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The San Diego Police Department is investigating after a viral video emerged that appears to show a city parking enforcement officer ticketing a Tesla — writing a citation minutes after chalking the car’s tire — even though the driver had already paid for street parking.
The owners of the Tesla posted a video from the Dec. 6 incident on social media showing the officer writing a citation. They said he claimed they had been parked on the street for two hours, but they said they’d only been in the spot for less than a half hour. And, thanks to their Tesla’s cameras, they had video that appeared to back that up.
Two days later, they sent an email to the city complaining about the officer’s actions. Their parking ticket has since been dismissed.
Vanessa Pearce said she and her husband, Don, had spent the morning at Fiesta Island before driving to the East Village to pick up an order at the Izola bakery on Island Avenue. They paid for parking at a meter at 12:32 p.m., she said.
But when the couple returned to the car at 1 p.m., they found they had been issued a citation.
Pearce went to talk with the enforcement officer, who was still in the area, but he told her that the vehicle had been parked in the same spot for more than two hours. She said that wasn’t the case.
“Initially, I believed he was unaware that we had paid for parking, so I offered to show proof of payment,” Pearce...
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