right on. I'm from Portugal and actually watched this live on TV when it happened. justice was served.

but in this case I think the crowd would have been shot at, americans are too easy on the trigger. and the guy had it coming...police brutality was wrong, but he was warned several times.

wow thats some justice!

High Pitch Eric @ 4:38

@Wyatt - I agree. I'm an American living abroad and I wish it could be like it is in Europe - respect is given, when respect is derserved.

Sure, let the hippie guy (wizard) go about his naked business and show the rest of the crowd the the cops are a bunch of pushovers. That's when the real riot begins. It's like telling your kid, "if you don't stop billy, you're going to get a spanking." and not following through with the punishment, or even worse putting your kid on "time out". Don't agree? Watch your kids walk all over you. Wizard's mom must be proud of her self. Dad too for the tiny chromosomes

Lets all do drugs man and get high and show the world how small our penises are. I'm not sure what event this was, but given the trendy-esq crowd I bet this guy warranted it.

I'm all for dissent, but he was just high and naked, there's a huge difference. I don't think Paul Revere was Lady Godiva. Nor was he a Dragnet special.

But, by all means, keep doing the mind altering drugs... I'm sure someday I'll see "The Wizard" on the underpass asking for change. Sadly, I don't carry change.

damn you're right. lol

the society we live in specializes in mimicking other time periods and societies. while festivals strive to re-create the feel and freedom of woodstock, it is all an act. 40 years ago everybody was naked. today if one person gets naked its an outrage. but on the really real, if this was burning man he would have been fine and dandy, but its not and he should know that, so naked wizard I say you got what was coming to you.

Look how easily others have been conditioned to show outrage over it.

Look how easily others have been conditioned to show outrage over it, yet do nothing anyways.

doing nothing? losers. they should've clothed the fool : what was the crowd thinking? idiot deserved it.

It seems clear that you have never had an encounter with the police. When you do, please enjoy your excessive brutality.

they didnt do anything wrong, he got plenty of time to comply, he was resisting arrest and even when they got him on the ground he got back up again

lol wut, do you have a video of police brutality that you'd like to share with us?

lol b t think lol wut was breakin the law

just want to add, that I think it's ridiculous that they are trying to arrest a man who wants to hang out his pride and joy for everyone to see. what is the big deal about being naked? is it justifiable to abuse a man just for showing his penis?

uhhh because it's illegal?

@lauren marques, there are a lot of things that are illegal and unjustly so in the united states. He wasn't hurting anyone, so why not let him run around naked? Who gives a shit?

@lauren - have you ever threw gum out the window of a car, used your cell phone in a hospital, threw trash on the ground, peed on the side of the road? Those are all illegal and I bet you have done atleast one of them!

Just because it should be legal doesn't mean it is. Go fight it in court if the law should be changed. You don't change the law by breaking it.

And morally equating being naked in public and using your cell phone in a hospital is absurd. Plus, using your cell phone in the hospital is against the rules of the hospital, not the law of the state.

I agree. But There are multiple cops here. The latino-looking cop showed restraint to a man who was not a threat. However, the pasty-white cop showed his intent to inflict pain and injury, starting out with face-mashing (2:27), and moving on to choking (2:44), and preemptively going to his stun gun even when the Latino cop told him to hold off with that (2:55). At that point, the big fat shiny-headed bald cop came up & dropped the Knee of Destruction +1 down on the wizard's prone chest, which was excessive force at best and assault at worst. After that it all went down hill with repeated tazings to a naked man who's only show of resisting arresting was in convulsing in agony.

@Coleman, Good job, you explained some differences between 2 things. You must have extra intelligence to do this. If only those differences were relevant to this argument. The argument as implied by Kori's list of petty crimes, was that petty rules/crimes can be especially petty depending on the location/situation. And especially in this situation, the extent of enforcement should reflect the level of the crime. We, of sound mind, say that it did not, by any means.

@lauren. Since you see in black and white as well, and seem to imply illegal activity is illegal activity. I hope the next time you go 1 mph over the speed limit, jaywalk, or litter, that you get karma'd with a few tazers to your spine. Or maybe we should just allow officers to use lethal force and simply shoot dead anyone who commits any crime big or small. Is good?

@Sebastian. You're right, he didn't have to subdued in that way. Had he done what he was asked (then told) repeatedly to do, he would have been fine.
@Rachel White. How do you know he wasn’t hurting anyone? How do you know that the reason the police confronted him was because there were complaints about his nudity? Did you talk to every single person at Coachella and see how they felt about his nudity? Doubt it.
@BarackObama. Thank you for noticing all the techniques that all cops are taught to subdue an unruly person. As you so clearly saw, as he became more beligerent, the techniques were escalated until the taser became a necessary tool. And what you can’t tell is he hit him right above the ass with the two prongs. He didn‘t get a very good connection so he isn‘t getting the full juice. So the officer was forced to press the taser right up to his chest to try and subdue him. And Lauren seems like to me the type of person that if she were to go 1 mph over the limit or jaywalk, she would go along with the officer to avoid being tasered.

The correct grammar would be "You're a fuck tard"

But thanks for the reasonable and meaningful discourse. People complaining when the police do their job in a reasonable way distract and demean real complaints on police brutality.

Amen.

It's the police, and it's Coachella, I'd expect no other response.

I thought that too! But with the negative reaction of the crowd they'd have given the game up earlier.

He offered more than "token resistance." The officers tried using pain compliance and it wasn't working. He endured some pretty painful knees to the ribs, wrist locks & arm locks.

@Anthony. You may not realize it, but he was putting up more resistance than you think. Just because he isn’t flailing around, doesn’t mean he still isn’t a threat. Have you ever tried to fight with someone on drugs? They can put a lot more of a fight then one or more officer could deal with.

Call me when you start your magical land where people have the right to choose when a cop isn't doing their job the right way, or at least in their opinion. I mean, in SizzleLand you might as well have no laws. Because pretty soon, every one will want it their way. So don't call me when your land goes to hell in a hand basket.

You're perverted. Your rights are not to be construed to protect licentiousness.

And yet every year millions of tourists flock to museums to see naked statues and paintings of far worse looking individuals.

Yeah people go to museums when they want to see naked statues and paintings. I missed the part on the Coachella flier where it said "Come See Naked Man With Tiny Penis Running Around"

Comparing apples to oranges.

YES! I totally agree! If I was there I would have rallied people to take off their own clothes in support.

Absolutely Kori!! A great idea! I'm Scottish and I can't believe that Americans will stand by and watch a man be tortured like that, just for being naked, which you can see any time or day of the week on TV. On this video alone, I would NEVER want to visit America!! Brutality like that is digusting and sickening to any civilised human being and the crowd were obviously horrified but also too afraid to take any action to stop the torture of a harmless, naked man.

Oh yeah dude. Totally cool crowd response. Break the law, to show support for breaking the law. You think the cops are going to be like "well they're all naked. They showed us." No, they'll end up calling in more police. And this video will play out again and again. And Maria, torture? Really, torture? How do you know this man was harmless? This guy was so high on whatever, he probably wasn't feeling much of that.

Yeah, man, shoulder muscles and chest muscles totally look like the heart.

i completely agree, i dont necesesarly agree with the man being naked but i sincerely dont think its soo bad to be naked, still 3 fat cops against 1 naked guy, they could of dominated him waaay better, so this video was to me evidence of how incompetent and lazyness in training....did anyone stop to think what if the guy had died? taking that amount of shock to his neck, chest and heart? what then?

Hey, uh, rex and natalia how many naked drugged up fat guys have you ever tried to arrest by yourself? I ask that because, it's a lot harder than you think. If you notice, they didn't taser him until he got up to run off once they had him down. The last thing they wanted to do was hurt him. They had him down, and had he stayed down that would have been the end of it. The taser is NON LETHAL weapon. Yes, people have died but its usually if they have pre-existing conditions. And had this guy died, it would have been sad but the cops would not be in any kind of trouble because they followed procedure and there is video evidence to prove it.

Was in his hip....watch the vid again....hope I never have to rely on you as a witness.

"let a player play."
You rule Erick. LOL!!!

>is an all ages show, nudity can be an issue
I really wonder what the sight of a naked man could do to a human that would justify to use of a possibly lethal pain-compliance device.

I wonder how it would have gone down if it was a little boy running around naked, as many small children do on hot summer days.

He would have have adhere to the officers with no problem, because they are innocent, but an adult acting they way the man did is beyond stupidity, what example does he give to his children or any other child that might have been there, it's ok to resist arrest, please, be more intelligent with your remarks.

Are you mad Tony h? Do you think I'd want my 9yr old son to see cops torturing a harmless naked man??? That is absolutely shocking and if you can't see how disturbing that violence is (as all the booing crowd did) then you should seriously go get some therapy. This is exactly what people allowed Hitlers brown shirts to do just because they didn't want to go against authority. So please YOU be more intelligent with your remarks.

@Ingomar. Okay, so someone saw this naked guy running around and thought "Well he is not following the law. Why am I?" So he takes his clothes off, but this time he decides he wants to attack an innocent female (lets say your mom or sister) to try and rub his dick on her. Would you say, "Oh man, he just wants to rape her? Whats the harm in that?"
@Kori. The parents would be to told to dress the child or get a ticket and/or be asked to leave.
@Maria. WTF. Comparing this situation to Nazis. You got some serious issues lady. Hitler/Nazis exterminated millions and millions of a race of people. You're fucking nuts. Thats like comparing apples and fucking crazy nazi motherfuckers.

good call stiffy, good call

Are you serious?????? Whether you agree with a law or not, you still have to abide by it or face the consequences. When we were kids we drank and ran from the cops knowing it was illegal. Regardless, there was nothing wrong with what the cops did! They warned him verbally before attempting to arrest, he RESISTED ARREST, so they got a little more physical, when he continued they resorted to taser him till he no longer posed a possible threat to the police. Ignorance and defiance of a law does not make it legal. He furthermore this was in no way shape or form of a violation of the 1st amendment. You have a given set of freedoms until they infringe upon the rights of others.

Why have you dealt with the US police so many times? And there is no way that you have friends that are cops because they wouldn't put up with you talking shit about cops in such a generality.

Agree with the comment.

I would say that contrary to popular opinion however, the true role of the police is not to actually protect people. FACT: In the U.S., the police have no legal duty to protect people and cannot be held liable if they fail to do so. In reality they are just glorified crime janitors.

The real purpose cops serve is to threaten violence against anyone that doesn't with to comply with the government extortion racket. Those that resist will be attacked. Those that defend themselves effectively (with a weapon of their own) will be killed.

That's the wonderful world we live in.

I am in awe with your comment. I did not know this, but yet again i am not a us citizen, lived there a while tho...still..wow!

Juan have you ever tried to arrest a drugged up person before? Its not as simple as you may think. They asked him to put his clothes on. They asked him to leave. They went to arrest him. And when he showed resistance they did what was necessary to resolve the situation.

Hey Seth where did you get your "Fact" exactly? I mean, you are dick if you think this country would be the same without cops. Look at New Orleans after Katrina, where people were shooting at people from rooftops, looting stores, and killing and raping people. Go live in Somalia where there is no policing. You are in for a stark realization about how good it is here. It's douche bags like you that try to get people to hate cops. I'm sure its because you got busted with a little pot or you doing something you weren't supposed too. And you told all your buddies you were harrassed because of your skin color, or how you dressed, or what you were driving in. Grow up and be a man. If you were held up at gun point, and the guy got away, you'd be crying that the cops weren't there to help you. Quit being such a pussy, and leave if you don't like it.

I think we can all agree on your final remark.

Isabel, I so sympathise. It must have been awful to witness that and be helpless to stop it! I'm sure the incident will have left a terrible lasting effect on all the people in the crowd. THAT is the real crime!

ya well the guy acted like a wild animal he should of listend to the cops if this was an all naked vanue then yes but it wasent and he was breaking some sort of exposure law. he was asked to put on his clothes for over 2 mins and got what he had coming

My issue is how do you police an 'alternative' festival with 'straight' laws.
Why not have compulsory drug testing all ticket holders

AND YES Tasers are way way better than battons... unless your wrongfully beaten with them, as they don't leave photogenic bruises for court

tasers shoot spikes into you actually, that leaves bruises itself, do you even know what a taser is?

sry but my uncle is one of those cops and they first tried to ignore him for about an hour but those same ppl who can be seen screaming in the backround kept on complaining to them that that guy was creepy and ruining their time. yeah that dude did use the taser too much u can see that my uncle pushes him to try & make him stop...btw all cops have to be tased every so often so that they realize what they are doing to ppl but the dude who acctualy tased the wiz deff needs to be tased soon!!!

They didn't watch three people abuse him - they watched three highly trained and well armed police officers who had great power over you.

To be fair, they gave him lots of chances to go quietly - he refused.