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? 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. never, ever interfere with the police while they re doing
officer spots jimmy justice and is not too happy to be filmed. what are you doing? what are you doing? you can t touch me. i can do whatever i want. why are you allowed to touch me? i didn t touch you. where did i touch you? i told him, hey, buddy, you re taking this a little too far now. you re not allowed to touch me, you re not allowed to assault 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.
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. they have this sense of entitlement that because they work for the police department or because they work for the government or for a city agency in new york, that they can do whatever they want. according to jimmy, many
destroyed so that i can use that camera to police them. back in business, jimmy says bring it on. he s on the streets, searching for justice, no matter the danger, proving an ordinary citizen, armed with a video camera, can make a lot of noise and, he hopes, a little difference. business district. i am jimmy justice. and your days of running around this city like a cowboy are over. they still don t know exactly who i am. they just know there s this guy who calls himself jimmy justice, and he keeps publishing these embarrassing videos of our officers and our agents violating the same laws that they re supposed to enforce. coming up i can do something that in a lot of cases an entire police force and millions of tax dollars can t do. a man on a mission, catching prostitutes and their johns on camera. you re going to jail, buddy. and a daughter s horrifying discovery. something just hit me like a ton of bricks and said you really need to look at these cameras now.
he s out there roughly 20 hours a week, keeping track of law enforcement and government officials, catching them on camera. what is your problem? here s a traffic agent, parking in front of a fire hydrant. she goes into the store to get some food, and while she s ordering, sirens, flashing lights, fire trucks pull up. and jimmy justice is hot under the collar. you re a traffic enforcement agent, and you parked your official vehicle blocking a fire pump, and there s a fire outside with firemen out there and they have no access to the pump? you ought to be ashamed of yourself! while you re in the store, you don t hear the sirens? what s the matter with you? and fire engines were coming from every direction. and the nerve of this woman just to stay there on line and order her food and not come out and move her vehicle. that was just a little too over the top for me, and i lost my cool. have a good day. what s the matter with you? jimmy often gets aggressive in his videos.