The police can't just go arresting people on trumped-up charges simply because they're not happy with the message of the demonstration. Many who took part in the protest said they did move to the sidewalk when the police order was given, over loudspeakers. Other marchers said they never heard the order. Police continue to insist that the arrests were justified. The decision to arrest them had been made a block back, and it was too late.
Demonstrators have to stay on the sidewalk or rightmost lane.
Plus they were false charges to begin with. Plaintiffs said the arrests seemed especially capricious because they were made just one block short of the Hall of Justice. 6, residents of Midway Village, a low-income housing development in Daly City, finally had their day in court. Despite years of organization and documented symptoms, the long-awaited settlement never materialized after the case was dismissed for lack of concrete medical evidence. Then I started having problems.