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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
The problem with that is if it's against the law and your job is to enforce the law you're not really given the choice which laws to enforce and which not to enforce.
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Yes they are given a choice. It's called discretion. Cops do it all the time.
Again, we don't know what was going on before the video. They may have been watching the guy for a while. They may have even approached him before this incident. We just don't know. The cops did have a duty to control the situation; they could not have just let it go. If he'd been sober and coherent they probably WOULD have let the nudity slide (as long as the event is 18+) regardless of the nudity laws. It was his mental state along with the nudity that got the cops involved.
I do think the knee drop was excessive. It's the sign of an aggressive cop ... the kind of cop who became a cop just so he can "fuck with people." I'm sure it's because the cop was jealous that the wizard-dude had a larger penis.
I'm not sure how I feel about tasers. They wouldn't have had to use the taser in this case if they'd have just handcuffed him instead of causing him pain. Pain causes people to act as if they are resisting when in fact all they are doing is reacting to pain. Most cops I know are aware of that. The pain and the fact that the guy was rolling (I'm assuming ecstasy) made him more difficult to deal with.
The cops started out right ... just asking him to put on the robe ... but after two or three request they should have just carted him away. No pain involved. It's the way things used to be done.
EDIT: Coachella is all ages. The cops had to get the guy to put his clothes back on or remove him.