well there ya go wrote:
It pretains to the situation and is relevant information as to why the whole thing started. It's not distracting anyone but the people who are screaming for injustice and how to save their friends life. Well a good way to have done so would have been to not enter a women's bathroom and they should have considered that prior to the current situation. This would have saved everyone else a great deal of time.
It pertains to the situation in the same way that the party itself or even the race pertains to the situation. Had they not gone to the party, this would have been avoided. Had they not run the race, this would have been avoided. Had they not become runners in the first place, this would have been avoided. All these things are antecedent to the end result. That doesn't mean they are relevant to the questions we're asking.
The relevant question isn't whether the men involved were doing something silly (I certainly haven't been convinced that they did anything illegal). We can all agree they did something silly. The questions are a) whether there was excessive use of force by the police; and b) whether the man who has been charged is guilty.
With regard to a), excessive use of force by police has nothing to do with them going into the bathroom. There is no logical way to justify excessive force by the police based on them going into the bathroom. This can only be justified by an imminent threat to the officers' safety. Clearly, nothing about a couple dudes in the bathroom can lead one to conclude that such a threat existed. Could such a threat have existed? Of course. But that's a question that's independent of any other crime (or silliness) that was supposedly committed.
With regard to b), the charges in question are likely related to assault or resisting arrest, and have nothing to do with being in the bathroom.
To compare the potential "abuse of rights" committed by going into a women's bathroom during a party to the potential abuse of rights committed by officers of authority using that authority to get away with assaulting others is ludicrous. Again, I'm not saying that the officers did anything wrong. I wasn't there. But in no way does bathroom "trespassing" justify assault by police. No way. Not in America. That's why we have Rights and a Constitution. Those aren't superseded for the drunk and immature.