[monday]

"All I saw witnessed was one profoundly idiotic person who committed felony resisting arrest and a couple of dozen idotic bystanders who committed misdemeanor interference with an officer in the performance of his duties."

It wouldn't bother you to be dragged out of the place where you worked in front of friends and colleagues for the crime of forgetting your ID? I would ask why he was arrested in the first place. As far as I know it isn't a crime to forget your ID.

[P-Marlowe]

If a police officer came up to me and told me I needed to leave, then I would leave, whether or not I thought I had some "right" to be there. If I refused and was belligerent, I would expect the cop to do whatever was within his power to subdue me and to make me comply.

In this case it is obvious that this guy was refusing to leave, at that point he became a tresspasser. The officer then called for back up, and when all of the officers asked him to leave and he refused, then the police then called the idiot's hand.

They could have beat him into submission, but then they'd get sued. They could have sprayed him with mace, but then that would have endangered everyone else who was standing around cheering this idiot on, or they could have tazed him a few times.

As far as I know it isn't a crime to forget your ID.

Refusing to obey the orders of a police officer, tresspassing, disturbing the peace and resisting arrest are crimes.