Jason Russell, the filmmaker behind the mega-viral "Kony 2012" documentary, was arrested in North park on Thursday night, NBC reported, citing the Hillcrest Police Department.
Russell, 33, "was taken into custody after he is discovered masturbating in public areas, vandalizing cars and maybe under the influence of something," NBC's North park affiliate reported, citing Hillcrest Police Department spokeswoman Lt. Andra Brown.
Russell, 33, "was taken into custody after he is discovered masturbating in public areas, vandalizing cars and maybe under the influence of something," NBC's North park affiliate reported, citing Hillcrest Police Department spokeswoman Lt. Andra Brown.
The Hillcrest Police Department's Brown didn't immediately return two messages left Friday from Yahoo News.
The co-founder from the San Diego-based advocacy group Invisible Children was detained on San Diego's Pacific Beach "acting very strange" the NBC report said.
Russell's 30-minute documentary on Ugandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony as well as the Lord's Resistance Army was a surprise mega viral hit, receiving over 80 million viewers since its release a week ago. But the film has additionally kicked up a backlash of criticism up against the group, which range from how Invisible Children spends its finances as to whether it go cheap with the facts to create a more compelling film in regards to a more than two-decade old Central African conflict.
But Invisible Children has additionally found many prominent defenders of their work, from people in Congress to The president, who sent 100 U.S. special forces to Uganda last fall to find Kony.
"I think that this business are getting mercilessly picked apart by way of a bunch of intellectual elites who spend their days tweeting but never trending," Cameron Hudson, former Bush White House Africa hand, told Yahoo News a week ago. "If their aim would be to raise awareness, they've got done that in spades."
