Either/Or

Their nominal mission is to protect federal property from vandals, but civilians have reported being caught up in sweeps while doing nothing more than peacefully protesting or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. [More]

I'm wondering if that's what the "civilians" were doing at the time they were bagged and if there's strong probable cause evidence of them having done something earlier to warrant picking them up when opportunities for resistance will be minimal and apprehensions are safer for all involved.

I'm also wondering if there are Democrat politicians who will be proven to be in direct collusion with the arrestees, and they're squawking in the media now to get ahead of and redirect the story.

Then again, the feds could just be Nazi baby-killers out to crush all civil liberties under their jackboots. But that doesn't necessarily invalidate my hypothesis.