Is it safe to say we should all put our lawyer’s numbers on speed dial and phone them immediately when coming in contact with N.O.P.D.? Or at the very least request a second officer come to the scene?
In reference to this case, I can’t see someone making up such a story so that they have the details down like this gentleman. Of course, the tourists are the missing link. But it would probably be impossible to find them unless word-of-mouth does the job. But they would be able to determine if the tour guide was drunk, if the initial contact was similar to the story told by the tour guide.
And while we are on the subject, can “public drunkenness” laws please be quantified with an actual blood-alcohol level? And can it please be well beyond what the so-called “legal limit” of .08? That way people arrested for it can actually have some sort of proof for or against them. Because this selective enforcement is a too-often abused tool for law enforcement to arrest folks for looking at them wrong or perhaps even exercising their rights.
Either way, it couldn’t hurt to have someone to call in scenarios like the ones above.