If only that were true. An editorial by a nearby resident said that the police only dispersed the crowd "two or three times in the past six months". The HPD let this grow into a big problem, then responded with military tactics.
If they had been patrolling the area, dispersing crowds, handing out tickets for loitering, and arresting people that actually committed a crime over the past six months, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Now when the nut case kids get killed while drag racing the parents of my johnny does no wrong sues Wal-Mart and the policee from not protecting their kids from themselvs.
Only 42 of the 278 arrested were juveniles. The rest were legally adults. Are you going to blame their parents, too?
Most of us are questioning the actions of the police, which are very likely to be found illegal under Texas law. That doesn't mean that there wasn't a problem: only that the response to the problem was inappropriate.