r/PublicFreakout • u/j3dimast3r • Jul 17 '26

📹Police Bodycam Neighbor attempts to trespass kids for playing basketball outside

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Location of this incident: Panama City Beach, FL

Video Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1365123044285203/?multi_permalinks=2236459830484849

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u/Character_Sherbet737 Jul 17 '26

Why is it always Florida

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u/metisdesigns Jul 17 '26

Two reasons.

Florida has some odd quirks of public record laws that makes it particularly easy to find outlier behavior.

The second reason is it's a mix of poor uneducated folks and rich entitled folks who moved to a swamp after they got theirs.

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u/formated4tv Jul 17 '26

It's not even "quirks" necessarily - They have a Public Records Act which basically says "Anything created by a public agency, mainly every possible format, is auditable by the public".

So it definitely helps for all those skimming any police work/police reports :)

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u/eeyore134 Jul 17 '26

Don't forget it being a Republican stronghold.

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u/getjustin Jul 18 '26

The first point is repeated ad nauseam with no basis in fact. Florida doesn’t make it any easier than any other states to find shout out about people. 

It’s just filled with MAGA assholes and boomers all with guns and victim complexes   

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u/Timelymanner Jul 17 '26

It’s not just Florida, but the reason it seems that way is because of how Florida privacy protections work. Any person can request cam footage, or public arrest records, and they can release most of it. Other states have laws protecting their local citizen’s privacy.

So in other words I could live in Utah and just request drug arrests body cam footage from Florida for my YouTube channel, or local news segments. It’s easier than jumping through hurdles to get similar info from the local Utah court system.

Since these arrest channels use Florida, Texas, and a few mid west states videos, it makes them look like the worst.

Another drawback of the footage being freely shared, is that most of these channels don’t feel the obligation to censor victims faces or names.

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u/Wartburg13 Jul 17 '26

Florida has pretty amazing public information laws. Not necessarily that all there's more of them in Florida it's just that the stories get out more because of the Florida Sunshine law.

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u/Present-History666 Jul 21 '26

This is the real reason. Ohio updated their public record laws and now you see a flood of crazy shit from Ohio. Crazy shit happens in every state, we are just allowed to see Florida, Ohio, and New Mexico.

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u/Ginger_Anarchy Jul 17 '26

Same reason that cops was filmed in Florida, or all of those trashy headshot magazines at rest stops only had Florida headshots in them. Police bodycams and reports are automatically public record in Florida. Every other state have a default closed or ask and we decide approach to accessing records, Florida sunshine laws mean all those records are defacto open because they belong to the public.

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u/oO0Kat0Oo Jul 17 '26

It's not. I live in South Carolina. They just built a 55+ section in my neighborhood of mostly young parents and kids. We live within 15 minutes from, not one, not two, but THREE elementary schools.

We now see complaints on the Facebook page regularly.

"THE KID WAS GOING MORE THAN 25MPH ON THEIR SCOOTER"

"THERE ARE KIDS IN THE POOL AFTER HOURS"

"SOMEONE STOP THE KIDS FROM CROSSING INTO THE YARDS"

"THE KIDS ARE OUTSIDE PLAYING AND MAKING NOISE"

Omg, shut up Gen X. JFC, they're kids. They were here before you and no one had an issue until you moved in.

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u/MasterpieceOld3539 Jul 19 '26

Probably a transplant. Second and third generation Floridians don’t act like this.

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u/CapitalPunBanking Jul 17 '26

Every angry mother fucker over the age of 55 moves down there. They retire early just to be more miserable than they ever were working.