Again, why is this being turned around to the cops perspective? I've never said the cops shouldn't ask for things, it's them doing their job.
From a civilian's perspective you should limit your exposure to the police to the bare minimum to actually aid them in solving a crime. This is what every lawyer will advise you to do, at least until you actually talk to a lawyer who can help you piece together why the cops are asking you for something.
Right, he had a lawyer though.
A lawyer who could have literally gone "okay, heres my clients phone, im gonna watch you go through the call history you want to check, and make sure thats all you do because I dont want you getting slipped a few grand cash bonus from TMZ for dick pics".
The phone was part of the alleged crime - like, a specific point was made that there was an aural witness to the crime in the form of the manager who he was on the phone to at the time the incident occurred.
Verifying that would take like, literally seconds to do, and would in no way cause any blowback, whereas refusing to do so is... well, maybe justifiable, but
odd.
A lawyer wouldn't say "No, fuck them they can go subpoena records for that info" because it just holds things up for no good reason, especially if they cant find any video from the time the incident occurred, and checking at what time that phonecall was made confirms the timeline too - because victims and witnesses
also lie, and on a no-guilt stance, they
also get things
wrong, and its super understandable if you've just been in an attack you might - for example - have distorted sense of how long has passed since it happened after the fact.