"The police lieutenant is being investigated.
He stayed in his car and ducked for cover while all this was going on."
That kind of situation is all to common in the ranks of police management, many of whom view incidents as this as another reason why they need to stay in the police station and work on ways to cover their ass.
The police system grinds the good supervisors down into being mere paper shufflers and the good cops soon learn that to survive they need to drive around with blinders on.
Sad situation for the good citizens depending on the police to protect them.
I agree with everything you said.
I told my son to put in his 20, and get out.
The public does not support the cops in NYC.
Even the mayor is not waiting for all the facts.
At least Guiliani supported them. During the Diallo shooting, he said to wait for the facts to come out.
They had a change of venue, and the cops in that case were tried upstate and acquitted.
But Bloomberg has already said, he wants them tried in Queens. He's already got them going to trial.