There is a HUGE difference between "Looking for trouble" and being "READY for trouble". Luck favors the prepared. He was sitting in a parking lot minding his own business, how in Odin's Beard can you come to the conclusion that that is "looking for trouble"????? Sheesh.
He did have every right to be there, but unless someone can show me otherwise, it appears to me Brett was there pretty much to catch a cop losing his cool.
I am reminded of the people who "just happened" to get Newt Gingrich's phone conversation on tape...nothing necessarily illegal, but it was no accident.