Wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect more maturity and sense of duty from police officers - public employees with badges and guns - than from Starbucks employees?
If not, then why is a negative view of police inaccurate?
I have a higher opinion of the competency and service-orientation of the officers of my local department than I do of the qualities of a randomly-selected food-service employee. Perhaps that’s unjustified, but it makes me feel better about their driving around armed with guns and authority.
And here you go assuming that any ticketing by a police officer who was just called a pig would be in some way illegal. Do you have any clue how often the average cop ignores violations? The answer is countless. I bet if you fired up your Yugo today and rolled down the street, any cop could see 10 violations before you hit the first stop sign. Lucky for you and all of us, most ignore them and go about their business. Now, if you rolled down your window and called that cop a pig, you'd get exactly what you deserved. That's called real life, not theory.
So here's the way the world of policing worked years ago when America was great; call a cop a pig and those violations get really, really noticed especially when the manager of such a store is in, no doubt, countless violation of sanitary codes and other sundry city, county, local ordinances.