Crossing Guard Got Me A Ticket! Wtf!

So, there’s an intersection in Alaska that I came up to and all 4 sides were flashing red with a crossing guard/traffic officer person standing directly in the middle. As I’m approaching he just keeps waving everyone through, so I didn’t stop. Sure enough… couple hundred yards down the road is a law enforcement officer. He says I didn’t stop at a flashing red light.

I told him there’s literally a crossing guard/traffic officer person there directing traffic. In Alaska, does a crossing guard/traffic officer directing traffic not take precedence over the flashing light? I’ve never heard of such a thing. What’s the point of following their directions of helping the flow of traffic if we are all supposed to come to a full stop as normal.

After I got my ticket I circled back to a nearby parking lot to watch the situation. Basically, he would wave through traffic going north to southbound for about 45 seconds straight. Then, stop them to have east to westbound traffic go for roughly 30 seconds. This patterned continued.

Are we really just supposed to ignore someone directing traffic? What’s the point?