The police could have handled this a better way. They could have told them it was a safety issue since other people were walking through and not expecting others to be dancing, could have asked them to move out on the lawn, away from walkways if they wanted to dance. Instead, they called it a "demonstration" and started threatening with a weekend in jail and could not even name the charge. Of course it escalated! Maybe we didn't see the beginning of this, but it is good we have these videos so judges can see what happened.
The police could have handled this a better way. They could have told them it was a safety issue since other people were walking through and not expecting others to be dancing, could have asked them to move out on the lawn, away from walkways if they wanted to dance. Instead, they called it a "demonstration" and started threatening with a weekend in jail and could not even name the charge. Of course it escalated! Maybe we didn't see the beginning of this, but it is good we have these videos so judges can see what happened.
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