It is clear it all happened before 11 pm. If they had the evidence to prove otherwise (police records) they would have produced them.
I resist the racist labels, but does anyone believe they would have treated a similarly dressed, similarly groomed white man the same way?
How stupid can a city be? How does charging your car cause a problem? If it does, then sue the damn city for building an attractive nuisance.
No logical person would assume the park closing times would apply to the chargers in the parking lot, obviously in the front of the park (or the city is even dumber than I thought) - even if the signs were clearly displayed.
How can cops be sooooo stupid? They have to know what’s going on, yet they escalate this innocuous situation into a physical confrontation, knocking the guy down, pepper spraying him, and arresting him....all while being videoed on a bystander’s cellphone. I don’t want anyone that stupid washing my windows, let alone patrolling my streets at night with guns in their hands!
This guy should win a settlement big enough to bankrupt Santa Monica. And if he doesn’t, every policeman in the country should sue their asses for putting every patrolman’s life in mortal danger.
This is abject idiocy!
I worked with the police almost every time I went to work for 25 years. Most of them were pretty good people, but I did meet a few who were just this stupid, especially when challenged. I got in conflicts with a couple of these guys while on duty and caused them to go into hissy fits and was threatened with arrest on more than one occasion.
With all of the other crap going on around the country one would think that even the dumb ones would be smart enough not to get themselves into a situation like this. But one would be wrong, because simple stupidity rules the world.
“I resist the racist labels, but does anyone believe they would have treated a similarly dressed, similarly groomed white man the same way?”
I’ve been treated like that by the pigs, and only because I happened to be driving a route where drunks come off the mountain (Angeles Crest Highway, in Los Angeles). Of course I wasn’t either drunk or speeding, but that didn’t seem to matter to the pig.
I got over it.
The mythical good cops better start policing their own.