> He edges along the stationary vehicles until he is parallel to a car. It is well over a minute before the driver looks up and spots him – and the camera strapped to his baseball cap.
You might also say it doesn't matter if you roll through a stop sign when there's no traffic or pedestrians around. You can still get charged for that.
Other commenters in the thread have claimed that the light being red doesn't matter -- it's prohibited regardless. So -- do you have a source of a specific statute that mentions light color?
Traffic wasn't moving at the time.