We aren't given enough information for you to make this charge. This cop may have had a reputation for being a real jerk and the people were sick of him. I don't know and neither do you.
Using your very same logic, the readers don't know that he wasn't a very good cop either. Why read anything into this story? The suspect assaulted and battered the cop. Now he gets to pay the price for having his little fun.
66 posted on 05/21/2005 9:16:13 AM PDT by Tactical