Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "NY Police u0026 Officials CAUGHT Breaking The Law (VIDEO)" video.

These auditors are pitiful. They go out of their way to provoke trouble, waste police time, then you promote them as heroes when the police respond. The police don't have the time to become experts in every single law that this trouble making p*ssant exploits. This fool is just as bad as those pathetic sovereign citizens. I can't stand the police but I hope with all my heart that your house is being burgled one day while these police are wasting their time on this supercillious a**hole. He's not "auditing" anything. He's just scum. That woman was polite and patient but this asshat repeatedly insulted her until she very reasonably lost patience.
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@alexalavez4694 The first amendment is freedom of speech. Not sure what that has to do with freedom to film. And even THAT has restrictions. There's absolutely no way that you could simply say "Freedom to film" and use that to film anywhere you wanted, even on government property.
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@alexalavez4694 Thank you for the clarification Alex, but Freedom of the press is not limitless. He cannot simply walk into the police chief's office and start filming paperwork. He cannot walk into the middle of a murder scene, area 51 or a school. I don't know exactly what the limits are, and I doubt you do either.
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@edbigtruck The right to be a douchebag and waste police time? Knock yurself out. You're free to do that - you're an American.
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@gregriley8548 They're not revealing bad cops - they're driving ordinary cops to impatience. These auditors are the lowest of the low. If they wanted to educate cops about obscure laws, there are better, less confrontational ways to do so.
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@Skoora It wasn't a power trip at all. The woman correctly wondered why a random guy was wondering around a public building filming. Her first words were not at all in attack mode. His supercillious and patronising tone CREATED the confrontation, to which the second cop came along to assist. If the "auditor" spoken to a random man out on the street like that, he'd likely receive a broken nose for the way he behaved, and I would feel zero sympathy for it. No member of the press core would get away with addressing officials like this. This is not journalism. Journalists report stories, they don't create them. The fact that fools like him have become so common that SOME cops are actually prepared for it is an indictment on what he is doing, and worse still, by antogonising at absolute random, he's detracting from the genuinely despicable cops who should be in jail or on death row. Ironically, because he's so thin skinned, Trump almost limited freedom of the press, and watching this nonsense, I kinda wish he had.
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@gregriley8548 Like the second amendment, there's a lot of latitude for interpretation, especially as video was not even conceived of when it was drafted. Also, not sure what freedom of speech has to do with the freedom to go filming anywhere you like on public property.
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@alexandrae5346 "o your logic is a cop who doesn't know the laws he's enforcing has the right to get pissed, attack and break the law himself because someone tells him calmly the law? " I made no such assertion. Cops are human beings. If you treat them like shit, they have emotions. By your own statement, this professional cop harrasser "always verifies the laws and codes before he goes" - so he has the luxury of entering prepared and certain of his legal footing, then they are expected to know about all statutes and laws, and moreover, if they don't use precisely the right language, they're bad cops in your book? Sounds to me like you'd have more empathy for the Karens than the people charged with trying to keep us safe.
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@alexandrae5346 I made no such assertion. Does it make you feel clever to straw man people?
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@alexandrae5346 "you can't politely question a cop, record it, all legally, without expecting a cop to hurt them, arrest them etc." please cite a single quote where I said a person can't POLITELY question the police, or that it's ACCEPTABLE for a cop to hurt or arrest them. There's only 26 comments and a third of them are you talking bullshit Go on, I'll wait.
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@alexandrae5346 "Man up to your own actions or sit down" I just invited you to prove YOUR lies, and YOU backed down. I literally backed up my actions by calling you a liar and inviting you to prove me wrong and YOU pussed out. You're done. GTFOOH you joke! You're dismissed kid. 🤣🤣🤣
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@acrtez To be clear, I am not saying he does not have the legal RIGHT to film in that location. I am saying that the debate about what is his right is muddy enough that I would not expect a couple of ordinary police to have expertise and be able to render an accurate judgement of that fact on the spot. He KNOWS that, which is precisely why he provokes these confrontations. He's not a warrior for freedom - he's a douche poking a sleeping tiger. He's like a cop who discovered some incredibly obscure law about not walking faster than a cow on a sunday and goes around harrassing people for doing it.
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@mlk08012 I think that the constitution is like the Bible - millions of people use it as a weapon, but virtually none of them are well versed in what it actually says, or attempt to follow it all. Everyone is big on the 1st and 2nd amendments, but I'm gonna bet that almost no Americans know much beyond that. So when it comes to INTERPRETATIONS of the constitution, (something that the nation's best paid lawyers cannot even agree upon) no, I absolutely do not expect police to know it, nor should they have to.
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@SABOARITI "God given" huh? 🤣🤣🤣
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@cindiautry365 Have you ever seen the vast tomes of law in every attorney's office? It's completely unreasonable to expect police to know all of the laws that may affect their jobs.
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@cindiautry365 I completely accept that. I guess the grey area might be whether someone has an expectation of privacy while at work in a public building.
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@phill2035 Just like every single member of humanity. You'd prefer that I pretended expertise?
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@belowfray5251 A "steeple" huh? Maybe learn how to type before calling people fools. But for the record, anyone who uses the word "sheeple" is automatically dismissed in my book as a terminal Dunning Kruger victim with more unjustified confidence than intelligence.
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@andrethegiant2877 "We must all bow down to the police" Nothing could be further from the truth, but when people go out of their way to provoke a confrontation on issues that the average police would not be expected to know about, my sympathies are with the police, who are, on paper at least, trying to protect us. That said, I definitely have sympathies for your argument about the disparity between the way the police treat us, and the way that we must treat them. However, the role is NOT symmetrical. They HAVE to maintain some degree of authority to function, and as such, that necessitates a certain bearing and delivery. Ultimately, much as the rebel in us may dislike that attitude, would you sooner live in a world with no police, because it's hard to have one without the other.
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