Yeah, I did that shit in the 90s. Didn't have a family. Had no fucks to give. Young and dumb. And I would have told you at the time it was dumb shit.
With that said, this cop is an incompetent ass that should be behind bars. So sick of the training meme when it comes to LE. It's a simple fucking job that is 99 percent common sense, not being scary, and having restraint. The mayor could literally deputize people who have above room temp IQs AND aren't scary to do this job. It's that fucking simple. Government propaganda has propped it up as a honorable and 'highly-trained' job.
Problem is these pigs know they can reckless as fuck and live out their warped call of duty fantasies. And best believe that's what it is.
Pigs with sense and experience would have rolled up, told them

"Cut the shit, if we have to come back out, we're doing paperwork!!", and that would have been that.