A lot of people just don't understand how thoroughly rotted our policing institutions are in the US. In any other scenario if someone pulled something similar they'd be blacklisted from their career for life. But the cop in question got rehired elsewhere after being fired. Corrupt cops never leave the system, they just get shuffled around.
FireBeyond|11 days ago
... and the entities (local, state) who employ an estimated 70% of LEOs around the country are prohibited from using it for hiring decisions based on their CBAs with the local police union.