Huevonkiller stole my answer. Also though, they were told they could hand out their booklets 5? blocks away. I assume there is some sort of city ordinance that backs that up, Im also assuming that the Muslims in this story were smart enough to get any city license or approval that they needed to protect themselves and receive backing from the police knowing that something like this would happen. Moves by both groups were obviously planned in advanced with certain expectations by the other groups. Why did the christians have a video camera in the first place if all they care about is spreading the faith? In this instance the Christians were the aggressors and clearly in the wrong as the muslims were just trying enjoy their day and faith, the muslims would have been better off ignoring them and might have overreacted a little bit but given the current climate and attitude towards them I can't blame them to much for calling the police, and they could have avoided actual violence by doing so.