Scenario: A policeman is performing brutality on someone while multiple peers observe. Those peers approach anyone recording, such that it forces anyone recording to traverse further and further away. (And if those people stand their ground, cops are now able to arrest them for being within 8 feet.) What then?
The person who is the subject of a contact may film that contact without an 8’ buffer. If I’m filming officer A from 10’ away and officer B comes to make contact with me, it does not appear that I’m obligated to stay 8’ from officer B not to stop filming that contact.
