I completely missed the implication that it was out of malice. My naive self wasn't able to, and still can't, imagine an officer of the court deriving pleasure

I completely missed the implication that it was out of malice. My naive self wasn't able to, and still can't, imagine an officer of the court deriving pleasure from humiliating someone like that. I would be so screwed if I ever end up on the wrong end of the American criminal justice system.