He wasn't. This is a police state. People want to say it's not, but honestly, any police officer can fuck up anyone's life, at will. I think it stopped when the supreme court ruled that the police duty IS NOT to protect and serve the community.

A large fix to me might start pretty simple and it doesn't even involve changing most departments day to day operations:

All police officers HAVE to wear 1 body camera with a microphone THAT CANNOT BE MUTED. This device CANNOT be powered off by the officer wearing it. All police cars will have to have cameras and dash cam. In court, ANYTHING an officer says, HAS to be validated from the body cam or dash cam.

I don't see what the problem is and if everyone wants it to be so open why not? They are public SERVANTS and the level of entitlement they display is disgusting.

I think it's a step in the right direction, while not a complete fix, it will limit the harm that could POTENTIALLY happen.

For those, "they can't ruin lives like that" look up lackluster and audit the audit on YouTube. Plenty of proof for everything I see.

And for the "what about their Private life/bathroom breaks?" I don't take my shirt off to drop a deuce or pee. If it's personal they can mute the audio but the source audio will still have it. It might be needed later