I’m with you. Based on the experience I’ve had with cops these could have been “cops looking for a fight” and got one, or it could be “belligerent guy with a chip on his shoulder looking for a fight” and the cops were trying to be reasonable but he ramped it up. Or some mixture of both.
There is not enough info to know which.
I would suspect that the cops would be described as “good fathers” too.
Usually, after jury-shopping, the civil case winds up being an "OJ Jury", hell-bent on making the mean ol' "PIGS" pay mega-millions to a ne'r-do-well-antagonistic, but we don't have enough info.
You can bet which side of the issue the State-Run-Media/Liberals will take, though.