This is good stuff, but nothing new. Copwatch organizations exist all over the US and thirty years ago Black Panthers neighborhood patrols were doing this except they were carrying shotguns instead of cameras.
Defense.gov News Photo 110426-A-7597S-183: U.S. Special Operations service members with Special Operations Task Force South board two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters following a clearing operation in Panjwa'i district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2011. Source: Wikimedia.
This is good stuff, but nothing new. Copwatch organizations exist all over the US and thirty years ago Black Panthers neighborhood patrols were doing this except they were carrying shotguns instead of cameras.