This Beach badge is a tax to support the beach ops. Guy was arrested for not paying his tax.
Why Beach tags?
Beach tags are required in most municipalities along the New Jersey coastline. They are a user fee to help offset the local municipalities cost of maintaining their beaches and providing lifeguards and other services such as trash removal, beach cleaning and the purchase of needed equipment and police protection.
The cost of these items and all of the other beach benefits are supported by this user fee known as the beach tag. The beach fee program was approved by the residents of Ocean City in 1976 and continued since that time to help offset all of the costs associated with the beach.
A tax of this nature makes sense, given all of the traffic these NJ beaches get, a lot of which does not respect the beach.
It does not justify putting a citizen into a choke hold, ramming him to the ground, dog piling on him, grinding his face into the sand, and handcuffing him. Ever.
The guy wasn’t put in a chokehold and arrested because he didn’t have a beach tag. That happened because he was he was told he was being detained and if he tried to leave he would be arrested, but tried to leave anyway.
The officer had reasonable articulable suspicion that a crime/ violation had occurred and was legally allowed to detain that guy. whether the officer was correct or not about the surfer needing a tag to access the water isn’t actually important outside of a courtroom.
This Beach badge is a tax to support the beach ops. Guy was arrested for not paying his tax.
Why Beach tags?
Beach tags are required in most municipalities along the New Jersey coastline. They are a user fee to help offset the local municipalities cost of maintaining their beaches and providing lifeguards and other services such as trash removal, beach cleaning and the purchase of needed equipment and police protection.
The cost of these items and all of the other beach benefits are supported by this user fee known as the beach tag. The beach fee program was approved by the residents of Ocean City in 1976 and continued since that time to help offset all of the costs associated with the beach.
A tax of this nature makes sense, given all of the traffic these NJ beaches get, a lot of which does not respect the beach.
It does not justify putting a citizen into a choke hold, ramming him to the ground, dog piling on him, grinding his face into the sand, and handcuffing him. Ever.
The guy wasn’t put in a chokehold and arrested because he didn’t have a beach tag. That happened because he was he was told he was being detained and if he tried to leave he would be arrested, but tried to leave anyway.
The officer had reasonable articulable suspicion that a crime/ violation had occurred and was legally allowed to detain that guy. whether the officer was correct or not about the surfer needing a tag to access the water isn’t actually important outside of a courtroom.
It's bullshit.