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Originally Posted by Livia

Like I said, he wasn't being held for eating a sandwich. He was issued a citation for eating a sandwich contrary to Public Health rules clearly signed, and after already having been informed of that by the officer.

He was being held because when the officer issued the citation the bloke kicked off.

In my book he's allowed to kick off for such a stupid charge. I'm quite surprised that as an officer of the courts you've made no comment on how frivolous cases like this take man hours and waste the courts time.

To me, that is the point - As I hinted to above - The incident is now famous, the guy is likely to sue and might win and the police department chiefs have to apologize. All in all, this action simply wasn't worth it.