This is a BS story; the delivery robot company turned over footage to LAPD in a case involving the attempted theft of one of their robots. This is no different from someone with a security camera at their home turning over footage of a burglar.
This is the third duplicate of <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769272">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769272</a>.