They don't need to. While it's unlikely to happen to you, people have in fact been assassinated by others who they believed to be a regular camera crew:
https://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/10/06/bindra....
https://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/10/06/bindra....
Insofar as they’re both…objects?