The catch with most of these statutes is that the part that is illegal is the audio recording. If you record video without an audio track or are too far away f

The catch with most of these statutes is that the part that is illegal is the audio recording. If you record video without an audio track or are too far away for any audio of the encounter to be heard then you are usually in the clear. In the King case my memory of the video is that it was shot from a distance and that you can't really hear anything (checking a few archives seems to confirm that the only thing that you can really hear is helicopter noise.)