You got bass ackwards. The teatrash were harrassing him.
They asked him a question as he passed.
They had a right to identify themselves
Do you understand the difference between a right and an obligation?
ask his permiossion to record the conversation
They don't need his permission to openly record him in a public area.
He was under no obligation to talk to the sociopathic little slimeballs.
The fact that he didn't answer their question isn't the problem, lefty. Can you identify what the problem is?
If anyone should face charges, it is the teatrash.
... and... you have officially become a parody of yourself.
Not that you weren't before, but now it's official. Good call, Brainster (though I'm afraid this was too predictable to qualify for the million dollar prize).
It appears to me that they were not going to let him go about his business.
And how were they going to prevent him from going about his business? Were they going to take his things? Forcibly restrain him?
Oh... wait... that's what
he did to
them.
He appears against different backgrounds (with no transition between shots)
There were two cameras. In one of the posted videos, they cut from one camera to another because Etheridge seized the first one so you can't see anything from it. But full video from each camera is available separately. There's no "different backgrounds" involved. In all happened at one spot.
The funny thing about this, of course, is that even Etheridge himself knows he was in the wrong, and his own apology gives lie to the bizarre rationalizations lefty puts forward.