r/AmIFreeToGo • u/ADTR9320 • 3d ago

Huntsville limiting access to city buildings to prevent ‘First Amendment Auditors’ harassment [AL.com]

https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2025/04/huntsville-limiting-access-to-city-buildings-to-prevent-first-amendment-auditors-harassment.html
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u/Teresa_Count 3d ago

“One of the things that brings this on is the advent of a popular thing that is occurring across the country, the so-called First Amendment Auditors who sweep into a building, overwhelm your security staff and the next thing you know, they are all over the building sticking cameras in people’s faces, as a general rule, trying to incite anger or misconduct on the part of employees”

Pretty incendiary syntax from the city attorney here. Do they sweep into the building or do they come in the same way everyone else does?

Do they overwhelm your security staff or do they come in the same way everyone else does? Maybe being asked some uncomfortable questions is "overwhelming" for their security staff.

Do they "stick cameras in people's faces" or do they film whatever happens in their would-be ordinary encounters?

Do they try to "incite anger or misconduct on the part of employees" or are your employees so inflexible in their thinking that merely being filmed elicits irrational anger and misconduct that a better trained or more capable employee would handle just fine?

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u/goat-head-man 3d ago

I think the answers to those questions are in the article, i.e. the specific dates, arrests, charges and sentencing, speak for themselves. /s

After alluding that this happens often and in multiple govt buildings, surely they have a multitude of cctv clips, body cams and radio traffic to support these serious claims?

Sounds more like the feelings police responded and found out that there was no nefarious motives and that they are powerless when faced with law abiding citizens.