A California town council member resigned Thursday after allegedly being caught on security footage peeing on the floor of an LGBT nightclub before fighting with the establishment’s manager.
Footage shared online by the Downtown Los Angeles nightclub Precinct appeared to show two men, Crescenta Valley Town Council member Chris Kilpatrick and his boyfriend, urinating all over the floor of the nightclub’s entrance in the early hours of Sunday morning. The two men can be seen standing close together while they appear to pee in the corner of the doorframe. “They first left the bar with full cocktail glasses in hand, then decided to go to our employee entrance, whip out their [shrimp emoji] and piss all over it together,” the club wrote in the caption.
The two men were also allegedly carrying cocktail glasses from the bar, which prompted an altercation outside the club. “They rounded the corner where one of the managers spotted the drinks and tried to take them away; the big one reacted by physically assaulting him, throwing him to the ground,” the club claimed in the caption, noting that the bar has several bathrooms the two men could have used.
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Kilpatrick’s lawyer claimed his client was acting in self-defense when he and the other man were approached by the club’s staff. ” The individuals were not uniformed. They did not identify themselves as staff or security personnel with Precinct Bar. The first individual grabbed my client aggressively asking if he had been at Precinct Bar,” Kilpatrick’s attorney John Duran told the Daily Caller via email. “My client instinctively pushed back in self-defense. It was reasonable for him to believe that they were about to possibly be gay bashed by these 2 individuals.”
Public urination is also a minor infraction in Los Angeles, so his alleged actions were apparently justified, the outlet claimed. “Battery is a misdemeanor offense including an unlawful touching as exhibited by individual one who grabbed my client first,” Duran noted, adding that the investigation is ongoing. (RELATED: ‘Watch How Bad It Gets’: 50 Cent Says Los Angeles Is ‘Finished’ Over No-Bail Policies)
Crescenta Valley Town Council told Kilpatrick that he’d be removed from his position if the allegations were proven true. He resigned the day before a scheduled vote on his future in the town.