In regards to the above post by Joe, the angry driver yelled something like, "you'll see what's going to happen" when I passed him while walking to my car from the peace demonstration on Branciforte Overpass as he drove away. This was after I saw the driver speaking on his cell phone.

I am curious about why a CHP officer would need to take the names of demonstrators in the event of an accident. It seems that the CHP would have no rightful authority over pedestrians not operating a motor vehicle. The only point to doing that might be to collect information for the person who had the accident for the sake of legal proceedings against the demonstrators, IMO.