2:42 PM: Thanks for the guidelines. Police have acquired calls this previous hour about two masked males in The Junction, photographing folks and companies. Officers checked them out within the neighborhood of the Post Office and Eagles aerie; they instructed dispatch the lads weren’t doing something unlawful (permission isn’t required to {photograph} anybody or something seen from a public area like a sidewalk or avenue). What some who’ve seen them report back to be unsettling is their outfits (here’s one photo texted to us), paying homage to what plainclothes ICE brokers have been photographed carrying, however one report we’ve acquired say the lads recognized themselves as “independent media.” They have been additionally described as “belligerent.”
2:55 PM: Someone simply referred to as this into 911 once more, and officers instructed dispatch they’d made contact earlier and “there’s nothing we can do.”
3:31 PM: As famous in feedback, that is apparently a follow referred to as 1st Amendment Auditing, carried out by provocateurs. It would clarify why we thought we heard officers inform dispatch the lads have been “auditors.”
4:40 PM: We’ve acquired a pair pictures of each.