You Have a First Amendment Right to Record the Police

I had this discussion with many Americans: "What makes a constitutionally protected right to bear arms work, without a constitutionally protected right to use them?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung

(To be clear, I’m in favor of ending qualified immunity in cases associated with criminal acts, not because I think it will make things better, but because it is fundamentally unjust for the taxpayers to be forced to cover the bill for an individual officer’s illegal acts, when the officer — of all people — should have known that the act was illegal)

1A says:

> Congress shall make no law [religion stuff]; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It's part of the overall combined notion of "speech, press, assembly, and petition"

You have to go back and understand the jurisprudence of US courts a long time to understand it. Basically you can't take the word "speech" too literally; it could be literal speech or the ability to assemble/protest, or the ability write a book, or the ability to spend money on a political election (what the sane world calls bribery far more than the USA does).