When we last left off, once reformed First Amendment Auditor Glenn Cerio was toying with the idea of returning to auditing full time and he was slowly showing signs of a return to his previous obnoxious personality; Cerio confirmed his return to that personality with two more audits on his channel, where he used racist tropes with a man who could not speak English in one and confronted a police officer after a traffic stop in another.
Cerio had been quiet for most of the year with no real explanation other than he was now “working in electronics” before releasing five videos of “audits” this week. Since the footage appears to have been taken earlier in the year, Cerio may be releasing his stockpile of audits in order to gain interest in his long dormant YouTube channel.
While, as we’ve noted, the first few audits he has released were fairly quiet, things seemed to turn up a notch in a video Cerio released on Thursday.
In that video, Cerio came across a car crash at an establishment called “Mike’s Bike Shop” in Everett, Washington. One car was parked near the sidewalk, while the other car was parked in the parking lot.
An older white man was on his phone in the parking lot and yelled at Cerio not to film him. Another man, who would later identify himself as Punjabi, appeared daze as he wandered around the scene and police began to arrive.
The man said that his English was “not good” and Cerio began to speak to him in an insulting broken English dialect. Sounding like a bad cartoon version of a native American, Cerio began to get details out of the man about the crash.
It eventually came out that the man’s car was hit by the older white man and he was not at fault. The older white man apparently received a citation for the accident and talked to police inside the store, out of the range of Cerio’s camera.
Eventually, the Punjabi man was able to get his car started and was able to drive himself away from the crime scene, despite the massive damage to his car.
Cerio interacted with Everett police as they were wrapping up on the scene. When he asked about his old nemesis, Officer Jacobi, he was informed that the officer was no longer on the force, which brought Cerio great pleasure.
The livestream ended soon after that with police leaving the scene.
On Friday, Cerio released a more controversial video, that started as he had been pulled over by a motorcycle unit off of a busy highway in the Everitt area.
The officer explained that he had clocked Cerio doing 75 miles per hour in a zone designated for 60 miles per hour. He explained that he was giving Cerio a ticket for going 15 miles per hour over the posted speed limit.
Cerio objected and wanted to know if the officer’s speed guy was calibrated recently as he swore he wasn’t going as fast as the officer had stated. The officer showed that the device’s calibration was good for another year.
The officer said that he had observed that Cerio was slowing down as he went past the officer but had already clocked Cerio at going over the speed limit. Cerio questioned how t he officer could tell that Cerio was slowing down, as he claimed it would be impossible to tell that with the naked eye.
The officer replied that he spends all days watching cars and has been skilled at observing speeds. Cerio thought for a minute, then demanded that the officer bring a sergeant to the scene. The officer explained that it was not policy to summon a sergeant on command and that Cerio could make any complaints following the instructions in his paperwork.
Cerio continued to demand a sergeant until the officer left.
The video picked up at another location, the same officer had another car pulled over and was in the process of issuing that driver a citation.
Cerio got out of his vehicle and approached the officer. He again demanded a sergeant and said that the was angry that the officer did not follow through with his demand.
The officer said that people can ask for a lot of things. He said that he could ask for Cerio to bake him a cake but didn’t expect Cerio to do so. Cerio rejected the statement, saying they weren’t at his house and that the officer was not his wife.
The officer turned his back on Cerio, moving up to the vehicle that he had stopped and giving a ticket to the driver. The driver then drove off. As the officer returned, Cerio attempted to ask the officer more questions in relation to his ticket.
When the officer refused to engage with Cerio further, Cerio started screaming that he would “summons” the officer as the officer got on his motorcycle and left the scene.
It is unclear if Cerio is returning to auditing full-time. We will continue to monitor his on-going drama in Washington State as it happens.
