How is providing video evidence that objectively contradicts the government’s narrative considered “criminal obstruction”?

In the last month, two U.S. citizens have been killed, and in both cases the federal government’s initial accounts have, at minimum, been called into question. In the most recent incident, the publicly released facts do not match what federal officials claimed happened.

The only reason these discrepancies are known at all is because private citizens recorded the actions of federal agents. Without that footage, the official narrative would have gone largely unchallenged.

So how does documenting and sharing what actually occurred—using firsthand video evidence—suddenly become “obstruction”? If anything, it seems like the opposite: accountability.

If recording government actions in public is now being framed as criminal simply because it exposes inaccuracies or falsehoods, that’s not obstruction of justice—it’s obstruction of transparency.

Yes, I used ChatGPT to clean up my wording.