Excellent summation on your part.
I get that policing is difficult work. But a certain percentage of cops live for the escalation. If level 2 behavior is appropriate, they’ll go to level 5.
These stupid cops are driving a wedge between the police and honest citizens. Difficult times are ahead. That wedge will make things even more difficult.
I agree. And I worked with cops for a couple decades. In this case, the idiot cop was too stupid in trying to snare the dog with a wire loop device. He tried and failed for like 10 minutes, poor training. I owned a Shih-Tsu, very small dog. This one was meandering slowly. So idiot cop then pulls his gun and shoots it twice, picks it up and tosses it into a bin like garbage.
Then he gets argumentative with the owner, with threatening talk. This cop should be fired.