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Public statement source · YT910
Animal Rights Activist Vegan BROKE my CAMERA!
Dated 2019-08-28, this is the speaker narrating his pursuit of a formal legal remedy — agreeing to file a police report and to prosecute — over a loss he himself values at ten to fifteen dollars, expressly framed as "the principle of it" rather than the amount. That grievance-to-formal-remedy posture, and the explicit disclaimer that the sum is not the point, is the disposition the corpus documents later in civil filings. It is not a lawsuit, a court proceeding, a lawyer, or a filing. A police report is a criminal-complaint step, so this does not move the archive's earliest-lawsuit-mention marker and must not be cited as if it did. Factor is No filing-conduct factor because no civil filing — made, announced or threatened — appears anywhere in the track. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. No party, case, court or docket is named anywhere in the transcript. The other person is never named — only described as "the overweight guy with the bullet [unresolved] and the white beard". No handle is given either, so there is nothing to resolve or to record as unresolved.
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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
What the factor labels are. Each statement is also labelled with the filing-restriction factor its own words describe, so the reason for a classification is visible rather than implied. Most factors correspond to a criterion recorded in the indicator data, and the three that do not are marked as such there — a filing that has only been threatened has no docket to record, and an allegation about a court is the speaker’s characterisation rather than a recorded criterion. Repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision and cost imposition as stated motive are the three that can qualify a statement as Strong; threatened or prospective filing, self-reported filing volume, filing announced or confirmed, adverse outcome described and judicial or forum bias alleged record related but weaker signals. A statement that describes no filing conduct carries no factor badge. A factor records what the speaker said — not that a court found it, and not that anyone has been determined a vexatious litigant.
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one of the officers actually said they would arrest him after I agreed to filing a police report and prosecuting but after they went up to him they ended up coming back and saying oh he knows his rights and and there's not enough footage of him standing on the wire so what are you gonna do I mean it's only a 10 to 15 dollar wire but you know it's the principle of it
Dated 2019-08-28, this is the speaker narrating his pursuit of a formal legal remedy — agreeing to file a police report and to prosecute — over a loss he himself values at ten to fifteen dollars, expressly framed as "the principle of it" rather than the amount. That grievance-to-formal-remedy posture, and the explicit disclaimer that the sum is not the point, is the disposition the corpus documents later in civil filings. It is not a lawsuit, a court proceeding, a lawyer, or a filing. A police report is a criminal-complaint step, so this does not move the archive's earliest-lawsuit-mention marker and must not be cited as if it did. Factor is No filing-conduct factor because no civil filing — made, announced or threatened — appears anywhere in the track. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. No party, case, court or docket is named anywhere in the transcript. The other person is never named — only described as "the overweight guy with the bullet [unresolved] and the white beard". No handle is given either, so there is nothing to resolve or to record as unresolved.
stood on my wire he broke it the parties [unresolved] that we had wasn't good enough to show to the police for evidence filed the report but nothing's gonna happen out of that
Closes the loop on the first quote — the report was actually filed, and he states on camera that he expects no outcome from it. Read together the two quotes record a complete small-value grievance cycle in 2019: incident, formal complaint, and a stated belief that the official channel will not deliver. Again a police report, not a court filing, so the factor is No filing-conduct factor and the tier is Context. Possible case/dispute link: none identified — same reasoning as above.