Your friend is an ***. The idiots who do this stuff are deliberately creating conflict for personal gain, forcing cops and other government workers to deal with their BS both on the front end through confrontation and the backend through FOIA requests and lawsuits. Those are taxpayer funded resources that would be better spent doing their job without being distracted by some narscissitic attention idiot.
It may not be 'illegal', but it is certainly not something to be celebrated.
It's about choices.
Nobody forced public servants to act the way they act.
Nobody forced them to deny service because he has a camera
Nobody forced them to call LE over a guy with camera - because they are "uncomfortable" or the guy is "creepy" of if he doesn't answer their questions.
Nobody forced them to lie to dispatch - which comes out in the 911 calls
Nobody forced the cops to act the way they act.
Then when multiple cops show up over a guy with a camera, nobody forced them all to stay when there's no crime.
Nobody forced them to solicit trespass
Nobody forced them to violate rights by arresting for a lawful activity.
They made those choices
It all comes out w/the release of the body cams with the conspiracies to get him arrested.
If they leave him alone, he has no content to post, no lawsuits to file. They, without fail, give him everything
Then, when all charges are dropped - that's when he goes after them.
Tell me, again who is wasting public resources - the guy with a camera or the folks who made the initial call.
But, see, there IS a choice on how LE/public servants act when they can no longer hide behind qualified immunity. They seem to be VERY nice and accommodating. Strange, isn't it.
I'm all for flexing rights through lawful activity.
The true test for freedom is the right to test it.