[JLS]

Amazing, innit, how quickly anarchists run to court.

What would you have him do, catch the punk cop off duty and kick his butt? Taking ones own physical retribution is one morally legitimate, but not legal, response to being assaulted. In a lot of ways it can be the best response from society's point of view as it shows the punk he can not get away with it. But this is a cop and that changes the calculus. It is probably best that he and the city end up in court. BTW, it does not matter what the politics of the victim are.

[martin_fierro]

Taking ones own physical retribution is one morally legitimate, but not legal, response to being assaulted.

With your insistence on application of the Rule of Law, you'd make a lousy Anarchist.