Acura Amanda is a YouTube personality who films police interactions with public. Sometimes that involves traffic stops, crime scenes and government functions in the nonenforcement side. You can view her channel here ACURA AMANDA YOUTUBE. She was arrested by Officer Johnston of the Palm Beach Gardens Police Department.

During encounters with her and others, law enforcement egos seem to get the best of them and on many occasions they lose their cool. This usually ends up with a police officers’ feelings hurt, ego bruised and a reaction from solely filming an interaction while in the official capacity of their duties. As a first amendment auditor myself (James Madison Audits), I generally have the rule of don’t speak unless spoken to. Acura Amanda does the same in nearly all of her videos. She keeps it calm, professional and assertive. This instance she did exactly that and paid the price with an arrest.

During a police interaction in Palm Beach Gardens, Acura Amanda was seen walking down a sidewalk toward what appeared to be a crash. Acura Amanda mentioned a Richard Pearce, a police officer, who she had an issue with in the past.  He later showed up as the acting supervisor. 

Acura Amanda decided not to cross where the crash was and seeing that the sidewalk was temporarily closed she went out of her way to cross at the next available area. She filmed the loading up of the crashed vehicle onto the tow truck. She was filming from the sidewalk at this time and narrating the video.

Amanda left the scene of the crash and walked from them without incident. She approached a barricade citing “SIDEWALK CLOSED” over 600 feet from the previous intersection. She stated in her video that this was a setup, and sure enough her premonition was spot on. Where she ultimately made the decision to cross was an unmarked crosswalk, where to the common person this would be permitted in crossing the road. With all indications making it appear you could cross there, the sidewalk turns and leads you to a 90 degree intersection of the sidewalk and roadway. On the opposite side of the road the same sidewalk design mirrors an approach to the roadway.  

Florida Statute 316.130 (Pedestrian Traffic Regulations) states what is legal and lawful and restricted. Lets explore paragraph 10. It states the following in the two paragraphs: FSS: 316.130

(10) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.

(11) Between adjacent intersections at which traffic control signals are in operation, pedestrians shall not cross at any place except in a marked crosswalk.

Amanda performed this crossing perfectly to the statute requirements. Now according to Subsection 11, at first glance you might think she is in violation, but in fact, she is not. The officer made a report that she was “approximately 200 feet from the nearest crosswalk.” That was a false statement included in the report. Now a days in EVERY car is a computer with google maps. The unmarked crosswalk she was at was 613 feet away from the nearest, and 1300 feet away from her origin of travel. Between those two marked crosswalks with signals functioning was THREE adjacent intersections (see diagram below).

Officer Johnston unlawfully stopped her for “Jaywalking”. Jaywalking is not a legal term in Florida and has no meaning in the Florida Statutes. Crossing midblock in almost all occasions is legal due to those intersections as mentioned above. Officer Johnston demands ID from Amanda and she refuses with authority and is in the right. He threatens, unlawfully, to arrest her for obstruction without a valid law violation. Amanda states to him that she can’t walk all the way back there and officer Johnston incorrectly states, “That doesn’t mean you can cross across the street.” In fact, it does. Since there are SEVERAL intersections between the two intersections it is permittable. Even the CDC, DOT and Pedestrian Safety Central Florida indicate crossing in this area is legal. She attempts to point out all of the indicators that show that this is a permittable spot. But Officer Johnston, with a clear retaliatory decision for filming the previous crash, wants to press this issue very hard with her. During her video the officer stated “the sidewalk is closed”. Amanda’s quick thinking gets him to repeat this but Officer Johnston is still too oblivious to understand how this is playing out. He states that she has to turn back and go to a crosswalk; that is definitely incorrect. Sergeant Pearce arrived on the scene and they both realized who each other was. She again refused the unlawful demand for ID and was arrested. The officers state “do not fight” which is typical of their tactics when they want to start up a justification of resisting on you. The live stream ends with her arrested.

Amanda was taken into custody, and was injured, receiving bruises that lasted for weeks if not months for them squeezing her so hard.  She ultimately was also ROR, or Released on her Own Recognizance, which means a notice to appear was given or was it an arrest then they realized they screwed up. From my experience you “cut them loose” if it’s a questionable arrest. In fact, this was an unlawful stop, arrest, detention, and citation. This officer and sergeant are bad cops, this was a punishment and retaliation directly for filming.  

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When you hear of a $3 million settlement from a small town in Georgia, you want to go explore. That’s what happened in Sylvester, Georgia with Worth County Sheriff Jeff Hobby.

Hobby and deputies performed an unlawful search at a high school where nearly 900 students were searched, without cause, at Worth County High School. Each student will receive between $1,000-$6,000 who were part of the invasive and unlawful searches.

After learning this, I decided to go to Sylvester and Worth County Sheriff Office. Sylvester Police Department was nice and calm with the exception of an employee who refused to identify herself. When I left there, only 2/10 of a mile away was the courthouse, the jail, and the sheriff’s office.

When I drove through to check the location I turned down a one way street with a sidewalk on the right. There were no sheriff cars, no police vehicles, marked or unmarked, and no signage indicating it was restricted or authorized vehicles only.

So I decided to park my vehicle and walk around as it was relatively quiet and after hours. I was met with an unruly corrections officer/sheriff’s employee who summoned a police sergeant. Sergeant Brown, whose face was that of a typical cop, was now questioning me about my presence. When the corrections officer exclaimed that she doesn’t want her picture taken, Sergeant Brown stated it’s not illegal to do that.

I thought we were going to be on good terms and a clear pass of the first amendment check at the Worth County Sheriff Office, but was I wrong. Sergeant Brown began giving conflicting statements on public and private places that citizens can be. He then stated about how many deputies are in this location coming on and off shift and about a vehicle that was either private, unmarked, or not related to the sheriff office and its presence in the parking lot.

This was becoming frustrating and was becoming one of the most difficult first amendment rights inspections/audits I have ever done. It’s really easy when law enforcement dig their heels in the the sand and say no to everything, but it is more difficult when you don’t know the direction they are wanting to go. Anytime that you are in the presence of law enforcement their purpose is to gather and collect information and determine if they can charge you with a crime or not. 

Sergeant Brown indicated that it was a tier 1 contact which means consensual. Even though I asserted my rights in this position the sergeant said he’s not questioning me about anything criminal which is BS because if I had stated I was going to do harm to anybody he would have arrested me.

I continue on, walk around and talk about more of the reason why I’m there. As I’m getting ready to leave, I’m confronted by Sheriff Don Whitaker who immediately came off as a tyrant barking orders, asserting this is his place and that I better listen to him and his deputies. Sheriff Whitaker should have known from the previous sheriff that civil rights are important. He attempted to demand identification from me at which point I refused and continued asserting my rights that this is a first amendment protected activity. In GA, you are not required to produce identification unless a law enforcement officer suspects you of loitering or a criminal offense. Sheriff Whitaker knew or should have known that the county already paid $3 million for a civil rights violation but he carried on.

You can see the full video here.

The city of gulfport police chief responded publicly to a video published. Ok, let’s see what it says. Note when reading this try not to let your emotions take hold, but now they’re saying that he tried to force his way into the building. Into an adjacent one yet the narrative in the report didn’t indicate this attempted burglary what so ever.

From the Desk of Robert Vincent, Chief of Police

Subject:              Trespass Warning Issued for Gulfport City Hall Complex
Date:                   2/24/2021
Location:            2401 53rd Street South

Narrative

On 9/4/2020, Gulfport Police were called to the city hall to address a complaint that Jesse Lee had just attempted to force his way into the community development office which was, at the time, closed to the public due to COVID-19. The community development office is in a separate building located in the city hall complex, along with the police department, fire department, and certain public works facilities. Lee had, on prior occasions, made threatening comments to city staff members who work in the city hall complex. Upon learning of Lee’s conduct on this particular date, City Manager James O’Reilly decided to issue a trespass warning to Lee, prohibiting him from entering the buildings at the city hall complex.

A police sergeant delivered the trespass warning to Lee, making it clear that the warning did not apply to open meetings of elected officials. During this interaction, Lee told the sergeant that he wanted to file a complaint against the director of the community development department. The sergeant told Lee that he would have to take that up with the respective department.

After the trespass warning was delivered, Lee got into his vehicle and drove off of the property. He stopped on the adjacent roadway and shouted to officers that he intended to return to the property in fifteen minutes. Officers then had a private conversation which was inadvertently recorded on one of the officer’s body cameras. At no point did any of the officers make any derogatory or unprofessional comments to Lee or any other member of the public.

Let’s tackle private conversation. Police are not privy to private conversations when working. Everything they do is a matter of public interest. There are some exceptions to that with domestic violence victims, criminal intelligence, juvenile and or other situations that fall under marcys law. But calling someone a fucking douche bag is not, and making bets against this guy on who’s going to arrest him. That actually may be illegal u see Florida law (jokingly).

The police chief of Gulfport actually and in fact attempted to prevent me from getting a blank form citing criminal intelligence. Which makes no sense. This is a red flag for departments. Not one agency in Florida has ever prevented me from getting a blank form for a complaint citing confidential.

This behavior shows the mentality of the departments. Gulfport is a small department of 32 officers. In those small departments some tend to do what they want and make laws up that don’t exist snd with public, if you create friction for redressing your government they’ll then create several documents against you to attempt to make a file of behavior on you. Rather than get to the root of the issues these departments will retaliate.

A new videos shows another man speaking to the police chief snd I will be sharing that soon on the YouTube page.

Jesse Lee has a small business that he operates at special events or where crowds tend to gather. He sells ice cream from a mobile cart regularly travels to conduct his business. He has a state permit to do so. The state of Florida prohibits local governments from making further laws against food carts. 

The city of Gulf Port seemingly singled out Jesse and began giving him tickets for not having a permit despite the code citing it has to be in conjunction with a special event permint.

Jesse has since let his license laps and lost his business due to continued harassment and citations being issued despite preemption in florida! 

After Digging a little the chief of police attempted to prevent me from getting a complaint form, The police denied Jesse also the very same complant form I had to fight to get. Here’s my reply to his denaill 

EMAIL TO CHIEF VINCENT 

Chef Vincent and City Council, 

It’s come to my attention that a man Jessie who resides operates a business within in your city has had his rights potentially violated and general basic fair and equal treatment within your city. The allegations he brought to me are detrimental to society, progress, and overall a healthy community.  This email will serve as a notice to you to effect a change and follow the law and policy set forth within your department and treat all people equally and fairly without discrimination. 

The governor has already provided guidance on food trucks, carts, and businesses that have the right to establish and conduct business within the state of Florida. Your agency is issuing citations for permits and maliciously prosecuting individuals who I notice that you are accredited which means that you have a standardized policy that most police agencies have. I have CC’d the FDLE manager and Commander Stone in this email to bring you back to compliance. 

(http://www.gulfportpolice.com/accreditation.html) This page shows you serve as the assessment team that does onsite reviews, your department is in violation of policy from the videos I have watched.  While this program is a voluntary system and without fluff, bullshit, you’ve still elected to be a better agency that serves the community and clearly failing to do that. 

A couple of requests that need to be made are giving me access to any previously released and redacted videos that have been prepared as a public record and released for Jessie that you stated the video was pulled for him on September 18th 2020 at 1:31 PM. His email is mrjessele@gmail.com if that allows for an easier search. 

Provide Jesse at his email address today a copy of a BLANK complaint form to fill out to – mrjessele@gmail.com retraining on police you wrote relating to filming in public Coordinate and facilitate with him rescind an unlawful trespass that was issued for city hall.

Copy of trespasses that you have issued to Jessie at businesses in your city. It’s being conveyed that these trespasses are solicited from businesses by your officer in which Jesse was not even on the property. 

With regard to your trespass and the rescinding of it, Florida Courts have a well-established opinion and rule for trespass from public property.  While you stated in an email on September 18th 2020, “We just convey the message” In this case, this is not correct, you are an agent of the city and the law enforcement of that city. 

Several Case laws prohibit trespass from the public property unless certain conditions apply. Redressing the government doesn’t apply. Unless you have a criminal offense that took place and he was charged then this trespass in issued unlawfully according to the courts’ opinions in your jurisdiction. Do the right thing and stop discriminating against minorities and certain sexual, lifestyle and other orientation – 

Please govern yourselves accordingly. 

Chris, James Madison Audits

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, Jan. 22, 2021Outcome of Jan. 2 Springfield InvestigationToday, the Office of Professional Standards within the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department concluded its investigation into the January 2, 2021 incident involving sheriff’s deputies in the City of Springfield, Mich. The deputy who chose to arrest Mr. Marshall has been terminated. We hold ourselves to high standards of professionalism to the communities we protect. When we are right, we are right. When we are wrong, we admit we are wrong. On January 2, we were wrong. Transparency and honesty to our community is the foundation to all of our success. The conduct and actions of this case, in which Mr. Marshall was collecting signatures, does not represent our commitment to our community. The actions that Mr. Marshall took that day of circulating a petition are protected by our constitution. While some ordinances in communities, even within Calhoun County, prohibit vendors from selling items without a permit, no law—local, state or federal—prohibited Mr. Marshall from exercising his constitutional rights on January 2. Sheriff Steve Hinkley and Undersheriff Tim Hurtt had a productive conversation with Mr. Marshall and his attorney two weeks ago, and the criminal charges in the case were dismissed. We are reviewing procedure, policies and training to ensure our community receives the best service from our department.For media inquiries, contact Lucy Blair, Communications Manager for Calhoun Countylblair@calhouncountymi.gov

Pensacola Police officer silently punish arrested person with excessive force

The Pensacola Police Department along with several officers were effecting an arrest for assault, dui and later resisting arrest.  Mike Cromwell got into a dispute at a whataburger relating to cutting one another off.

When Police arrived they wanted Mike to exit the vehicle. When he refused officers began punching and choking Mike to get him to exit the vehicle. Mike had already surrendered his keys to the police so there was no threat of him leaving with the vehicle. Officer Kelly at the time of this arrest was on the job about six years. He stated in his deposition that he had punched Mike over 4 times. During the video you do not hear anyone say stop resisting, don’t fight or any other words indicating he was fighting other than saying he wasn’t getting out of the truck.

What you do see though is officer in a choke hold with Mikes face purple. That officer is Kelly. The same officer admitting to punching him in the face in the deposition. 

Officer Morales is heard on the video saying “woo hoo baby” when the officer tells Mike to get out of the truck and he says he’s not getting out. Officer Morales clearly knows that she is going to witness a fight ensue and she apparently enjoys it. 

Mike has over $20,000 in medical bills pending from this October 2018 incident

Police were cleared of all charges, body cameras were not in use on all officers, and depositions state that body camera are unreliable. 

Mike is seeking help with finishing the lawsuit against the department.

Depositions, body camera, evidence, and other case file work has been completed. 

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Officer Morales is a black eye to law enforcement with her knowledge of law, specifically resisting with violence, inciting violence or excited to the impending violence. Officer Morales even said that she found Mikes gun in the center console, in a holster and wanted to charge him with a firearm violation. She is very unknowledgeable of the law and a spectator excited for violence from what is perceived in the video. Mike has his photo in the back of his truck to show awareness of what happened to him.

In early 2020, “Ryan” was charged with theft and dealing in stolen property after purchasing unknowingly a stolen item from a friend. A conviction of only theft was made due to knowledge of the theft came after purchase. By that time Ryan had sold or traded the item to another friend. During the plea agreement there was a snuck in portion about the drivers license being suspended as per FSS 812.014. Unknowingly, the suspension took place and Ryan’s license was suspended for six months. The suspension lasted and Ryan’s driving privilege’s were restored after the term. Prosecutors and Attorneys were not aware of the change and the status quo ensued, with out further research. 

What was not known was that House Bill 7125 Now amended the Florida statues for theft. Line 1839 – 1854 are lined through removing those provisions of the statute. Line 1855 now can allow suspension of a drivers license as an alternative to prosecution. It is recommended that you need to contact your attorney if your license is suspended and have them file a modification of sentence. 

Theft consists two elements on the Jury instructions 14.1k

• knowingly and unlawfully [obtained or used] [endeavored to obtain or to use] the (property alleged) of (victim).

• [He] [She] did so with intent to, either temporarily or permanently

Many times ever changing laws will make crimes, sentencing and even being charged with crimes a burden on the defendant even though there was no crime actually being committed or punishment being delivered up conviction. 

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**update** 1/12/2021 Soloyaker released after 1:30am. Bal Harbor kept his property he’s bonded out. I transferred the monies over to his wife. Soloyaker attorney is aware.

Soloyaker was arrested today for fishing while open carrying in Bal Harbor, Florida A small town north of miamia. Soloyaker ventures out without trouble usually except for uneducated police departments 

Officer Kuncas is the arresting officer and he was with the Miami Dade Police Department, now an officer with Bal Harbor from what I am learning. 

Under Florida Law, A person can open carry and fish. Soloyaker does this religiously whether posting a video of an interaction or with no cameras at all. 

If you’d like to help select one of the paypal links. I have sent him $250 for a $1500 bond. His wife has the money and I want to thank those who sent in donations this morning. I will reach out via email to thank you. 

For More information check out FSS: 

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0790/Sections/0790.25.html

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Saul VS. State of Michigan

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Chris Saul

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Was Chris Fleeing / eluding

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On March 10, 2016, Taylor Police Officer Brian Wojtowicz, who was patrolling in a
fully marked police vehicle, pulled over 19-year-old Saul for driving 45 miles an hour in a 35
zone. Saul pulled over, but the street was busy with traffic and did not have shoulders.
Wojtowicz honked his horn several times in an attempt to communicate that he wanted Saul to
pull his vehicle out of the road and into a nearby driveway. After approximately five seconds,
Saul slowly moved his vehicle forward. He drove for two miles as Officer Wojtowicz followed
directly behind him, with emergency lights and siren still activated. At that point, backup arrived
and surrounded Saul’s vehicle. Saul was then taken into custody.

At trial, Saul testified that he understood that when a driver hears an emergency vehicle
siren, he is “supposed to stop for the police,” pull over to the side of the road, and remain
stationary until the emergency vehicle passes. Saul explained that he did not comply because he
was confused when the officer honked his horn. Saul interpreted the honking to mean that he
should not have stopped his car at all, and that the officer wanted him to move “out of his way
and keep going.” When the officer honked his horn again after Saul moved forward, Saul
thought that “maybe he wanted me to move maybe he wanted me to pull into that driveway
there. I wasn’t sure.” Saul was also confused by a siren sound that he had never heard before. 

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After reviwing the case and court papers, the elements of fleeing and eluding were muddied with confusing orders. It’s no different than having two cops yelling hands up, hands down. The appeals court found that the lower court’s  decision was valid and affirmed the finding of guilty for fleeing and eluding. I had never honked my horn on traffic stops. As a Police Officer you shall maintain control of the scene you are investigating. Chris from the very first moment through court indicated that he thought the officer wanted him to go and that he was in his way. You can also see SEVERAL cars on the road way failing to stop, and failing to yield to the lights and siren. Chris was ultimately found guilty and I find it sad that the officer didn’t use his discretion. Taylor police department has a lot of videos where they use aggressive force on traffic stops you can see those on my channel. I do not know that I would have handled this situation differently except using the pa during and after the stop to order the defendant out. Here’s my take aways on what went wrong. The video is narrated over also 

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Confusing honking instead of utilizing the PA as policy indicates

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At the time of the traffic stop when Chris stopped in the roadway, the traffic stop should have been handled

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Was there excessive force when removing Chris from the car

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When the vehicle “fled and eluded” Why was there not any radio call out until several minutes after the stop

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The arresting officer excluded that he sent confusing honks to Chris when he came to a complete stop

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While in handcuffs, several questions pre-miranda were asked. those should have been thrown out. It shows that officers can’t do their job properly.

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