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.
You can protest that you don't "hate cops" till you're blue in the face: you've convicted this guy without knowing all the evidence, and the only reason that seems clear to me is because you think cops are a cabal of goons, itching to pound suspects (especially black ones) and covering up for each other. That's HATRED. NOTHING you say can convince me otherwise.
Sorry that my rectitude is so offensive to you.
Not your "rectitude," O sanctimonious Poohbah---your willingness to condemn a man and his whole profession over six seconds of (possibly edited) video, and the tendentious, hysterical claims of those with every incentive to destroy not only one cop's career but effective policing in the LA area. That doesn't just "offend" me---it disgusts me.