would the Va State Police have arrested them?

probably

Not sure you're allowed to camp in parks

There's a lot of issues there

Those kind of parks

Bathrooms being the iggest one

Heres the problem and why Virginia is a shit show

most parks like that close

Virginia unlike most states has INDEPENDENT CITY LAWS

Thus Charlottesville is completely independent of all outside governments

there is no Sheriff in Charlottesville

the Charlottesville PD is absolute as are the city Magistrates

no County law over them at all

That's the problem with magistrates

In most states in America

With commonwealths

Most of Dixie and the Midwest

u have a 3 tired system

tiered

So say CITY X is in Y County

The City Police are still supreseded by the Sheriff in some matters

and both are superseded by the State Police

So your county government is over your city

You have a chain of governmentr

with an Independent City, you have a virtual City-State

Most states you are prosecuted by a COUNTY PROSECUTOR

In C VILLE its all the city

so if the city is bad, you have no recourse

That's interesting

Virginia is one of the few places with Indepenedt cities

Maryland also has it

Unless you complain to the state attorney general

Baltimore City and Baltimore COunty are 2 different places

About transport. We parked with hundreds others 2 miles away and got transported to Lee park by rented vans

Missouri has it as well

That’s the way it should always be done. You stage miles away

Saint Louis County and Saint Louis City are Separate

Yes Independent cities are good to be wary of

That was one oversight about Charlottesville everyone missed, the political chain of command

Signer literally was a virtual dictator

Signer took orders from Terry McAuliffe and the Clintons