It would go a loooooong way if the cops in this country would stop reflexively circling the wagons and actually make it abundantly clear that this kind of thing

It would go a loooooong way if the cops in this country would stop reflexively circling the wagons and actually make it abundantly clear that this kind of thing is unacceptable. Without firings and prosecutions for this kind of thing, the 'bad apples' see that it is in fact acceptable: They just need to say the magic words, that they feared for their lives, just like they were trained to.