first footage of police harrasment at ocean beach chili cookoff 2013

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• published: 23 Jun 2013
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learn more about the artist at http://www.mindmagickcreations.com this is a video about 1st amendment rights,, Learn more about those rights by searching us busking. .. **** .. You can see the first encounter from a phone recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boXwboKL45w&feature;=youtube_gdata_player (in the first encounter Officver keif at one point says I am begining to feel threatend. which is generally what a cop says right before they shoo someone.. I find this funny because he is the one that had a gang of police officers all carrying leathel weapons, sourounding me. yet he felt threatend... ) Officer keif arrived i tried to explain the actual law, and the officer ignored me while refusing to cite the code I was violating meanwhile treating me like a criminal the whole way.. there was even one point where an actual criminal selling dope walks by talking about having dope for sale and the cops ignore him while they bust my balls, the sergeant that enters on screen is sargant vargas.. he tells me it is illegal to sell art or accept donations for the art... he tells me that i can't do it live... I try to inform him that he is the one violating the law of the firs amendment.. he ignored what I was saying and told me to shut it down.. so I stopped painting. later I had more issues with cops on the same day at ocean beach street fair and chili cook off. at 11:15 in the video you can clearly hear a guy say, " my homeboy has an 8 ball for sale right now." admission to a crime (selling distributing, or trafficking a schedule II drug) a right behind the officers, I caught it on film, if the camera heard it, and I heard it, then so did the cops, they completely ignored a real crime, while discussing a way to make me leave and to legally violate my rights. Which can be heard moments before this man speaks about the 8 ball. .. ... at 16:45 officer leif asks for my social security number.. I inform him that on the back of the card it says it is illegal to give out social security number to anyone other than an employer.. the cop didn't even know that law... as you can hear him say" does it really say that. " at 15:47 in the video the people say we want him to stay do we get a vote.. LOL all talking about me. BTW you can learn more about busking and how the US laws dirrectly effect buskers and artists by going to this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busking_(U.S._case_law) also there are two other polcie activities that happend shortly after this one, even when I stopped painting,, here is one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg56XqpC1qY&feature;=c4-overview&list;=UUk0H_SGjic-CaY_l5_pjtGQ and then in this one here the officer threatens to take my art.. which is a federal crime, under color of law. also recently becasue of my activism for performers rights there was an article in the san diego city beat about me you can read it here .http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-12100-its-busk-or-bust-for-san-diego-street-performers.html "update shortly after this happend i wrote to the citizens review board of police about this,, they contacted the sd pd and a captain officerr marshal white came down to speek with me,, he apologized for the action of the officers in the vide and basically asked me that if i suied the department to put in a good word for him.. so aprently he was a little worried about me suing them.. either way I was told i was well within my rights and that the officers in question had vioplated them.. i have ben working with the city to try and change these codes but with the mayor gone and the political circus going on,, its been rather difficult to get anything done. if you want to know more read the comments,, I have provided plenty of information there. if you have any questions concerning busking in san diego and are an artist, musician, performer or any form of busker please join our group on facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/sdbuskers/