My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: Washington
I was cited for a "failure to yield to a pedestrian in an unmarked crosswalk" today.
I was driving down a busy one way street after just proceeding from a red light. There were 3 cars directly in front of me. Naturally I was watching these cars. We came upon a group of 5/6 breaking cars in the lane next to me. There were pedestrians on both sides (left and right) of the street on the sidewalk at an intersection at which the cross traffic has to stop. I saw no intent in any way from the pedestrians to cross the street in any direction as they were back from the curb talking. The lane next to me all stopped however the 4 cars in my lane continued. As we went by I saw that the car in the front of the group in the other lane was a police officer. He came up behind me at a red light I was stopped at a little further down the road and turned on his lights. I then pulled into a parking lot and he proceeded to issue me a ticket for the failure to yield.
He said he singled me out because I was the last car to go by (there was no other cars behind me at any point) and because of that, I had plenty of time to see the pedestrians and then stop for them. He also said that the other few cars had gone through the light already and there was no way he could catch them.
So my questions are:
1. Is this action ticket worthy?
2. Is there such thing as the presence of an unmarked crosswalk where pedestrians have the right of way at a controlled intersection such as this one?
and...
3. Should I contest this ticket or just go to mitigation to hopefully get it reduced?
Any help in this matter is much appreciated.

