You are really, really personalizing this thing. If being a half hour from seeing his family was such a big deal, he could easily have escorted the woman to her destination, less than a mile away. Happens all the time with borderline, mild intoxication or other mechanical issues.
But, no, he appears to have engaged in at least a bit of vindictive behavior, directed at the woman's husband, at a minimum. And, for that, he's under investigation, as is his fellow officer. It was hearsay, tit for tat up to that point. That's where things went flying right out the window as far as any remote pretense of propriety.
“he could easily have escorted the woman to her destination, less than a mile away. Happens all the time with borderline, mild intoxication or other mechanical issues.”
What planet do you live on? When YOUR family is hit by this lady who may have been “mildly intoxicated” and or upset about being stopped, or whatever, and she loses control of her car when being “escorted”....I am SURE YOU and YOUR attorney suing everybody and everything would NEVER EVER call the officer negligent for letting her drive........
SHeese. Somebody put something in the water today. It is either that or somebody passed out stupid pills at the barbecue thinking they were candy.