Fraudsters tried to trick police into shooting their friend, so they could beg online for donations.

[DetlefK]

I'm putting it into this sub-forum because they are basically conspiracy-theorists who believe in the "sovereign citizen" creed. This particular group of people call themselves "1st Amendment auditors" but a more fitting term is "frauditors".

They loiter outside and inside restricted public areas, sometimes harassing people and being as loud and obnoxious as possible, while being filmed by their friends. They pretend to be journalists and to perform a test whether security/police honor the 1st Amendment.
The actual goal is to get a reaction out of security and police, then to put those videos online as evidence of "tyranny"and "oppression" and then to beg for donations to keep up the good fight.

A common tactic is to pretend that they did not understand what the cop just said and they keep asking the same questions over and over and over again. This is in order to avoid the situation being resolved and to drag it out as long as possible until the cop hopefully loses his patience and does or says something stupid.

In this video, they chose a particularly dangerous script: The guy baiting security/police refuses to give his name, refuses to leave, gives ridiculous evasive non-answers, and when the cops demand that he show them his hands, he puts them behind his back as if reaching for a gun. The goal is to provoke a violent incident with police.