The discipline is for the traffic ticket he wrote Parker Bell after the incident. Since Asmussen was off duty, Chief Jones says writing Bell the ticket went against department policy.
Nevertheless, the chief doesn't plan to drop the ticket against Parker Bell.
This makes a lot of sense. The cop is receiving disciplinary action for writing an unauthorized ticket, but that same ticket is going to stand. I'm curious as to what a judge would say about that.
If I were the judge for traffic court, I would chew the cop's ass and tell him he's damn lucky he's not facing charges for felony assault. (The way I see it, the cop was threatening to kill the other party for pulling his gun. Cops are trained to use minimum force necessary and do things to cool off a situation, not radically escalate the situation up to the line of using deadly force.)
Am I missing something? I thought it said that Bell cut in front of the officer, then the officer used the shoulder to pass him and started screwing around in front of Bell?
Clear case of "power trip" cop.