That is precisely what they did.
If it's true that people were actually causing a disturbance, then why did the cops go to the trouble of posting bullsh*t signs on PRIVATE property that said "No Tresspassing by Order of HPD"?
I do not know. Why don't you ask them?
What does matter is that a whole bunch of people who were minding their own business and engaged in patronizing legal businesses were arrested by a bunch of gun-toting, government-employed thugs.
Over 200 people in one place on an early Sunday morning?
That's a knee slapper. You got anymore jokes as funny as that one?
That is precisely what they did.
Along with a whole passel more of folks who didn't even have a plausible connection with it. The only actual, demonstrable crime there was a curfew violation on behalf of some unaccompanied minors, and I wouldn't blame prosecutors for not dropping those specific charges, but they did anyhow because proving it with the sloppy arrests would be one mell of a hess in court. Legally there wasn't any trespassing because it turns out that neither K-Mart nor Sonic asked for people to be barred from their lot.
"The 278 people were arrested early Sunday morning by police who were assigned to stop illegal drag racing.
The officers said the captain in charge, Mark Aguirre, ordered them to round up everyone who was outside the 24- hour Kmart Super Center or eating at the Sonic Drive-in next door in the 8400 block of Westhemier, even though they found no drag racers.
Also taken into custody were 42 juveniles who were cited for violation of the city's midnight curfew. Thirty of the juveniles also were charged with criminal trespass."
Now, to respond to your post.
I posted:
Arrest the people who are actually doing the law breaking.
To which you replied:
That is precisely what they did.
No, I'm afraid it isn't. Either you are being deliberately stubborn, or you just can't understand English, but what precisely happened was this: The police engaged in a wholesale roundup of citizens without regard to whether the citizen was actually engaged in any wrongdoing. Some of these people may have been wrongdoers; many of them were not.
The irrefutable FACT, which you have not produced any evidence to controvert is this:
A whole bunch of people who were minding their own business and engaged in patronizing legal businesses were arrested by a bunch of gun-toting, government-employed thugs.
You call this a "joke" and a "knee slapper." Got anything intelligent to say about it, or are you going to continue to argue a point that you have lost?