Near the intersection of
Powell and Market, the police were out in enormous numbers. We did
not witness any kind of rough behavior from the police or from
protesters. Everyone was pretty calm. Unfortunately, by this point
we had picked up too many passengers, and we ended up getting pulled
over for having people in the back seat with no seatbelts on. (They
said nothing at all about our sign.) Up to this point I had been
scrupulously obeying every law I could think of, even stopping at red
lights when it was obvious that the mass of pedestrians filling the
street would prevent any cross traffic. But I forgot about the darn
seatbelts.
