This should be a criminal as well as civil. WTF is wrong with police officers? Can we only hire black policemen from now on, so that they wont have tiny penis anger syndrome?
I agree that this sounds bad as an incident.
Most cops aren't insane like this.
Not sure where you're going with the black thing. That cop that shot the unarmed USAF guy in California a couple years back was black. He was the one recorded on camera telling him to 'get up', and when the guy tried to comply, slowly, he was shot for it, multiple times at close range. Cop got off scot-free, with full salary and benefits, and got to enjoy a paid vacation as well.
This to me is the fundamental issue that I think angers so many. It's not that all, or even most cops are bad. It's that the justice that they are supposed to be upholding seems to be frequently pushed aside in pursuit of relentless protection of their own.
This is in stark contrast to military duty, where malfeasance is looked upon as severely dishonorable, and the perps are not coddled and babied in such a manner.
In short, most cops = good, but this thin blue line bullshit needs to go.