This is all about a police department that decided to use indiscriminate mass arrests in an effort to terrorize people and prevent them from congregating in public. You don't have a problem with that because you don't want these people to get together in your neighborhood.
I understand that. I wouldn't want them a couple of blocks from my house, either. But there are legal ways to deter that, and there are illegal ways. There are ways to prevent police harrassment of those people who are out in public minding their own business and obeying the laws.
You are in complete and utter denial of the police misconduct in this situation, and you are going to be very surprised when you, as a Houston taxpayer, is going to be required to pay untold millions of dollars in lawsuit awards.
I wish there was a way to bill those awards only to Houston citizens who don't think anything wrong occurred here.
I live in Houston and have been following this story - the folks who claim this was a legal congregation forget that in reality that the vast majority of the folks arrested were loitering on private property, and they were definitely ricers who clearly contribute to the problem of drag racing any where such groups hang out. I'd be content for a sweep to be performed in my area of Houston where there's an abandoned grocery store. I've also seen the video of these so-called 'victims' and I don't buy it that most of them were some goodie-goodie straight-A student caught up by coincident.
There's no question the police officers could have handled this differently - but let's not exonerate all of these people and villify the police. Let's be honest about the situation and call it what it was - not what the media has painted it to be. A group of kids should NOT be hanging out doing the stuff they do at these intersections, their parents should jerk them by the short-hairs and let them know they screwed up, the police should do their job better and not make it so easy for these kids to twist their way out of a situation.