The way this man is acting hardly engenders sympathy, but he has a right to film police in public nonetheless.
Even Carlos Miller of Photography Is Not A Crime (PINAC), an outspoken proponent of photographers’ rights, notes that viewers “will probably agree that he came across very obnoxious, not to mention he would not hold his phone in the horizontal position to record in landscape mode.”
Obnoxious as he may be, it doesn’t give cops a green light to arrest him and confiscate the cameras of bystanders.
Police can be seen confiscating the cellphones of witnesses in the below video: