https://twitter.com/ShawnGui_/status/... I had been told by people previously not to film people's faces in this area so I was doing my best to avoid pointing my camera at people near to me. I didn't see a problem filming the tents themselves with downtown Seattle in the background to give my viewers a sense of where the free zone is relative to the rest of the city. That's when someone approached me and told me not to even film the tents. I tried to tell this person that I didn't think that was the policy. Everyone had only been saying not to film faces, and even though it is a public space / park I was fine doing that for people. Also it should be noted that the livestream video quality, covid masks, the movement of the camera, and other factors make it near impossible to identify people anyway. Unless I'm right next to them, in which case I almost always ask permission before showing someone on the livestream. You can see the interaction I have with the individual in the video. He got increasingly upset with me as I asked more questions and started threatening me and my streaming equipment. When I tried to leave he grabbed my backpack and the back of the motorcycle jacket I was wearing from behind so that I wasn't able to turn around or move. I say 'ouch' in the video because the jacket pinched my neck when he grabbed it and pulled against my throat in the front choking me a bit. Both the jacket and backpack were firmly locked to me so I wasn't going anywhere. The individual was larger than I was by a good deal so I didn't think fighting my way free was a good idea, especially given he had already threatened to grab or smash my stuff. I yelled out for help hoping that someone else would come over seeing this guy detaining me and tell him to back off. Instead another individual or two came over and backed him up, telling me to delete my video / livestream if I wanted to be released. I was badly scared for my safety at this point so I did what they said. I killed my stream and hit delete on the video save option. Luckily someone else was re-streaming me at the time here: https://youtu.be/Oj-S2v3X3hU (This channel's attribution of my stream is actually pretty bad so while I do thank them for saving this incident I wish they would do a better job). Instead they put their watermark on my experience, don't show its not their footage in the title, and don't link to my accounts anywhere in their description. I was streaming here at the time: https://ift.tt/30ZSPPt The guy restraining me and another person or two who had gathered around me looked over my shoulder while I navigated my phone to delete the livestream. They then made me swear that it was deleted (which it was). At that point a women came up behind them and said 'he did it, let him go', which seemed to calm them down a little bit. I don't know what might have happened if she didn't step in and say that to them. At that point the individual released me but stayed right on top of me, bearing down on me and saying he was going to escort me out of the park and into the street where I was 'allowed' to film according to him. During this walk he continually threatened to 'fuck me up' or beat me if he saw me again near the tents. He also mentioned that he was going to break all of my phones / streaming gear as well. He took me to the baseball field via 11th ave and told me to film some people speaking on a stage in the park. 'That is what you are allowed to film' were his approximate words. Then he turned around and went back to his tent. I was pretty shaken by the experience. He made it very clear to me over and over that he had a problem with me directly and if I didn't listen to him 'for my own safety' that he or his group were going to beat the shit out of me and there's nothing anyone would do about it. I went to the CHOP 'security' / volunteers after this incident but they didn't seem to think it was worth investigating. They suggested I try de-escalation techniques next time or stay away from that area. Later in the night I did speak with a 'security team' member who seemed to take my report seriously and they said they would look into it. I asked the CHOP 'security team' where I could find them if I had a future issue and the answer was either 'near the barriers' at the edge of the zone, or 'we float around, you can find us because we have walkie talkies on'. There was no security outpost or tent where you could reliably find security.
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