But the moral of this tale is that the police officer went home safely to his family. Nothing else matters. No sarcasm implied, new LEO method of operation: shoot and kill ANYTHING that may threaten your authority.
It’s jerkoffs like this that will get more decent police officers hunted down and killed. My suggestion to honest, law abiding police officers is to start policing your own, and weed out the sadistic psychopaths in the departments hiding behind a badge. Their behavior will get you killed.
Would that they will listen-—but the willingness of police chiefs all over the country to defend psychopaths like this suggests that this is the sort of officer they *want* on our streets.
Unfortunately, even good cops will protect bad cops.
I have seen this personally.
The county sheriff who gave me the name and badge number of the city freak who humped me on the hood of his cruiser cared enough to offer advice but not enough to show up at the initial investigation hearing.
His testimony might have been invaluable, even though the affidavits of 20-some witnesses were ignored.
But he did not want to speak against “his own”.
The thin blue line is also a closed, impenetrable circle.