An LAPD source tells us because cops didn't see the slap happen, they couldn't make an arrest on their own.
So there was one other way Will could have been arrested. Someone in the crowd -- and there were several thousand -- could have gone up to a cop and asked to make a citizen's arrest. Under California law,"a private person may arrest another for a public offense committed or attempted in his presence." No one in the crowd asked to do that.
Now we've also learned there was a flood of angry folks -- people who either called LAPD or actually went to one of the divisions -- and asked to arrest Will for battery. Thing is ... they didn't witness the slap in person -- watching it on TV doesn't count -- so LAPD could do nothing.
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