My Rights

This past weekend was homecoming weekend. As a tradition, half way through the homecoming football game (which we won) the seniors go to the intersection of Deerfield Rd. and Waukegan Rd. right in the middle of town. Dressed in black and equipped with whistles the seniors run/leapfrog/craw across the road and the correct time. As a result there are police there to make sure that nobody gets hurt in the process. Overall there were not that many times when we were doing something that was technically against the law. We would cross when the cross light came on and we didn't jay walk. Granted there were a few times when we did go into the middle of the intersection and mosh or lay down but it was for a brief amount of time. Then all of a sudden when everyone was crossing the street this one cop grabs me and two other guys by the shirt and tells us, "you are under arrest for the obstruction of traffic." There were at least 200 kids there and he decides that he wants to arrest us three for something that 197 other kids were doing. He ended up just yelling at us and told us, "either go home, or go to jail." So I walked back to my car and then walked back to where everyone was and that was that. But the cop still grabbed me hard by the shirt and threatened to arrest me for a law that I was not even breaking. I see where he was coming because he might have wanted to make a statement saying that what we were doing was not okay, but none of the other policemen cared and if he was that upset, he could have made an announcement for us to stop. I do believe that the police officer did violate my rights but it was not that big of a deal.