It is YouTube's standard practice to remove any material that they receive even the flimsiest threat for because the company wishes to avoid all litigation.
Some skipped over these flimsiest of barriers and got closer still to the action, keen to get a grandstand view, much to the fury and dismay of police officers.
Like you'd expect, 99% of the stuff is total crap, but our pals over at Tiger Telematics have been issuing press releases for their new Gizmondo portable game console almost every day lately, often on the flimsiest of pretexts.