Honestly, when you are committing something illegal (not saying I do on a regular basis, that's just an example) and people start filming, and you know that what you're doing is utterly illegal and you aren't masked and you're a cop on top of that, with badge number and all, what do you do? You just keep on doing what you do? Like, you don't even care about people filming you? No of course not, you back off, you try to pretend you did nothing wrong here, you try to get away ASAP from the situation if you can't shutdown/confiscate the cameras. Of course, that's just the normal reaction Here, chauvin got filmed for 8 minutes straight, and he knew damn well he was being filmed So what does it tell you? Well either he's a complete suicidal idiot or he doesn't realize that what he's doing is potentially going to send him to prison for decades ... I think it's safe to assume that chauvin would have preferred to go back home like any other normal day, that day. As opposed to landing in jail, going for decades in prison, and triggering race riots on a mass scale in the process. I think that day he didn't plan to get into any of this...