If it is as it appears, any effort on the part of the PD to cover this up should be met with criminal prosecution. I was almost shot by a nervous cop in a traffic stop in Arlington, TX because I did as he said and went into my glove box for proof of insurance. My complaint to his superiors was met with condemnation of me for not appreciating the job our police officers do. A week or two I later to see a news report that the same cop had shot a sleeping man in the front seat of his car. The victim as an illegal and they managed to get away with firing the cop. A year later he was on the news because in his capacity as a Dallas constable serving a summons, he shot a killed a guy who came to his front door ‘brandishing’ a butter knife. Cops do themselves no service by covering for the idiots among them.
It’s the 99% making the 1% look bad.
Amen. The worst thing about bad cops is that a bad cop has exponentially bad consequences -- i.e., a bad cop on a power trip makes criminals out of regular folks and fear, anger, and cynicism in the pubic against ALL cops.