The reason these scumbags do it is to look like heroes.
We had a similar situation here where I live. The Deputy was fired but not thrown in jail a very wealthy local business owner is seeing to it the Deputy is brought to justice.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/30/he-was-jailed-days-having-heroin-it-was-only-detergent-part-wider-scandal/
The wealthy business owner (I will call him Bill) was detained and hot boxed by a different deputy.
Bill saw a bad accident unfold in front of him on the local interstate. He stopped and started helping people who were injured until EMS showed up.
He was actually doing CPR on one victim. Once relieved by EMS he was overwhelmed with emotion. He decided to take out his phone and snap a couple pics of the accident scene to show his wife.
A deputy who had just arrived saw him with his phone out and yelled at him to stop. He tried to explain what he was doing. The deputy would not listen, things went downhill fast.
Bill ended up in handcuffs and tossed in the back seat of amthe deputy's cruiser. Then the deputy reached up front and shut the car off with the windows up, in July in Florida.
Bill was left to sweat his ass off for 30 minutes in the cruiser before he was released.
Bill is a millionaire, the deputy screwed with the wrong citizen. Bill filed a lawsuit and after 2 years of court battles won. Judgement against the sherriff's office was a couple million. Which he donated to a local citizens rights group. He just wanted to teach the local sherriff's department a lesson.
Now he is crusading to get the cop in that article thrown in jail. Where he belongs.
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