"These people were demanding that they go to prison."
I've yet to see any of them shown wearing a "please send me to prison" tee shirt. Lacking that, your comment is as incoherent and offensive as blaming a rape victim because she "was asking for it."
Only if the rape victim crashed the mosh pit of a gangster wrap concert while screaming insults with the N word and dong a naked erotic dance.
When I told Poohbah that they were “begging to be arrested”, I was speaking figuratively. They crashed a permitted gay protest, marched toward the stage, refused police instructions to go to their counter protest area and began chanting through bull horns. That’s begging to be arrested. They left the police zero alternative.