is laughing at "liberals" for complaining.

But this guy is doing the same thing, and using 1A auditor rhetoric: "I'm not breaking any law and you know it." And just standing there while the LE dipshit blows a gasket. It's also why the ICE assholes are (mis)citing the federal statute - they know that the 1A auditor operation is one in which the technical statutes are cited, so they're trying to make a counter-citation in advance. The guy filming is right to shoot it down. There's a part of this that comes from the Free Palestine protests: Free Palestine protestors, especially in NYC and California, took to using 1A Auditor methods on people dining outdoors, to great effect and with some hilarious footage.