‘Job Well Done’: Police Responding to Public Indecency Call End Up Going Shopping for Suspect

You never know what you’re going to see on Halloween. It’s the one day of the year that going all out and dressing up like familiar or shocking characters is embraced and celebrated.

But locals in one area of Atlanta got a different sort of scare when they encountered a man dressed in clothes far too small for his frame, resulting in a multitude of indecent exposure calls.

Officer Nguyen and trainee Officer Prophete with the Atlanta 🚓Police Department responded and found the man wearing jean cut-offs and a shirt that were so ill-fitting that the resulting bodycam footage had to be blurred.

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The man wasn’t acting confrontationally and responded politely when the officers started asking him questions.

“Why’s your pants down, man?” Nguyen can be heard asking in the recording.

“That’s as far as they go,” the man responded.

“You can’t be walking around like that, boss,” Nguyen said.

The officers soon learned that the man didn’t have any other clothes with him. He said he’d go get more clothes “downtown,” but that was too far, and the officer proposed a different solution.

“Recognizing that the issue could be better addressed with empathy rather than Police