They've been less mouthy as of late, not sure why. You left out "We don't know the whole story." from their list of favorite excuses.
They’ve been less mouthy because it’s slowly sinking in through their thick skulls that they’re excusing the inexcusable.
When the tacti-kool wannabe’s are using force to take down a 95 year old man (who, no surprise, subsequently dies from the abuse of the cops) and we see a SWAT team dispatched to an animal shelter because they’re holding a whitetail fawn, there’s no defense possible.