This type of “I’m so much smarter than everybody else that I don’t even need to Google the statutes to think I know better” attitude is exactly how many people end up telling on themselves to the cops.
None of those statutes you’re babbling about would actually seem to fit, here. If you’d bothered to look them up, you could have made an argument for one paragraph of public intoxication, but it’s still paper thin and it’s a waste of taxpayer resources to bring that as a lone charge against, I assume, a college kid who got punched down some stairs and lost some teeth.
No idea why the police would cook up charges that aren’t going to stick or why that’s something a supposed fiscal conservative who already thinks police need to be reformed would advocate for.
The rest of what you’re saying would only make sense if the stairs that dude got knocked down were inside McCullough’s home. They weren’t. And the information available to the police is that that’s because dude realized he made a mistake, apologized, and left. The information available to police is that McCullough followed him outside, decked him, knocked him down some stairs, and he lost some teeth. Then there’s blood on the stairs, McCullough had left the scene, and when he came back his hand is bandaged.
That’s well past probable cause. It’s not a bad look. This is exactly how it should go down in every corner of all 50 states. Maybe it turns out to be ******** and he stole something or he’s been stalking the girlfriend or whatever, but that’s not in evidence.
