I think there's a good point here. The police don't know what happened, only what some complete stranger told them. For all they know, Partensky is the one wh

I think there's a good point here. The police don't know what happened, only what some complete stranger told them. For all they know, Partensky is the one who knocked the bike down, and then terrorized the victims into keeping quiet about it. I don't condone the behavior of the police in this situation; what looked like a bike accident in all likelihood was simply a bike accident. The fact that Partensky did not comply with the order to move away from the scene is disturbing and I don't remember it being part of the previous, heavily HN-commented version of the story. However, as others say, he probably didn't merit arrest, solitary confinement, strip to underwear, and all that lunacy. Surely the police have more important things to do than go after some goofy slightly inebriated nerd who calls in an accident. Actually I'm more likely to believe that they were anti-gay. He apparently is gay, and came out of a "gay leather bar". You'd think in SF of all places this wouldn't ever happen, but who knows; perhaps there's some bad blood between the SFPD and the gay community that I'm not aware of.