Setup or not this is no different than undercovers pretending to be hookers. Good for the kid in ridding the city of a bad element. I’m betting the city or state rectifies this problem by banning the use of video cameras trained on LOE’s.
There’s a couple of places that have done that - I think there’s a number of cases on FOIA/First Amendment grounds that are now wending their way through the system because of it.
That said, I’ve had enough problems out there with both civilians and cops that I’m seriously looking into equipping all my vehicles with cameras and mikes. I’m tired of getting told “we can’t do anything about it because there’s no evidence and it’s a he-said-she-said situation.”