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Why would you need witnesses when you have video evidence?
Witnesses need to introduce the evidence as to where they got it, where it was recorded, and how it was recorded, and if it was edited or it's hearsay and inadmissible. These are common law evidence rules that are older than modern police forces and predate either pictures or video to where you were arguing about a tally stick contact. That said, the cops only want to be the sole depondent for citation level crimes usually so they've decided they don't want to do the legwork of getting the person who recorded it to be the witness. They just don't want to do the work. They'll come up with reasons for that, but that's the core.