They feel that it was not right to arrest the kid...apparently, they don't realize that the dude was in a stolen car, and that the flag was not...
Do you know the back story here? The guys were there protesting the fact that the guy that stole and burned the flag on campus got arrested…thus...
Nah, I preferred what the student body planned on doing, and that was to have a counter protest an hour after the "flag burning" was scheduled....
Seriously though…how did they envision that going down. Did they feel that they had the support of the student body? That everyone would cheer...
Patriotic I guess.