No you dont need a permit to cross the street in fact you have to give way to people crossing the street. But they weren't crossing they were blocking the street therefore you would need a permit for that. Also I agree with the occupy movement and understand completely the 99% to 1% thing but this here is people just attacking his car because he has a nice car and is supposedly part of the 1%. I am not biased in fact I have arguments for both sides although I am leaning towars the 99% side.
Also I may have been wrong about him not going to be charge but he hasn't been charged as of yet and hasn't been arrested. He had a green light and had waited for passes by to walk past his car which most did and you can see that partially at the start of the video but the 2 idiots banging on his car had blocked him when he had a green light and provoked him thus he has not broken any law as the other 2 were disturbing the peace and blockading a road although police are still gathering info. You can read this information by searching google and viewing any of the news article links but I read the washington post article.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/02/BA5G1LQ06S.
I completely agree with the fact that no one should be run over for crossing the street, but they weren't crossing they were blocking it in which case needs a permit, also again disturbing the peace, property damage etc.
I am not biased and am happy to hear anyones opinion and fair enough it is pretty intense to run someone over although I probably would have done the exact same thing, just remember if he did it too atack them and start on them why would he hang around for the cops huh? He could have kept driving away.
