Yes, because they were looking for "this one dude" as he was the one who allegedly was the guilty one.
They walked past the others because the others were not guilty of removing the park service notices and violating the law against removing them. No need to arrest innocent people when they knew who the guilty guy was.
Well, that kind of profiling will always get crimminals arrested.
Hardly fair, is it?
When the IRS comes to my door because I refuse to pay for Abortions, that's OK. When the EPA hauls me off becaue my tractor disturbed a nest of rare field mice, that's OK. When The Government arrests me because I built a house onmy personal property to which they lay and unpublished "use restriction" that's OK.
When I get a citation for allowing "coffee" to enter a drainage ditch on my own property, (true story) that's OK
But when a miscreant defies orders to evacuate now squallid public land on which he has illegaly squatted and environmentaly damaged, that is police brutality.
Simply beause he is from the OW movement, a brand now blessed by the president and his lacky's in the press.
Most Americans have turned away from the OW brand. It now only represents disobedience, nothing more. All their other (NOBLE???) messages are lost in the squallor, crime and drug use. Not even the President of the US can continue to condone this Occupy Wall street activety with a straight face.
Yet from the warm and relatively clean comfort of a swivel office chair, some will. To be what, onnery?
Civility is a neccesary ingredient in a democratic society. Everyone has a right to be disobedient in demostrating their views from time to time . But the OW crowd, however noble their original cause, is now just unwanted rabble. Even the most liberal of city officials, who once embraced them, have lost all patience. I cannot think of a more progressive flamming lib than the Mayor of Oakland and she is fed up.
So is 99% of the nation.
Couriously making the OW crowd, the one percenters.