I'm sorry. What are you doing? I'm sitting here. It's just a weird spot to chill. You was just at the hotels first and now you're here. Huh? Am I free to go? I'm asking you questions. So, I'm not free to go. Uh, you got any ID on you? So, you you're in a suspicious area, a suspicious spot. John, you got ID or anything? Why we breathing so heavy? You you okay? So, I'm not free to go right now. You're just under investigation. Okay. Okay. Well, you just told me that you suspect me of a crime. So, at this time, I'm going to remain silent and I've declined to answer any questions without an attorney present. Okay. Are you doing something you're not supposed to or? Pursuant to the Fifth Amendment, I decline to answer any questions. When a driver is confronted by officers in a suspicious area, asserting their rights, can shift the encounter's dynamic. The Fifth Amendment states, "No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself by immediately invoking their right to remain silent and requesting an attorney." The driver halts the officer's attempts to elicit incriminating responses. This strategic move exposes the officer's lack of clear evidence as they pivot from vague accusations to questioning the driver's knowledge of their names. The driver's firm stance underscores how corrupt cops falter when faced with constitutional protections. How are you tonight, Officer Robinson? What? How are you tonight? Good. Good. How are you, Officer Fluke? How do you know our name? airport here. Huh? Is there something you don't understand about I invoke my fifth amendment right to not answer questions? Okay. Well, it's just weird, man. So, let's go ahead and get going. Okay. You're kind of blocking me. You can go to the right. It'll take you to old Highway 42. Well, if I want to go to the left, you want to go to the left? Is that what you want? I'll depart when y'all depart. Okay, cool. Have a good night. You, too. The driver's insistence on departing only when the officers do highlights their refusal to be intimidated. Here's another incident when cops messed with the wrong guy. Man, hanging out. No. You can't have a speaker down here, right? Uh, what law is that? Really? Yeah. You're welcome to look it up. If I look it up for you, I can write you a citation. That's fine. Well, you can't have a You can't have a Are you referring to 21-52? Do you have a permit for the speaker? Uh, I got permission as far as uh utilizing the public space for who? You know, the First Amendment. So, you those guys, huh? Yeah. Where you want to go that route, man? Well, I just want to let y'all know that uh this is a public park. Okay. So, you cannot have a speaker anywhere near I just don't know what law that is. Like, if you could help me out, I can research it for you by writing you the ticket. I go by 21-52. Go ahead and look it up yourself. I go by I go by 21-52 which is doesn't say we can't have a speaker on the Riverwalk unless there's a law I don't know about. I would love to be educated. There is one. Yeah, man. If you could educate me, it would be great. But I'm expressing myself out here. I don't have my ID on me, but I can give you my name. Name of. Okay. Bet. Remember you wanted to go this route. No, it's on y'all. You're y'all it's y'all's discretion the option. We gave you the option to go this route. It's your discretion, sir. It's your discretion. What's your I'm not a San Antonio police officer. I'm letting you choose. Yeah. What do you all want from me? I I'll give you the name. But what what do you mean choose? I just want to make get that going. Without a permit, you can't have a speaker down there. What permit would I get? A permit to use a speaker down. Lita cuz I I spoke I just spoke to Lavita, the management there. She said that this is a public space and if I want to utilize it as a as a public space. Tracy. Tracy. Tracy. I can call her right now. Sure. Did someone complain or y'all just passing by? No, I'm passing. Observing the Well, in that case, sir, y'all are just passing by and I want y'all to know, I'll work with y'all. I want to work with y'all. I If you want to show me what what ordinance it is, I would love to be educated, but I go by the law. I I'm not breaking any laws. I was expressing myself. I'm resetting for another show. I do a break dance comedy show. I've been here for many years. I've known that people have many years on the Alamo Plaza. A street performer on the San Antonio Riverwalk faces park police scrutiny for using a speaker igniting a heated dispute in San Antonio's code of ordinances section 21-52. It stated that the playing or permitting or causing the playing of any radio, television, phongraph, drum, jukebox, Nickelodeon, musical instrument, sound amplifier, or similar device constitutes a noise nuisance when disturbing. The performer, fluent in local regulations, questions the officer's broad use of this law. He insists that without a public complaint or decibel evidence, the ordinance doesn't hold. The officers, unprepared, demand a permit, but can't specify the rule banning amplified sound. This encounter kicks off a battle of wits between authority and an informed citizen. And I know. No. Well, here here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I'm not done speaking. Uh here's the thing. If y'all would love to listen. Is that cool? Me, too. Yeah. You don't have to. I got you. Okay. So, a lot of y'all have kicked out a lot of buskers on the on the Riverwalk. And y'all always say, and y'all by San Antonio Police Department always say that we can't be down here. And here's the thing. I'm an advocate for the street performers. And that's why I'm in this public place moving around, making sure that I'm within the ordinances. And that's what I'm doing down here. I'm advocating. I'm protesting my right to be in a public space. And also, I'm practicing my religion. So I don't understand. Uh so so just to go back. So without the speaker, I'm allowed to be out here. the law because last one I checked was a 21-52. That's the one that always comes up and we can go over it. You can give me your interpretation and if y'all want to get the the ticket going, I'll accept the ticket. The tickets are always thrown away because as you know, um there has to be uh a device to measure my sound if I'm breaking ordinances because they go by that same they go by that same law and I've already done my due diligence with smokes. Talked to the artist over there. So So that's that's for a noise complaint. Yeah. This isn't about noise. It's about using an amplified device. I hear you. You see the difference? Well, uh, like I said, I would love to be educated if, uh, you could show me that if you could be courteous to show me, cuz I know you don't have to. So, you still want me to look it up for you or you want to look it up yourself? I mean, to my knowledge, 21-52 is the one that I've been going by. I've been down here for the last 5 weeks and I have had a problem. First time, second time I've seen a boat cops. Y are the second second people that I've seen and honestly the other ones passed by. Y'all came up and y'all are saying y'all didn't get a call. Just the cor right to be correct. So y'all just passing by. You're giving me information. Um and yeah, I'm willing to work with you. I can lower down the speaker if y'all get a complaint. Can't use a speaker at all. I hear you. Well, I go by 20 I go by the law and if you're saying that there's a law that I don't know about, I would love to be educated and if you need to send me give me a ticket to educate me, then Okay. Let me get your first, last name, date of birth. All right. Which one is it since you know at the top of your head or you got to look it up? No. No. I'm going to look it up. Appreciate it. Thank you. You like I said research. Thanks. I'm going to find out right now. And you just not have a driver's license or ID or I don't have it on me. Yeah. Is it Texas? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Much love. Where y'all from? I'm from New Orleans. She's from Galveston, but we Much love. Yeah, our cops make sure that everything is by the books here. You know what I mean? Got to love it. How long y'all been on the force? I'm sorry. Oh, thank you so much for being so technical. But four years. Oh, nice. Y'all been down here a while then? Yeah, I've been down here on the riverw walk at least 3 years. Nice. And you same thing. Four years. Rodriguez. Dang. 25. Oh, okay. So, you've seen some things down here. Yeah, man. But you said you've been down here. No, I mean down here as in downtown. Uh, you said you've been down here for a while. I just corrected it. I I told you downtown. Now you've been downtown for downtown. I've been here for the last 5 weeks. Why are you very argumentative? Or why you very argumentative? You want to cooperate earlier? I'm cooperating. I gave you all my information. Right. I turned off the the speaker wasn't on. I didn't say that. I never said that. Why you Why you upset? You said you knew more than we did, didn't you? No, I didn't. I I said I said I knew the law that pertains to me. I don't know all the laws. That's why I'm saying if y'all educate me. I'm trying to get information, sir. You're you're a member get information. You're doing you're a public servant, sir. I'm I'm a member of the public. So, I would I would appreciate if you call a a lieutenant out here or or a supervisor. You're not doing that. Who's Who's the Who's the Who's the superintendent? Who's the superintendent tonight? Who's the superintendent? Who Who's your supervisor? Who's your supervisor? You're right. You're right. You got me on that one. Who's your supervisor today? I need to know you. I would. That's part of the policy as part of the park police policy. What policy is that? Where did you read that from? Uh sapd.org, sir. So you just, you know, mention police department. Oh, y Oh, that's where the miscommunication is. Y'all park police. Y'all didn't pass the test. Sorry about that. That's crazy. or of the press or the right of the people peaceibly to assemble, safeguarding his expressive activities. He frames his breakdance comedy show as both artistic and religious expression legally protected in public areas. The officers brush off his constitutional argument, fixating on the speaker as the issue. Their dismissal of his legal reasoning betrays a reliance on authority over dialogue. Yo, that's insane. I'm sorry. My My bad for the confusion. Wow. You're very hostile. But I don't blame you because learning from someone that's been on the force for 25 years. It's not your fault. It's the person that you're taking lead from. And you don't have to be so uptight, sir. I'm I'm talking to you. Gave you my information. I don't have to give you my information cuz I wasn't violating the law. You're still looking for it? 21-52. That's why I don't want to look it up. 20 21-52. I I guess I knew a little bit more that before your vet. Yeah. Did you talk to Tracy? She didn't answer. She had a long day today, man. They had a wedding here earlier. Yeah. Very exhausted. when I got to her earlier, she was like, "Man, I just want to go home." So, I understand the confusion. But yeah, from her consensus is this is a public space. She said anything uh over here, I could utilize it as a public space, and that's what I was doing. Um I, as you said, I didn't get no complaints. So, y'all doing this is by your discretion. And I appreciate you uh giving me the time to talk to me cuz I don't have a lot of people to talk. I'm sorry. Yeah, cuz you're an overseer. Is it is going to be out here with amplified speaker. Yeah, but you have to have at least the code, sir. Come on. [Music] Will you be at court? I would love to have you there. Thank you. That's what they always say. Oh, man. While you're looking for that, can I go get some water? The water fountain's right there, bro. I'm being detained, dude. I'm bringing the ticket yet. Okay. No, no uh ticket should be for an absurd amount of time. You should have known this already if you're coming up to me. Well, I mean, my intention was I actually don't have Tik Tok. My intention was just to I I actually Yeah. Well, you didn't get a complaint and you didn't even know the law. So So look, bro, check it out. No Tik Tok on my phone. I do have Instagram and YouTube. Thank you. But I appreci Huh. I do have YouTube. I do have YouTube and you will be on there. Oh man, I'm extremely thirsty. I appreciate you being cool, bro. Thank you for that. Usually I get a lot of cops like this guy right here, your your buddy. and uh being that I have a cool cop to explain things to me and even though you had to go the direction obviously you didn't want to you said but I do appreciate that and if I ever run into some trouble down here I would love to call y'all without the attitude created signage oh this is for the amphitheater sorry uh 52 A1 so you right Yeah, sir. Uh, can I just, uh, since we already got on to it, can we do talk about that real quick? Um, since we already know which one it is. So, the thing is that for that law, I'm very versed in it because I deal with the same thing on the ground level. And as long as I like you would have to come out here with your amplified device, with your your noise meter out here, your decibel meter, you have to measure it if we go to court cuz all they're going to do is throw that away. So, really, you're just giving me a headache for for no reason. And then we all have to show up and then nobody wants litigation. Like we understand that that's the one I was talking about. So yeah, but that's not the one I was talking about. Oh, okay. Let me do a little more. You're good. Sorry. Sorry about that. But I really am thirsty, bro. If you can do me that solid. The water fountain's right there. I was just dancing. That's why. Nice to meet you, man. I wasn't trying to give you a hard time. I I want to be cordial with y'all. I'm going to be down I'm going to be down here the city on the riverw walk. I'm exploring this beautiful city of public spaces and that's the whole thing that I do. So yeah, man. I'll work with y'all. If y'all get a complaint, by all means, I'll lower it down. But I I like to stay within the law and get educated if I don't know something. But as far as I know right now, I was correct. 21-52. And that doesn't say that I can't have a speaker. Oh, so I understand 2160 riverwalk 602. Yeah. But at the top of that, it says by the owners and management of therefore. And y'all didn't get a call. We already established that. And it has 72 dB right there. And it reflects the 2152. His familiarity with Supreme Court rulings on street performance fuels his confident resistance. The officer's threat of a citation falters as they struggle to site a precise ordinance beyond section 21-52. It's noted that measurements may be taken at a point on adjacent private property or on either side of an adjacent public right of way mandating decibel checks they fail to conduct. The performer's call for a supervisor highlights their weak grasp of procedure. Their persistence, despite no complaint, reveals an abuse of discretion. He offers cooperation if shown the exact law, but the officers escalate, prioritizing control over clarity. This exchange exposes their overreach against a legally astute opponent. So the the number one on there says the playing or permitting or causing the playing of any radio, television, phonogram, drum, jukebox, nicerodian, musical instrument, sound amplifier or similar device which produces reproduces or amplifies when done in a manner. That's the very important part of that. That's the period right there. Then it goes on to number two. I get you. But before that it says when done in the the manner. That that's the important part. So it so y'all would have to get a call and then y'all would have to So it says when done in this manner um to annoy, distress, cause harm. That part is the part that we always deal with and as y'all said, y'all didn't get a call. So like I will work with y'all. So if y'all get a call, like obviously I'm going to lower down and then we'll go over. I have my decibel meter, too. Like I dot my my tees and dot dot my eyes and cross my tees because I have to be safe for myself. I've been down here for 15 years. I'm a frequent street performer down here and uh yeah, man. It's all respect. So I actually got a video if you want to see it. Pretty cool, right? You got That's pretty cool. Did you have a permit? No, I just showed up, man. And uh so my my whole thing is that I if it's a public space, I'm allowed to street perform and busk. And I' I've heard the stories about the street performers getting kicked out. And it it's something dear to me that I I wanted to come down here and advocate. Obviously, we don't want this to be a circus down here, right? We want we want people to go by the law. And uh that's what I do. I I educate the street. Uh just expressing myself, my my religion. Um I'm a Christian. And then I do my busking, which is my art. Also part of my religion is is is expressing myself in public spaces and uh protesting my right to be in public spaces is something I've been uh doing for the last three three four years because I've gotten arrested for this several times. I have litigation against the city. So I that's why I'm versed on it. It wasn't trying to be a jerk that one time. Yeah. Hitting with all that nonsense. That's what started it. That's what started everything when I think I was like in the park, but uh it was a miscommunication or whatever that day too. I don't know if you're talking about the same day, but I was put in handcuffs and that's what started the whole litigation. So, yeah, man. We're still we're still in court. Uh and we're about to appeal to the fifth circuit court. Uh street performing has been to the Supreme Court and it has precedent there. So once we appeal it, all these things that have restricted us before, because how I see it, the city kind of looks down on street performing a little bit, but when it comes to the mariachis, they're different. And I hear they have a permit, but the truth is they they don't have a permit. They they say they do because that's how they get rid of the problems, but they don't offer no permit cuz I've searched. I've looked for it and they had they don't really offer it. So what I'm doing is showing the city that we're going to be down here. I I think they're hired right that and that's un I I get it. Some some things are different, right? But as far as what I'm doing here, like I said, man, I'm going to work with y'all. If y'all got if y'all get a complaint and you say, "Hey, man, just take off for the day. I'm going to take off. Let me get out of your hair." Like, as you can see, there wasn't there wasn't nobody in danger. Nobody was I wasn't offending nobody. Yeah, I get it. That's not what this is all about. Yeah. Can't have any appetite. Yeah. On the river. Like we let that creature go walk around screaming. Oh snap. God or what? Right. Only have nothing amplified. Yeah. But when he comes out with a speaker and microphone, that's when it becomes a violation. I hear you. Um, like I said, I would love to know that law that you're referring to. And uh, we're going to be best friends, man. I know it. I know we're going to see each other a lot now cuz I really love this spot. And especially that I talked to Tracy and she said anything past those right there is a public space unless I want to rent that. And I can't rent that until January. I have tried my due diligence to rent that over there. That way I could cross my tees and dot my eyes, but they're not accepting applications. Well, then that's fine. If Tracy loves cuz she's the one in charge of blocking. Yeah. If she says, she says fine. It's not really her giving. Send us an email and say, "Hey, yeah, that's cool. Be alone and and perform out here." Yeah, that's cool. That's less people you got to deal with. You're good, man. Did you figure it out? Yeah, we're going to Okay. Well, it's going to get thrown out, but I appreciate the headache. Motion. No more speakers down here. I'm going to keep using it. If you catch it on here again, I'm going to take it as evidence. That's fine. They did it last time. It It's on you. If you want litigation, that's on you. We'll get through this. We will get through it, sir. Yep. Like I said, man, I'm willing to work with y'all, but if y'all want to go through this whole song and dance, y'all didn't even get a complaint. It's horrible. Who was the supervisor you were speaking to? Thank you. Okay. You're very familiar with it already. your signature down here. Just a promise here. See y'all soon. I just want to be very clear. I am going to continue utilizing my First Amendment and I'm going to continue to make sure that I'm not in violation of 21-52. It's your interpretation that that I'm breaking 21 fast 52, but y'all didn't even pull out y'all's decibel meters. So, if y'all really want to go this route, I'm giving you advice. Use the decibel meter cuz it might have some sort of evidence on y'all's part. But, if y'all want to take my speaker for evidence, very disrespectful, but y'all can do whatever y'all want. And I'm going to still continue to utilize my my uh First Amendment, and I'm going to be out here lawfully. I'm going to go get my water now. It was good. Hold on. Hold on. You're not free to go. You can use your First Amendment. Can't use a speaker. All right. So I see you at the speaker again. I'm going to take a breath. I'll see you soon. Can I go get my water now? Appreciate it. Peace. Tata. Despite receiving a ticket, the performer remains resolute, vowing to continue his lawful performances. Under section 21-53, it's unlawful to operate any device that creates vibration above the vibration perception threshold at 5050 ft from the source if in a public space. But the officers skip measuring any disturbance. He notes courts often dismiss such tickets without decibel evidence. The officer's threat to confiscate his speaker only strengthens his determination. He pledges to keep championing street performers rights. Undaunted by their tactics. This clash showcases a citizen outsmarting overzealous authority with legal knowledge and tenacity. Like and subscribe for more police cam stories. Watch the next recommended video. Click to watch now.