Oakland and san fran combined have a total over 1.2 million people. And that’s just the cities themselves. The article notes 70 people shut down the bridge between them. That’s 0.006% of the population, and I’m generously assuming they all came from those two cities.

I’m not saying it should be criminalized, but in light of those numbers, your claim that if it’s an insignificant amount of people you can just drive around rings ridiculously hollow.