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Back story For those of you unaware, Long Island Auditor is a "First Amendment Frauditor" who goes around to different government institutions mostly Police and Sheriff departments and tries to act suspicious and cause a scene then when confronted claim "I'm an independent journalist exercising m7 first amendment rights"

Months prior to the incident he got into an altercation with a Connecticut state trooper, which is important information.

Incident On July 11th Long Island Auditor decided to find and go to that specific Troopers house and "ask him questions about overtime" when he arrives, the Trooper opens the door and yells at him to get the fuck off his property.

He starts slowly walking backwards still recording when the trooper goes back in to grab his firearm and gets in his face yelling at him to never step foot on his property again (reminder this clown lives in NYC and made a 3 state trip to go bother the trooper) then as Long Island Audit keeps running his mouth the trooper bumps him and spits in his face.

Then the Frauditor keeps crying about it and pretending like he didn't just go to this troopers house with the sole intention of harassing him.

The local police arrive and he starts trying to get the trooper arrested. He instead is the one arrested with his camera man and they spend 5-6 hours in jail charged with voyeurism, breaching the peace and criminal tresspass. Which requires you to have a "license" to enter a place that isn't open to the public which obviously when you get into a fight with someone it means they aren't going to welcome you to their home as a stranger.

Current events

He's made several videos trying to get the Trooper charged, asking for GoFundMe legal fees and crying about the fact that he now faces real jail time. He had to pay a combined 125K dollars in bail money.

In closing People who try to make a living off of lawsuits by going around instigating people and harassing people deserve whatever consequences come their way. The Auditor community is 99% frauds just looking to get rich off of your tax payer money.

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[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Look no one should be harassed, ever, period. But this tracks as typical cop behavior to escalate harassment to assault (spitting) and brandishing a weapon and threats of violence. The final outcome is that the cop's actions are waved and the harasser 's actions are maximized criminally.

Harasser should have possibly criminal charges and cop should be put on leave for being unprofessional in an easily deescalated situation and possibly criminal charges for assault and threats.