She should have known better than to walk by the unemployment office alone...
“The only thing that happened was that Ruth Orkin was wise enough to ask me to turn around and go back and repeat [the walk]… She told the man on motorcycle to tell the other men not to look at the camera.””
So, despite the claims, it is essentially staged.
Several of the men were obviously looking at the camera, and not the woman, and they had to be asked not to look at the camera.