The BP agent involved should be fired immediately. Possible charges to follow.
Well that's going to be a little hard since there are no BP Agents at the ports of entry between Canada and Alaska or Canada and the lower US for that matter.
Those were Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers which have blue uniforms. The Border Patrol has no stations in Alaska and have green uniforms.
CBP officers can be real pricks and that is coming from a retired BP agent. Every time I would meet someone and they would learn that I was a BP agent they would go off about the unprofessional and demeaning treatment they received the last time they crossed the border into the US.
I would have to explain that the BP works between the ports not at them and that we don't like CBP officers either because their stupid behavior was frequently attributed to US. LOL
Tennessee vs. Garner is the standard for the use of "dealdly physical force" .
For anyone , even an law officer, who is NOT in threat of deadly physical force to unstrap his gun , and point it at someone is the threat of deadly physical force,
and should be reported to his superiors.
This demonstrates a law officer who has "gone rogue".
If the law enforcement officer believes that it is against the law to photograph any law enforcement officer, and is in violation of Federal law,
he should be prepared to cite the law , chapter and verse, as it will be required in his report to his agency.
Sounds to me that the officer has spent too much time in his own mind, or watching too many spy DVD's. !