I can't say that the back story would justify such behavior, but I have little doubt there is a motivation for it.
Right and whatever the motivation it revealed someone who does not need to have a badge and a gun ever.
“Do you imagine there is some back story that would justify such behavior by a sworn police officer?
I can’t say that the back story would justify such behavior, but I have little doubt there is a motivation for it. “
I think his point wasn’t that there is something to ‘justify’ this, so much as explain this. Motivations can be proper, and improper. There is a reason this happened, even if that ‘reason’ is lacking proper reason.
Of course, this could just be a case of the patient had some criminal issue, and the cop was just being a thug about it. That happens plenty.