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I wonder why he can’t sue each cop individually?
and Why aren’t they in jail?

Police enjoy a great deal of immunity for the same reason judges and public officials do. Every time a police officer issued a ticket to a litigious individual they would have to defend themselves in a lawsuit. Unless a police officer is acting with malice, that is for reasons unrelated to their official duties, they are immune. This case looks like a obvious case of overzealousness. But if I responded to a case of a report of domestic violence with a firearm, I would have my adrenaline pumped up, for sure.

My mother-in-law had Parkinson's. She was also mean-spirited and spiteful. For some reason she took a shine to me, and obviously envied her daughter. Which did not help things. One day while arranging magazines on a coffee table she fell and bruised her face while we were there. Someone, I am not sure who, called an ambulance. The ambulance and the fire chief showed up. The chief was apparently there to "investigate" in an informal way. I thought his behavior was appropriate and reasonable. He saw an old, handicapped woman with a bruised face, an older man, and a young muscular man married to the daughter, who was also present. He asked my MIL if anyone had hurt her, and she assured him that no one had. The ambulance crew rendered first aid and left, but I noticed a gleam in my MIL's eye.

This was back in the day of landlines and touchtone dialing. My MIL had become bed ridden so I got her a phone with auto dialing. Fire and ambulance were not "911" in her town, so I programmed the phone with those numbers, as well as ours and other convenient numbers. You know where this is going. She got in the habit of calling police and ambulance to say that her husband had assaulted her. My FIL was a well known person in town, and knew most of the police and fire personally, and was absolutely incapable of what she claimed, and showed no signs of bruising or assault, so they began to ignore her calls.

Apparently, that is what the wife in this scenario was doing. SWATting her own husband. It's a thing with nasty old women.