I literally told you that they knew they would be arrested.

I also knew about the kids, though I didn't talk about that here. We actually watched a documentary of one of those kids that got water-hosed and arrested multiple times in school.

A huge part of the point was to get arrested repeatedly, to the point where it was no longer affordable to arrest them, and to fill up the jails, clogging up the system in general (and forcing them to chose between targeting protestors for arrests or legitimate criminals).