Lets see. They were (1) speaking in public, (2) walking on a sidewalk, (3) refusing illegal police orders.
Golly, send 'em to ole sparky already and be done with it! Such vicious dangerous thugs! (/sarcasm)
She was eventually persuaded to leave, but Im sure if she didnt, shed have been arrested. Otherwise someone would have even lost their cool with her and done something stupid. If it were a dozen guys trying to do what she did with bull horns, I dont think theyd have walked away from our area. Theyd have been stretched out.
Im sure if that girl had been roughed up, some fanatics would claim that it was because she was a Democrat or a woman. She was also black, and I sometimes wonder if there was a video camera trained on her like these Christians had, just hoping that someone would overreact and make heros of in the eyes of a gullible contingent like some on this thread.
Protests are permitted in order to keep them from becoming blood baths, with no one being able to prove who started what. This arrest was no more religiously motivated than an arrest of that girl would have been a racially motivated.