The police risked the lives of citizens not involved in the case because any pushback to them challenges their authority and must be dealt with at any costs to others.
The same behavior is exhibited in a numbers states on lockdown.
I got pulled over late one night for “running a red light”.
The cop gave me a ticket and I decided to fight it in court because I knew I did not run the light. I showed up to traffic court and the cop brought the City Prosecutor! The cop testified she was sitting in her patrol car directly in front of me in the opposing lane, had a clear line of sight at the light, and that I entered the intersection after it turned red.
The judge literally told me the testimony of Police officers had more weight in court than the testimony of regular citizens.
Little did she know, I went back and took pictures of the intersection from exactly where she was parked to show you couldn’t see the lights. I also got footage from the corner gas station, whose camera showed her parked where I said she was parked, perpendicular to the light, and not directly in front of the light. The cop was caught directly lying in court and the case was dismissed.
Fast forward a few months and the same cop pulled my wife over (in the same car I was driving before) for “failure to yield to a traffic device”, which just so happened to be the same light. We went to court. The judge looked at me and the cop and said something to the effect of, “I don’t doubt that the defendant committed the infraction but given the history of the two parties, I’m dismissing the case and asking the prosecutor to carefully consider the next time he brings you to court for a traffic violation.”
Shortly thereafter the cop was assigned to the local high school as the resource officer.