i m not going to let you see my badge number. you re harassing me. when the cops come, you ll get it. that woman was just trying to intimidate me, and it doesn t work. i don t get intimidated. i know that what i m doing is right. i want your badge number. it s video camera versus cell phone camera. the battle is on. we can stand here all day. all day. why are you harassing me? we can stand here all day. i want to know why you re following me around harassing me. we can stand here all day. you just touched my camera. we can stand here all day. that s attempted criminal mischief. we can stand here all day. attempted criminal mischief, ma am. all day. that s a misdemeanor in this county. all day. i want your badge number. you have nothing else to do, right? you don t have anything else to do? i want your badge number. get back. i reminded her that it s not illegal to take photographs or video on the street, and if she s trying to say that sh
me. and his response was, i didn t assault you, all i did was hold my hand up and you ran into my hand. looking at the video again, the passenger can be seen removing the placard from the dashboard as the officer grabs the camera. do you normally block fire hydrants and misuse your official police department placard when you go shopping with your family, officer? the officer drives away, but only after one last moving violation, an illegal u-turn over a double yellow line. by filming their activity over the last several years, jimmy justice has established a special relationship with authorities. i ve been doing this for a few years already, and all the traffic enforcement agents in new york city are aware of who i am. they don t like me. jimmy justice says he often films on the streets, even if there are no violations to record. sometimes i like to just keep rolling tape. that s my system. that s how i operate. i m not sure when action will happen, so i always have the cam
justice heads off to his next mission. he spots an officer ticketing an suv illegally parked in a bus stop. when the officer is followed to the next violation, she lets jimmy justice know he s in a no-standing zone. ow! what are you hitting me for? stop! move away why are you hitting me? you have no permission to touch me. you just broke the law! you broke the law, you assaulted me! as quickly as she arrives, the parking enforcement officer moves on. again, no charges are filed. it s all just a typical day on the streets for a video vigilante. i ve been assaulted, i ve been spit at, i ve been pushed and i ve had cameras broken. i ve been threatened with arrest. i ve been threatened with bodily harm. the only way that i m going to stop is when police officers and other city officials stop breaking the law. for anyone looking to follow in his footsteps, jimmy justice says he has some rules.
the county sheriff calls the incident embarrassing. a gutter ball for the cops with a little too much time to spare. what are you doing? what are you doing? you can t touch me. an off-duty police officer lashes out after a video vigilante confronts more cops behaving badly. at home or at work, he goes by his real name, but on the streets, he s known as jimmy justice. it s about justice. for the average joe in new york, who s trying to get to work and is constantly being given a hard time by the cops for every tiny parking infraction that we do, and i ve turned the tables on them. jimmy justice works as an audio systems engineer, but in his off time, he hits the road to catch what he says is a blatant disregard for the law by authorities.
it s an emergency to write a $115 summons, to generate revenue for the city? is that the emergency? is that the emergency? that is an emergency, sir. i pull him over. i thought an emergency is when somebody s life is in danger. maybe your life is in danger. it is completely inappropriate for a traffic enforcement agent to threaten a civilian and tell them that their life is in danger. why is my life in danger? you call yourself a police officer. shame on you! shame on you! jimmy says he knows he gets under the skin of law enforcement and government officials. but on this day he finds out the hard way, it s risky business. as he strolls down a new york city sidewalk on a nice spring afternoon, he sees several city vehicles parked illegally and decides to film them. but the man he s filming becomes increasingly agitated. this van, this one, and all