Most were arrested after a riot had been declared and folks were ordered to leave. Arresting them was not illegal and they were breaking the law. However, 2 po

Most were arrested after a riot had been declared and folks were ordered to leave. Arresting them was not illegal and they were breaking the law. However, 2 points: as most district attorneys showed, people who were just there and didn't do anything were not prosecuted and so shouldn't really have been arrested. Secondly the declarations of a riot could be wrong, but at the time being in a riot was a crime. But let's ignore all that for a moment. Propaganda. 'innocent people being snatched off the streets..' (...in unmarked vans) Implies that the feds and local police are routinely illegally kidnapping peaceful protestors across the country. The truth is that this happened in one street in one city on one night only to less than a handful of protesters, still prortesting once a riot had been declared by uniformed feds in one unmarked van at the same time as uniformed feds in marked vans were doing the same thing a few yards away. That leads me to think that this small event has been turned into a propaganda story..it's a classic example. in groups think the out group believes propaganda and that we in the ingroup are immune to it. Don't believe the hype.