police behavior during arrest?

Question

I was at a bar the other night, and a guy was arrested for disorderly conduct. When he was bailed out, he came out with a gash taken out of his nose, and a huge welt on his forehead. He said that the police had washed his clothes for him because the cops said they were covered and caked with blood. Upon further investigation on my part, I spoke with the bartender of the bar at which the arrest took place in the parking lot of. There is still the blood in the parking lot from where they smashed his face against the ground. I asked the bartender, generically if there was a scuffle with the police last night, and he said “yeah, actually, some guy got the **** kicked out of him by the cops.” I’m just wondering about the legality of them washing his clothes without his consent. By the way, this is in Washington state.

Answer 1

He's in their custody, so they have a right to do anything they want with him and his possessions as long as they don't damage or lose them. It seems as though you are wondering if the police might have destroyed evidence of their own misconduct. The answer to this is probably no. There are two factors here:

First, the police probably have a good reason to think they did not do anything wrong. If he was drunk, it wouldn't surprise me, based on how the bartender seems to think nothing wrong occurred, that he fought with him, foolishly, and they took the appropriate measures to subdue him, even if it looks like they might have used excessive force.

Second, the bloody shirt is not really relevant to police misconduct. The only thing the shirt really shows is that he got womped on. It doesn't show by whom and it doesn't show why. The police and any number of bystanders can likely agree that he got womped on, and even by the police. Those aren't issues that would come up in a case of police misconduct here. The question is whether or not he was resisting them, which the shirt doesn't show, so the shirt isn't probative to the issues in the case.

Answer 2

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