Originally Posted By: ILBob
An acquaintance who is in a position to know has said that the tactic the police may use is to arrest as many protesters as they can without much regard for whether they are especially violent or not to clog up the court system so badly that the protesters cannot get bonded out for 3-5 days.


I've never been to a protest before in my life, but this agrees with some of the things I've been told by politically active acquaintances. While some protestors make trouble, the police sometimes seems to arrest everyone in sight, even using rough tactics. This is scary stuff, and I'm not sure there's much you can do except to get out of there and hope you can get out.