[Blood of Tyrants]

It’s all they have to say and the police department will back them up to the end.

[normbal]

Yep. First the cop's going to get a paid vacation pending “an investigation” then he's likely to get an interdepartmental transfer, most likely into another precinct, and all the boys in blue will keep to their gang-style “no snitch” rule and speak up for him in court. “The youth made a furtive gesture,” “The officer in question, a decorated police veteran, feared for his life and took reasonable precautions to stop the threat,” all that. Yep.