I also carry a camera in my purse-—and it makes videos.
I suppose if I ever saw what I perceived to be “police brutality” I would try to film it……….I just wouldn’t look through the view finder. I would hold it about shoulder high and not be paying attention at all to the camera.
Cell phone cameras can be set to send video directly to the cloud, i.e. the internet thereby protecting the videographer’s content against confiscation.