She was done with her phone call and walking when he approached her and said she had been talking too loud. Can you imagine ending your phone conversation and a cop starting with you by saying that you talked too loud? Tell me you wouldn't be tempted to say, "What?!?!?"
So if a moron honking his horn on a residential street at 3 AM stops when he sees a cop pull up, should the cop just shrug his shoulders and keep on going? I say no - the moron has earned a lecture on proper behavior in public, and I hope he gets it but good.
Cops don't have the time to stand around in the immediate vicinity of petty offenders who stop what they're doing just because the cop showed up - they have other things to do. They earn a tongue-lashing at the very least, and the same thing this woman got if they give more than a certain amount of lip.
Can you imagine ending your phone conversation and a cop starting with you by saying that you talked too loud?
It was hardly a "conversation". According to the story, the woman was screaming obscenities at the top of her lungs.
Tell me you wouldn't be tempted to say, "What?!?!?"
She might not have had to eat tarmac pizza if she had confined her remarks to "What". But the *#&*@, #@*#()@, and *###@)!#$!! comments were a bit much.