If your plan is to stay legal, bringing a camera to film the potentially violent response from the state and counterprotesters could be a good move.

Yeah, this was my perspective in my earlier comment. I think we all need to be journalists (in the pure job-description sense) these days. Anyone on a corporate payroll won’t help us, as Upton Sinclair famously said. When the persecutions happen we only have ourselves to be witnesses. Social media is colossally flawed in so many ways, but at least it’s accessible to the masses and difficult to moderate. Truth can slip through to millions easily. And for now it’s still relatively easy to throw up a basic blog website.

You’re certainly right about not bringing a camera when doing potentially self-incriminating things. I mean, I’m not passing judgment, people do what they do in the heat of the moment, things happen, human psychology, fight or flight, etc etc etc. But if a comrade was to accidentally throw a molotov into a big corporate fast food franchise that treats both employees and source animals with equal empathy, then that person would be more likely to avoid complications if everyone knew to just not bring cameras beforehand.