On a separate note, I remember being part of a Republican "cheering" section that was ordered to move to a separate, farther area during a speech given by Al Gore and Joe Lieberman at a public park in La Crosse, Wisc. in 2000. Nobody was planning on throwing things at the candidates, but they moved our group much further away anyway. Nobody in our group protested, we just did what the cops told us to do.
Except that he was sitting in front of his kid's preschool, they were there, his arrest and tazering was witnessed by a member of the preschool staff, and her statement to the police was also a reason for the charges to be dropped.
The only thing that was bogus in all of this were the original charges.
Read the article again he said he was on his way to pick up his children. So from that I assume he was waiting for the train or subway to do so.
If it was not illegal then why the need to tell him to move along? And what if the other two 'disorderly conduct' citations were for similar reasons? If I am sitting in a public area doing absolutely nothing wrong then I don't expect to be harassed by police and rent-a-cops. Or are we now living in a society where what is legal depends on the mood of the cop at the time?