This sounds like a really tough cop, picking on 68-year-old women. What is that mental disorder that cops have that they need to feel "superior"?
Power trip. Like some teachers, pastors, priests, doctors etc. Any authority position will attract a number of them.
Small penis?
Barney Fife Syndrome?
I think that would be megalomania.
I expect to get heat from this, but it's been my experience that many policemen are themselves would-be crooks who are too chicken to have actually become criminals. They've essentially self-medicated by becoming the police.
The advent of 'community policing' in the '90s where police recruits are selected primarily from the neighborhoods they lived in has only made it worse -- See the LAPD 'Rampart' scandals, Oakland Police scandal (where some indicted cops remain fugitives to this day), and various other police departments across the US where the officers themselves sell drugs and eliminate rival dealers for their payoff contacts.
With Federal matching funding to provide even remote hayseed law enforcement departments with tactical SWAT gear and battering ram vehicles under the guise of 'Anti-Terror' assistance, you can expect these stories to become a lot more horrid and common as the years go by. Sheriff Taylor from Mayberry RFD has a tactical squad now, folks.
There's an old adage that says 'A New York City conservative is a Democrat who's been mugged'. I think it's time to coin a quirky phrase to distinguish what becomes of a conservative after they've been mugged by a cop.
The best and simplest demeanor to have around law enforcement officers is to look straight ahead and not interact with them for any reason that they don't initiate themselves -- particularly anything that isn't in their line of duty. If they do initiate contact, remain silent. I simply respond in a likewise mindset with any contact with the police that they do with citizens: 'It's safeest to assume that every one of them is a suspect until your judgement proves otherwise'.
I could just about slap my old third grade teacher who admonished us that 'The Police are your friends. If you have any trouble, call a policeman'.
That said, there are fine upstanding policemen who still serve their communities. I have several friends who are policemen in major metropolitan areas. That's who I learned my opinions about policemen from, by the way.
For honking her horn, this woman deserved this? The puke with the badge should take it where the sun doesn't shine, with a cattle prod. I hate our 'Sue Happy' culture, but in this case, I hope she and her husband slap the city and police dept. with a hefty lawsuit!