Ironic we were talking a few posts apart about these two things.
The affidavit regarding Evans arrest does indeed alude to him considering himself an "Independent member of the media" and he was just there to record history. The FBI then go on to blow that theory out of the water with all his social media posts leading up to the day.
He also thought that deleting the live stream he shot and osted to facebook would get him off the hook, nah,, someone reported it to reddit and the FBI watched it there.