Honestly, that guy went to jail for being an asshole more than anything else. If at any point he had attempted to curry favor or at least neutrality, the outco

Honestly, that guy went to jail for being an asshole more than anything else. If at any point he had attempted to curry favor or at least neutrality, the outcome likely would have been far different. As it stands, literally everyone who would have been in a position to be reasonable was someone he'd actively worked at pissing off. Not in the sense of someone he'd pissed off in the past, but as someone he was actively pissing off in conjunction with this issue. The moral of his story is that there's room for aggressive incident reporting, but not if one is going to be an insufferable jerk about it.