The knee-on-neck cop had 17 prior excessive force complaints in his file. All but one were dismissed. That might have given him some confidence that the odd were in his favor.
I'm totally with you. But ... he was being video'd by people who clearly were not fans of what he was doing ... in this day and age when every cop's got to know it's goin' right to Mr. Internet ... not just reported to his superiors ... did he think he was gonna get a bunch of likes and thumbs up? Become a social media hero? (rhetorical question)
All I'm saying is ... I guess I'm never baffled by malfeasance and humans causing suffering (and death) to other humans. That's common and par for the course since the beginning of man. Some people are just missing the empathy gene and I don't mean that in a snowflake liberal way ... some people are simply not aware that there is a difference between banging a man's head with a hammer and banging a nail with a hammer. It's common even if not to that extreme.
But ... the brash stupidity of doing this while being video'd IF there is no explanation ... is a remarkable thing.