Most people, even having been through this situation, would not respond in kind. They understand at a visceral level that inflicting the same damage on an innocent animal for the sake of revenge, makes them no better than the cop. They also instinctively know that our new "royalty" will defend their "knights" and allow them quite a bit of lassitude in how they treat the serfs. After all, they just pay the lawsuits in other serfs money and laugh.
It will take far more than responding in kind to stop this from happening.
It will take far more than responding in kind to stop this from happening. And yes, it may well come down to that. That is an entirely different kind of action and undertaken for an entirely different set of reasons.
Another one where the real surprise that it hasn't happened yet...