Quoting Woody:
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I understand what you are saying, but it isn't your speech the government is restricting. It's your recording of the officer's speech.
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You don't get it yet. The right to record is linked to your first amendment PRESS rights - your right to gather info before disseminating it.
See, the right to a free press refers to a TECHNOLOGY, not a job description. So your use of "press technologies" is fully protected even if you're not a pro journalist - hence you have a right to own and use the computer you post here with, and a camera with which to gather info you disseminate on forums like this.
There are police agencies such as the NYPD who are still claiming a right to decide who "the press" is. Such positions are also in a state of collapse and the switch is fully "on" in the courts to reading the 1st Amendment "freedom of the press" as a technology as opposed to a job description.
For a more detailed look:
http://www.pennumbra.com/issues/pdfs/160-2/Volokh.pdf