Citing Hawaii Governor Josh Green’s emergency proclamation following the devastating wildfires that claimed 115 lives last month, an officer with the Maui Police Department told O’Keefe, “It’s part of the emergency proclamation that this whole area is deemed under the wildlife disaster area…So if you guys park here, that’s technically in violation.”
However, when O’Keefe expressed his concern that the policeman was “going to detain” him, a Hawaii Army National Guardsman said, “No, they’re probably just being assholes, man. I’m a policeman in Honolulu and I never heard of that.”