You’re drilling a dry hole with this one. A simple search shows he was in San Francisco acting as a legal observer and was illegally arrested a week after the riots as part of a pre-emptive mass arrest of the marchers.
“In an essay he wrote soon after the rioting and republished in The Huffington Post in May 2007, Jones said he “just marched around and chanted slogans” as other protesters set trash cans afire, smashed car windows and threw rocks at passing motorists.”
Are all liberals just unable to process reality?
Van Jones arrest is not the issue. The issue is that he said, "I was a communist".
After graduating, Van Jones became involved with a group explicitly committed to revolutionary Marxist politics.
The current concern over his previous words and deeds are because he has the ear of the President and access to $30 Thousand Million taxpayer dollars.
So far that's it for any evidence that he was in San Fran. On the other hand when Van Jones says he gets locked up after a march and then becomes a Commie, that's a lie ~ he must have already been a Commie to get a job with the Lawyers Committee.
A guy who will lie to you about when he became a Commie will probably lie about everything.
In other words, he was acting as a cheerleader for those who were rioting. He kept his hands relatively clean and can deny any wrongdoing.