It's OK to Stand United ... It is OK to be who you are :)
"Imagin one day your sitting or Laying down ... minding your business ... working and completing your everyday task of submitting your Works from writing or design jobs you've completed to getting ready to be paid for jobs done, while organizing the next job in line to be. You are deep in thought, then all-of-a-sudden, out of nowhere, you are confronted by gang members in uniform called 'Police Officers', interogated like you are a common criminal, accused of things that haven't happened yet or not as they are, and threatenned in several different ways of being arrested, all for not accepting assitence you don't/didn't need."
-Nathaniel Hammel
This is what happened to me on Friday the 29th of May around noon.
As most videos recorded, most times there are parts you do not get to see, things such as you will wittness in my 1st video
bellow. The Sceane really started with 2 Police Officers (1 I knew a Park Ranger, and 2 his Sargent). The sargent Approched me and told me to pack up and leave the park because I was breaking park rules. I ask what rule, He respoinded saying that you cannot laydown on blankets or any under padding, that it is called 'Illigal Camping" ... an "Ordinance".
I began to try and inform these officers that that ordinance is against my constitutional rights! The Sargent proceeded with the Question of "Why are you homeless" I responded with "I am not Homeless" and I said the same thing that you will see me say again inside this 1st video. As I continued to stand up for my rights the Park ranger tells me "Nathan, please comply with my Sargent before you make thing worse for your self" I responded with "Wait ... how can I make things worse formyself if I have not committed a crime, what are you planning"? The Sargent stepped in a signalled for the park ranger to step aside, and then told me my answer: "If you do not accept my assitance I will call in others that will help you accept them." This is when I said loadly "I am going to record this and turned on my phones camera.** NOTE**: That the officer reffused to repeat his statement with silence when I asked him to say what he said again for the camera.
Police Encounter Flamingo Park - Miami Beach, Fl - Part One - Catching the Lies of the Police Agents!
I did not realize that my camera stopped recording. This is why: If you notice at the very end where the video stopped the Sargant began to circle me and as i tried to keep the camera on him and I accedently hit the stop record button on accedent. NOTE: Whe a cop is circling you he is trying not only to upset and intimidate, but to distract you from what the other officers may do when you are looking away with both eye and camera.
Police Encounter Flamingo Park - Miami Beach, FL - Part Two - Tumble 1/ Police 0
Here is the thing ... Some Education for your mind ... Some Information that will help you when facing police in this way.
1st ... Try to stay as calm as you can be and stay seated on the ground (get on the ground if you are not already there), as you can see in the videos it is not easy to do.
2nd) Always record video and sound when cops approch you (do not take so long to record like I did here)
3rd ... Do not be affraid to speak your mind
4th ... Know all of you ammendments (you do not always have to list them out to police officers who are there with you, just notify when you know as you can see I only named one amendment (remember that what you say can give time for the offence to stratigize an attc to your deffences in a court room. The less you say the better)
These are the Rights you need to know about public spaces such as a Public Park
- Ordennaces are not crimes (as you heard from the 2nd video)
- The 1st Ammendment clearly states that: THE RIGHT TO FREELY AND PEACEFULLY ASSEMBLE IN PUBLIC SPACES
- The 14th Ammendment Protects you from State and local governments from creating and/or enforcing laws that deprive us from our Liberty, Freedoms, and Property.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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