The cop's attorney? You think he made up the "excuse," as you call it? Careful, pal---you're transferring your feelings of hatred for cops to this lawyer the cop has hired.
As I indicated, maybe the cop's a bigger meathead.
But I have to provisionally accept the words of the attorney as his own.
Careful, pal---you're transferring your feelings of hatred for cops to this lawyer the cop has hired.
I don't hate all cops. Just the ones who dishonor their badges. And, unfortunately, said dishonor can happen by omission as well as comission.
If cops were more willing to testify against those cops who violate the law (I've actually heard a cop describe doing so as "snitching"), stuff like this wouldn't have much effect--because we'd know that the cop was history with the department.
My father was an Annapolis graduate. He got taught that he was not supposed to behave dishonorably, nor tolerate those who do--and that silence in the face of said dishonor was just as morally indefensible and just as corrosive to the Navy as the dishonorable act itself. He taught me those virtues. Sorry that my rectitude is so offensive to you.
BTW, it's amazing to watch "conservatives" say that the cop is a mere victim of his environment.