Video collection of police harassment of artists and buskers

This is only a collection of the videos I have..  If you have a video of you busking or creating art and having been harassed by an LEO, please email me at merlinawakend@yahoo.com and I will add your video to this blog post.

Police harassment of artists and or buskers.

Ocean beach in 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU8U3hk6Z6g&t=4s

From san Diego harbor in 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07P3Btjg-C8&t=1s

Here is video from the port meeting in 2011/2012 about amending their port code
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBKpchhyplc

More selective enforcement by harbor police in 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H3Vnyg5BDs  

Another ticket for busking in the harbor of san diego in 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoifZzMX_lY&t=1s

And yet more selective harassment in the harbor of San Diego
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbZyLyT5-98

What the fans think of the art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvQ1W3Mnv9I and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh3Nk2Bd9CU  

Harrasment at ocean beach street fair 2013 ,
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaT89aZk_64
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umm58thluAQ&t=1s

This is from ocean beach street fair 2014… where officers again violate my rights.. This also is the 3rd encounter I have had with officer mondesir! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_aofwo4xvU&t=2s

Police encounter in old town at the Cinco De Mayo Fest

https://www.facebook.com/william.j.dorsett/videos/10152977445409965/

Earlier I mentioned a ticket I got at mission beach were the Judge helped the officer win leading me to believe it was not a fair trial.  In this video you can see how selective enforcement is because they cite me, but ignore the other street performer “The San Diego Silverman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_aofwo4xvU&t=2s

Next is video of Silverman performing in the harbor when private security tries to force him to leave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4V4PhiVf4

Next is video from San Diego Comic Con 2016 were after much deliberation police decided that it is well within our rights to display and sell my art
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDtnxq-5iUw
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IDgWpDtP4g&t=3s  

At the same event city code enforcement wouldn’t hear anything about constitutional protections, and they cited my friend for selling my art even though, we had plenty of evidence of our constitutional rights and protections.
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WyQcFyRFWE&t=517s
part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3tzODCNif0&t=75s

This eventually lead to Dashiel MacTavish (The San Diego Silverman) Receiving a $1500 dollar ticket  (for encroachment, sidewalk display, and soliciting), from city code enforcement, which when appealed they sent us to some administrative hearing that was clearly a violation of Due Process Constitutional protections.. They found Dashiel guilty all because of a picture of him opening my umbrella so he could sit in the shade on a hot july day!  We are currently appealing this case.

These last videos are from adams avenue street fair 2016
In these videos the officer tells me I have every right to be display and perform on the public sidewalk. Officer Mondesir continually lies on this video saying he can tell my fumes are going a certain direction though we can clearly prove in the video alone that the wind was not blowing in the direction he is claiming. He mentions the problem is my spray paint, but instead of citing me for a code violation concerning spray paint he pulls interfering with a street fair as his code violation.. (update) I went to court for this, and the case was dismissed. The lawyer said that the prosecution filed a motion to dismiss. My lawyer was about to do the same thing under the code being unconstitutionally vague. Either way the case was dismissed.

Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2qg79U4d54&t=10s
Part 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wed3Mev3x-U
Part 3  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzTiXCjQBPc  
Part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRnDXf4rohw&t=636s

Police harrasment at san diego comic con

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXLNbrm5CiI&t=12s

Police ask silverman to leave the pacific island festival
part 1`
https://www.facebook.com/william.j.dorsett/videos/10155285647759965/
part 2
https://www.facebook.com/william.j.dorsett/videos/10155285669089965/
Adams avenue street fair 2017 Sargent Mondesir, once again tells me that I am not allowed to spray paint at the Adams avenue street fair. He threatens to cite me the next day if i show up with the spray paint.... I complied,,, though in video two, the next day he still makes contact and harasses me.

video one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1rx2GK-hdU&t=19s 
video twohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGgmmATb3Sk&t=152s