The protesters changed tactics and no arrests were made in that station.
The protesters moved above ground and the responsibility for security changed from the BART Police Department to the San Francisco Police Department.
Various people spoke to the multitude of reporters about the Anonymous and No Justice No BART criticism of the BART PD. Several representatives of other protest groups (such as nudists and Native American Rights) with other causes, tried to avail themselves of the easy access to the large media contingent on hand to draw attention to their issues.
The protesters decided to walk to the Powell Street BART station and did so.
When it seemed to the World's Laziest Journalist that the evening was drawing to a conclusion, we took a bus to the downtown area to catch an AC bus back to Berkeley. As the bus approached the Embarcadero BART station area, we observed another phase of the BART protest and took some more photos.
For an individual writing about the event has to be a subjective report. You can't take photos of arrests and talk to the PIO (Public Information Officer) at the same time. You can't be on the scene and get an overview from the sidelines simultaneously. When another reporter says that arrests were made earlier at the Embarcadero station ticket booth, you can't categorically state hearsay evidence into a news story without either your own visual confirmation or an official police statement. The San Francisco Chronicle reported in its edition for Tuesday August 30, 2011, that two arrests were made at the Embarcadero station.
In the old days, a photographer would have to go develop the film and have an editor "AKA the photo desk" select a frame to make a print which would then "move on the wire" if it was good enough to meet their standards of excellence. Now, a digital photographer has to get to a computer, download his work, and for vertical shots, rotate the appropriate files. Then he edits his own work. We know of one instance where an editor used the opinion of a stringer to confirm "the desk's" selection from the available frames.
A photographer can't do the digital file clerk work and (if he is working at ome an lacke internet access) simultaneously monitor Internet news organizations at the same time. KCBS news radio indicated that the protesters had changed tactics for their protest on August 29, 2011.
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