The people who were documenting police abuses and providing a video record to use in court to show that police were falsifying their accounts of things people did had no reason to egg anyone on. They were there for the purpose of making sure that people didn't get punished for things they didn't do, and making sure that police didn't get away with abuse of power. And they were quite successful at it in 2004 at the RNC, which resulted in charges being dropped against more than 400 people.

And that's the real reason they go after the journalists. Not because the journalists egg people on (what a bizarre fantasy), but because they want to be able to conduct their abuses of power with impunity.

It's illegal to interfere with the media doing its work. That's an infringement on the freedom of the press, and on free speech. In fact, not only is it illegal, it's unconstitutional.