I am among those who is "curious" and I am admittedly not sure what I am actually seeing in the video.
I am seeing CNN reporters (?) "arranging" these protestors for a report, I can see this being a common thing and of course it doesn't mean the protest "is staged". However, I could understand someone seeing or interpreting it as being "staged", and indeed I don't actually know from the video of the event, whether the protest itself is "staged", whether the protestors are "genuine". (Common sense says it isn't because CNN would be pretty stupid, besides the idiotic idea of a "staged protest" of course...)