You mean their co-workers? And if this video didn’t exist and wasn’t broadcast, what do you think the narrative would be? I’m betting it would be “he was coming right for us”. And it would be believed, hook, line and sinker.
How about they don’t post the video until the dept. has a chance to prosecute their own. If anyone actually ever sees the cover-up, they sitll have the video.
Your assumptions that all cops are rotten is the kind of thinking that’s getting them ambushed.
You can bet if they knew someone was videoing them, they’d have confiscated the phone and wiped it clean.
It looks to me like they shot him in cold blood.