Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Public Urination and Obstruction of Justice

There is a downtown bar with an outdoor patio. The first person was standing outside the patio on the street smoking a cigarette when someone from the patio struck up a conversation with him. The security at the bar asked him to leave. He moved further away, clearly on the street and not on the bar's property. The bouncer came out of the patio and attacked him, but got fought off. Another person come by and urinates in an alley next to the bar. The police show up, probably called by the bar, and detain and cite the first guy for public urination although they were not there when it happened and if they had been they would have seen it was not him. They probably issue the citation based on what whoever called them said. Yet another party comes to try and help by telling the police that it wasn't the first guy. He is asked to step back, which he apparently doesn't hear, and is arrested for obstructing justice. He spends the night in jail. The bouncer apparently realizes he shouldn't have attacked a random guy on the street and is not present during any of this. Several other witnesses give the guy who was cited for public urination their contact information, but do not speak with police out of fear of also being arrested. What now?

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