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Okay, here's some insight from a guy who's been running strip clubs for 4 years...
Bouncer was ENTIRELY in the wrong.
First of all, if you have a problem with a customer for any reason and have already decided you want them to leave - you ask them to talk to you outside. That way they peacefully leave the club and if there is an incident ... they're not breaking shit inside.
I have never and my doormen have never followed a customer into a bathroom to make them empty their pockets. If we knew they were selling drugs (it happens) to the girls or other customers, we'd wait for them outside the bathroom door, then ask them to leave.
I have also always followed the rule "If they're bigger in size or numbers, then you can hit." There is NO reason to assault a customer/patron/guest unless you are in danger and they initiate - and even then if you can take them to the ground or subdue them without hitting them, that's the course of action you take. If there are three guys and just you, nobody is going to lose their job for punching someone to defend themselves.
Also with the emptying the pockets thing, can you do that in a club? Hell yes. I have done it and I've worked at clubs where we enforce it. What you CAN'T do is go through that persons shit, yourself. You can ask them to open their wallet, or anything like that, but you can't pick it up and rummage through it. We have also patted people down checking for guns or weapons or drugs. Sometimes you have to but you do it to EVERYONE and BEFORE they come in the club.
Locking the guy in the bathroom is something I've never seen before. I have locked customers in a club before - but for their own protection and they knew what was going on .... there was a shooting at a business next door and I wasn't letting them outside until the police came and the shooter(s) was(were) gone. Nobody was upset about that.
That bouncer just put himself, the manager, the head doorman (if he wasn't), the club, the owner(s), and the liquor license in jeopardy. That guy will likely sue when he sees that video (why would you record that shit anyway?) and the club will be liable.
Theft, assault, wrongful imprisonment, and I don't even know what else but those are good enough for at least a 7 figure settlement, without having to try.
I would fire any staff member if I even had the thought go through my head that they'd be capable of something like that.
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